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The Sunshine State is #1 in fatal crashes at intersections, with more than three times as many deadly intersections (257) as the next highest state, Arizona (82)

stacker.com The deadliest intersections in America, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

The law firm of Piasta Walker Hagenbush LLC analyzed more than 18 years of crash reporting data from NHTSA's

Florida - The Sunshine State @lemmy.world

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Florida. The Sunshine State is Florida for those who don’t know, don’t care, or hate it when authors use nicknames for some proper nouns and actual names for other things in the same category.
It’s petty, I know, but just use the words we all know for fuck’s sake.
Edit: I’m not calling out the OP (thanks for sharing this!), these words that bother me appear in the text of the study.
- Yeah I was guessing California..
  
  Nah, we're the Golden State.
- Kinda expected Texas, but that works too
  
  They're the Lone Star state, since they're the only state with a standing legal option to split into five separate states whenever they want.
  Lots of logical state nicknames out there.
- I thought florida was, much to the amusement and dismay of people with brains in their heads, as the "education state" now?
  also doesnt arizona get more sunshine than any other state or something like that?
  State nicknames are stupid. IL is "land of lincoln" but he was born in kentucky 🤦‍♂️

Plotting anything by absolute numbers instead of per capita basically gives you a population map.
- If that was true it would be California as the leader and not by nearly the magnitude shown.
  
  And Arizona would be nowhere near second, as the 14th most populated state.

Roundabouts are just too complicated for Floridians to grasp
- To be fair, I hate full 2 lane roundabouts. The right lane should be for immediate turn-offs only. Luckily the roundabouts in my area are made so the right lane splits off and only go to the next turn-off.
  
  Right lane for the first or second exits. Left lane for the second or third exit (or reverse direction). Works great, I used to drive through a big one on a highway and a little one in the main intersection in town all the time.
- Roundabouts weren’t taught or tested for in the US when people over 50 originally learned to drive. It’s not surprising they don’t know how to deal with them.
  
  It's an incredibly simple concept, though
  I wasn't taught about them in drivers ed either, but the first time I saw one it was quite clear what to do
  
  Being confused once is fine but some people can’t learn.
- Those roundabouts are causin’ all these tornaders! /s
- It's almost like just plopping them into places with people that have never even seen them isn't a great idea. My city randomly has a couple in busy spots and it's always a shitshow with people coming across them unexpectedly. They did nothing to prepare people for dealing with them they just built them in 🙄
  
  Roundabouts are on the driving test, and people are expected to keep up with changes in local law. Do a tiny bit of due diligence and don't blame the people building objectively safer intersections.
  
  I think that you’ve that shown that a lot of people shouldn’t drive.

Guessing people too old to be driving + Florida Man
- "It takes two bad drivers to cause an accident." The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald 1925
- Don't forget the squids on motorcycles that don't have any twisties to ride on, so they are stuck on dangerous stroads

What if we, and hear me out here... Let it sink into the ocean like it's been trying to do for generations now? 🤌🏼

I've never had a harder time making a left than in this stupid fucking state.

It's because nobody understands that right turn on red means that you still have to stop and wait for painting traffic to clear before entering the intersection.
- And blame it all on (insert northeastern state name here, preferably New York)
  
  Actually no, it's more the permanent residents that do that. The northeastern residents are far more likely to cause an accident while trying to merge because they have very different merge laws and think that traffic has to let them merge. And I think most of the Canadians follow the speed limit signs using km/h instead of mph.

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