By Steve Sailer
07/25/2013
Brian Palmer in Slate tries to rate the cities with the worst drivers, using four measures. Here’s his synthetic bottom 5:
And now, America, on to the cities with your worst drivers.
No. 5: Baltimore. Baltimoreans just can’t keep from running into each other. They were outside the top 10 in fatalities, DWI deaths, and pedestrian strikes, but their rate of collision couldn’t keep them out of the top five overall.
No. 4: Tampa, Fla. Tampa doesn’t do any single thing terribly, but it is consistently poor: 18th worst in years between accidents, fifth in traffic fatalities, tied for 11th in DWI fatalities, and 10th in pedestrian strikes. If the city had managed to get outside the bottom half in any individual category, Tampa residents might have avoided this distinction.
No. 3: Hialeah. The drivers of Hialeah get into a middling number of accidents, ranking 11th among the 39 candidates. But when they hit someone, they really mean it. The city finished third for fatalities. They also have a terrifying tendency to hit pedestrians.
Hialeah is the hometown of Nestor Camacho in Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood, a book that begins with Yale man Edward T. Topping IV creeping around a Miami parking lot in his wife’s environmentally friendly electric car looking for a parking place, only to have a Cubana in a Ferrari steal the one open space by backing up into it at 35 mph.
No. 2: Philadelphia. Drivers in the city of brotherly love enjoy a good love tap behind the wheel. Second-places finishes in collisions and pedestrian strikes overwhelm their semi-respectable 16th-place ranking in DWI deaths.
No. 1: Miami. And it’s not even close. First in automotive fatalities, first in pedestrian strikes, first in the obscenity-laced tirades of their fellow drivers.
Just like Dave Barry always said about Miami drivers.
So, three of the most Cuban towns in the country — Miami, Hialeah, and Tampa — are in the top 5.
Interesting that the GOP leadership is set on turning the steering of the ship of state over to Cubans to win the votes of Mexicans.
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