How is it that WA has one of the lowest rates of traffic deaths among the states?
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state
Two reasons... #1 poor information gathering, and statistical anomalies... if you looked at the number of accidents per miles traveled it would be one of the very worst places. #2 90% of the people in Washington live in Western Washington where the weather is just crappy enough to keep most of the people to depressed to bother going for a car ride.
“How is it that WA has one of the lowest rates of traffic deaths among the states?”
It’s hard to get injured when the cars are travelling around 10 miles an hour because the roads system here are so screwed up and traffic is moving at the speed of smell.
And the eastern part of the state is all wide open roadways and has a very small amount of cars to hit each other. Just to give you an idea, we have a county in Seattle whose vote counters the rest of the entire state. If King County and small parts of Pierce County (Tacoma) vote a way, it is passed, period.
So the I-5 corridor, always bumper to bumper, won’t cause accidents. They don’t travel fast enough to be that much of a reaction time. And construction adds to it. We have a highway off I-5 called 405 at the rentoin curves that has been under construction since 1956.
Are the roads screwed up? You tell me. But it won’t cause accidents as pedestrians go faster in many cases. They don’t need their toll roads, just charge for parking.
rwood