Hey welcome back to the channel everyone, my name is Briggs and I never text and
drive. Have you ever noticed that every couple of years they have to tell us
something new we shouldn't be doing while driving I mean they're obvious but
they still gotta tell us anyway don't drink and drive don't be a distracted
driver don't get buzzed and drive don't text while driving don't put on clown
makeup while driving now that one they didn't tell us not to but it's something
I witnessed one time happened on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles not too far from
the old Hollywood Park the dude caught me looking at him and started yelling
obscenities at me he's got half clown makeup on these screaming things at me
so of course I have to roll down my window find out what he's talking about
I listened for a minute then I just yelled back you were the worst party
clown ever and you're a very unsafe driver he yelled back I would love to
run you over 38 of my closest friends in the car
I laughed he flipped me off and he kept driving putting on makeup my point is
this around 40,000 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes in the United
States just last year 2018 well fatal accidents have become far less common in
the United States over the last few decades thanks to improvements and
regulations and safety features they remain one of the leading causes of
death particularly for younger people the likelihood of dying from a car crash
depends on a variety of things including seatbelt use speed limits drunk driving
rates distracted driver rates and weather of course the type of roads and
the condition of the roads in any given state also plays a major role in whether
a crash is going to make you late for work or make you dead let's find out
what states have better odds of killing you while you're out for a Sunday Drive
number ten Kentucky now I don't want to make it sound like Kentucky is kind of
slowing backwoods but really they are just three weeks ago Kentucky
legislators filed two bills that would ban the use of cell phones and other
electronic devices while driving most states have had this in place for
about a decade Kentucky felt that the jury was still out on if watching videos
texting friends and taking pictures for your Instagram while doing 110 miles an
hour was dumb and dangerous according to the 2018 Kentucky State Police data
distraction cell phone use and being a dumbass caused more than 57,000 crashes
and about 150 deaths in the state of Kentucky that compares to just over
5,000 crashes and 134 deaths being blamed on alcohol or drugs the 2018
motor vehicle fatalities was seven hundred and twenty one people lost their
life on Kentucky roads the motor vehicle fatalities per 100,000 residents is 16
point one four
number nine Arkansas I think the word infrastructure to most people implies
building new highways or bridges in some distant part of the United States with
federal tax dollars but actually it has to do with your everyday roads like in
front of your house that needs to be fixed to people never see damaged roads
as part of the infrastructure they're talking about on the news they just
think it's the roads need to prepare infrastructures bridges and tunnels
anyway one of the biggest complaints from Arkansas drivers is the condition
of the roads and how they never get fixed
legislators gathered in Little Rock for the 2019 legislative session they were
trying to figure out how much more money Arkansas needs to be spending on the
roads and where that money should come from as all legislators do they suggest
that they tax the hell out of the people they can't help it it's written in their
DNA sort of like how monkeys sniff each others butts hey what is the deal with
that one that has that red thing sticking out of their backside is that
there to entice the ladies I'm talking about baboons not politicians it's
always weird anyway in 2018 the motor vehicle fatalities were 489 in the state
of Arkansas motor vehicle fatalities per 100,000 residents was 16 point two three
number eight West Virginia West Virginia's had a heap of issues over the
last decade or so the opioid crisis coal industries drastic slowdown and a
terrible economy so Auto fatalities are a little trivial compared to the other
things they've got going on there the good thing about West Virginia is
the people they sort of make all the bad go away but they do have the second
worse infrastructure in the country bad roads sketchy bridges and missing
guardrails which is always good to hear in a place that's known for its
mountains its nickname is the mountain State and they have missing guardrails
all over the place who's making the decisions in this state the economy is
so bad I am sure somebody's actually stealing the guardrails and taking them
in for the recycle just to make a buck in 2018 the motor vehicle fatalities
were 295 in the state of West Virginia and that's sixteen point three four for
every hundred thousand residents
number seven Louisiana Louisiana is a state that has a pros and cons lists so
lopsided it's sort of like the one you'd have if you made one about the Manson
family they're good friends they're loyal but
they also you get the idea Louisiana had three of the cities on the
murder Capitol list for 2018 they are also one of the worst in poverty and is
considered to be one of the most corrupt in the country in other words most of
you should have already decided not to leave the airport if you have let's say
a 12 hour layover and New Orleans or something like that the roads of the
Pelican state aren't dangerous if you've ever driven around New Orleans
congratulations you now know what it's like to drive up a rocky riverbed in a
Humvee I've done both very similar Louisiana had 777 motor vehicle
fatalities in 2018 giving them a 16 point six seven auto fatality rate
number six Montana Montana is known for its dangerous roads the Beartooth
Highway is a sixty eight point seven mile stretch along u.s. highway 212
between Red Lodge and Cooke City the stretch of road reaches a maximum height
of ten thousand nine hundred and forty seven feet this one is dangerous on a
good weather day hairpin turns steep drops are the obvious dangers on this
road but when you add snowdrifts the pucker factor gets to about ten then
there's us Route two stretching from Butte to Three Forks in southern Montana
US Route two has more fatal crashes than any other road in Montana then of course
there's in this the real name of the road going into the Sun Road is one of
Montana's most scenic drives it's a 50 mile stretch of road that crosses
Glacier National Park and is extremely elevated windy and narrow you look over
the side and it's just a straight drop and it's not even those good guardrails
in most places it's just like some bricks they stacked up may be cemented
them in it's scary in 2018 Montana's motor vehicle fatalities was 182 they
don't have a lot of people in this state I know that seems low compared to some
of the other ones on this but they don't have a lot people so their per capita is
17 point one three for every 100,000 residents will die on the roads in
Montana this year
number five New Mexico New Mexico has great sunsets after that you have to
switch over to the negative side of the New Mexico pro and con list their roads
are on the negative side without a doubt a study by geotab looked at crash data
from 2008 to 2018 from the National Highway Traffic and Safety
Administration the studies showed that New Mexico has an average of 34 crashes
a year on interstate 40 interstate 40 is pretty much a straight road through the
entire state and stop typing it gets a bit curvy around Albuquerque
I know 80% of the road is straight I think most fatalities can be attributed
to speeding most people floor it when they realize they're in the state of New
Mexico want to get out as quick as they can in 2018
they had 387 motor vehicle fatalities they don't have a lot of people so their
fatality per 100,000 was eighteen point four seven
number four Wyoming Wyoming there's a lot like Montana when it comes to
dangerous roads and conditions the people I wouldn't say are bad drivers
here they just have really crappy weather and road conditions and they
also hate it when you call it why oh me I have a friend that lives in the cowboy
state and he told me before I made my first wyoming video that if you want to
get the local stirred up call it why oh me oh man was he right the comments
section was hysterical oh it was great anyway like I said the roads are very
similar to Montana they even have one of the most dangerous stretches of road in
the country IAT Interstate 80 runs the width of the state from Pine Bluff to
Evanston and is part of the Oregon Trail it also sees an average of 20 deaths a
year on this stretch of road by itself in 2018 the motor vehicle fatalities in
the entire state of Wyoming was a hundred and eleven that's not terrible
amount but they also don't have a lot of people living here that gives them a
vehicle fatality rate of nineteen point two one that's pretty high number for
such a small population
number three Alabama just about anyone that drives in Alabama has an opinion on
what should be considered the worst road in the state there's one Alabama Highway
however that is so bad that it's been named on the list of the worst highways
in the world not just the United States the world that road is highway 431 the
highway stretches from Tennessee and into Alabama through much of the eastern
section of the state the issue with this stretch of highway includes poor
visibility high speeds and sudden changes in the number of lanes that's
always great when you're you know whipping around a corner and poor
visibility else and you're down two lanes that's always a good feeling
nicknamed the highway to hell US Route 431 running through Alabama is
littered with crosses in memory of all the life's that had been lost in this
deadly section of road they had 948 Auto fatalities in the entire state of
Alabama in 2018 giving them a nineteen point three nine motor fatality rate
that's pretty high but makes sense we're getting towards the end and you know
it's getting worse as we go so yeah there's that
number two South Carolina the geotab study ranks us 17 as South Carolina's
most dangerous highway for summertime travel and pretty much any season travel
from 2015 to 2018 97 deaths occurred during the summer months on us 17 this
stretch of road is known as the coastal highway South Carolina has so many more
roads that could be on a bad road list it's crazy
Greenville is dangerous on the side streets these people drive like they're
the only ones on the road like they haven't seen anyone for three days and
they've just been driving they change lanes without blinker so to tell you the
truth I get the feeling they rarely look out their side mirrors or their windows
while they're driving it's it's weird like New Orleans you drive down the road
thinking why is it like this does the state have some kind of strange student
loan debt and they can't afford anything else but Top Ramen it's really weird
South Carolina's got some really bad roads and horrible drivers in 2018
they had 1034 motor vehicle fatalities giving South Carolina a twenty point
three four fatality rate
and number one Mississippi congratulations Mississippi you came in
as the worst again glad to see things are back to normal
a little weird for a while there we had the strange lil stretch where you
weren't even in the top ten for worst list weird anyway us 61 is bad it is
considered one of the worst highways in the nation on average they see seventeen
fatalities a year on just this stretch of highway they had a study in the
findings said that Mississippi had the third worst country roads among all 50
states Mississippi also boasts that 25% of
those rural roads are in what is considered to be very poor condition so
step up from poor conditions anyway you know there's nothing worse than going
down a bumpy country road with a trunk full of shine you just brought up from
the still you know that's uh that's like a tragedy in Mississippi Mississippi had
633 motor vehicle fatalities in 2018 giving them a twenty one point two zero
fatality rate for the year 2018
all right so that is my top ten states with the worst roads in the country I
hope you guys got some information out of it hope it was entertaining stay off
these roads they're pretty bad I would anyway don't forget all the
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