These 10 Counties In Tennessee Have The Worst Drivers In The State
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Meghan Kraft
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Everyone has a bad driving day. Sometimes the baby is screaming in the backseat, your lipstick is smudged or your boss just won’t stop calling. Still, the off/bad day just seems to keep happening in these lovely Tennessee Counties. 2013 data has locked these counties in with the worst deadly crash rates in the state. Gulp. Curious? Take a look at our list, or feel free to compare with state findings right over here.
Numbers are all calculated by deaths by motor vehicles with rates per 100,000.
It's Houston County that brings us in with a rate of 36.2 accidents per 100,000 folk.
Cannon comes in close, with 36.3.
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There's a slight jump here, but not by much. Perry County is just a little more unsafe, we suppose?
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It only takes us to number seven to get Chester County rounding us into the forties.
Dekalb struggles into sixth place with a rate of 41.7 accidents per 100,000 drivers.
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Warren isn't TOO much worse, don't you think?
It's the last for the early forties, here in Meigs County.
There's a significant jump up to Polk's rate in the late forties.
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Whoa, Benton. We're almost at fifty. Settle down, here.
Grundy is by far the worst driving county, coming in quite solidly at 66.8 deadly accidents per 100,000.
Were you surprised by any of these numbers? Let us know in the comments below!
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