Louisiana Named the Worst State for Street Rage

In keeping with the 2025 Journey Vacationer survey, greater than 75 p.c of American respondents mentioned they plan to take a highway journey this summer season. It’s, in spite of everything, a time-honored custom. However anybody hoping to hit the open highway must know one factor: some drivers simply aren’t very good, particularly in sure states.

On Could 1, Client Affairs launched its record of the states with the worst highway rage, giving would-be highway trippers a heads up on the place they need to be additional cautious. 

It recognized the states with the worst highway rage by “analyzing knowledge on deadly crashes involving careless or reckless driving, violations for harmful driving, and site visitors incidents involving gun violence,” the report said about its methodology. And after wanting on the knowledge, it named Louisiana the state with the very best highway rage, a dishonor it has obtained for 2 years in a row. 

“Practically 60 p.c of the state’s deadly crashes and site visitors deaths had been linked to aggressive or careless driving, the very best charges within the nation,” the findings said. “Louisiana additionally has the very best total charges of deadly crashes and deaths involving aggressive or careless driving per 100,000 individuals. Moreover, it has the second-highest fee of site visitors violations for aggressive or careless driving or rushing.” 

This careless driving may also include critical penalties (moreover the potential of injuring your self or others), together with as much as 90 days in jail for first-time offenders charged with “reckless driving” and as much as six months in jail for second-time offenders, Client Affairs reported. 

Although it is not the one state the place drivers want to search out a bit of zen. 

New Mexico took the No. 2 spot “not least due to its comparatively excessive fee of site visitors incidents involving gun violence, which is sort of 4 instances the nationwide fee,” the findings said. “Sadly, this development additionally aligns with the state’s basic gun violence charges: Everytown for Gun Security, a gun violence prevention group, notes that New Mexico’s gun violence fee is sort of double the nationwide common.” 

Rounding out the highest three offenders is Colorado, which has the very best variety of violations for aggressive or careless driving or rushing per 100,000 individuals, the findings revealed, including that that is “over eight instances the nationwide common. That helps clarify how Colorado climbed one spot in our rating, shifting up from fourth place final 12 months.” 

Arkansas and Montana rounded out the highest 5, whereas Maine was named the calmest of all of the states within the nation for driving.

See your complete record so that you’re totally ready on your subsequent highway journey at consumeraffairs.com.