Allstate Study Finds Nashville Ranks 35th in Safe Driving

According to an Allstate study, Nashville has safer drivers than 165 of the biggest cities in the country.  The study ranked Nashville as the 35th for safe driving when compared to 200 of the biggest U.S. cities.  The ranking is based on the average number of years between crashes.

The list generated by Allstate, a large insurance company, shows that Nashville drivers on average, have about 10.6 years between accidents, based on insurance claims from 2006 to 2007.  However, it seems that drivers are getting in more Nashville car accidents, as the number of years between collisions used to be 11.4 years.

Another study was conducted by Allstate examining accidents involving teen drivers.  Tennessee ranked sixth in the country for traffic fatalities and the Nashville area ranked fourth among 50 metropolitan regions.

According to Elizabeth Hosmer, fiscal and marketing administrator at the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, Tennessee is doing everything it can to reach out to teenage drivers.  She said, “a lot of it’s speed, and their driving skills aren’t as good as they should be.  Sometimes a death has to occur before it gets their attention, and that’s not the way it should be.”

The Allstate study ranked Chattanooga third, Knoxville fifth and Memphis 48th when it came to safe driving.

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