Lois M. Collins covers policy and research impacting families for the Deseret News.
SALT LAKE CITY — If you've been muttering to yourself about the car behind you swerving into the lane where you signaled you want to go, not being allowed to merge into traffic from an onramp or the erratic speed bursts and brake slams of the driver in the truck right ahead of you, take a deep breath.
It could be a lot worse. You could live in South Carolina or Mississippi, where a new study reports that drivers are not as courteous or friendly as they are in the Beehive State.In fact, not to toot our own horn, but an analysis of multiple factors related to driving by Conboy Law Injury & Medical Malpractice Lawyers found Utah drivers are pretty chill and mostly friendly. Utah ranks No. 7 in terms of road "ragelessness."Idaho got top honors in the study, which created a score based on courteous drivers survey data, driving under the influence arrests and the number of fatal crashes in a five-year period per million people. Idaho's composite score was 83.76, compared to Utah's 72.65. The report hailed our friend to the north for low aggression, regular use of turn signals and letting cars get in front in heavy traffic. Idaho ranks in the middle, though, for fatal vehicle crashes, with 527 per million people over a five-year period."As 82% of Americans committed an act of road rage in the past year, aggressive driving has become a defining characteristic of American roads. By analyzing the driver behavior and car accident statistics across the U.S.," the law firm said that it "identified the states with the friendliest drivers."Said Tatiana Boohoff, the firm's managing partner, "Driver behavior rankings expose something deeper than just traffic patterns. They reveal the social fabric of different regions and how community values translate into everyday interactions. The surprising thing about driver friendliness is that it often inversely correlates with economic urgency, suggesting that places where people aren't constantly rushing to maximize productivity tend to produce more courteous road behavior."Top 10 for friendly driving Idaho was the only state with a score above 80. It scored nine points higher than Hawaii. Hawaii has the second-lowest rate of fatal crashes, but the DUI arrest rate was 1,000 higher than Idaho's. Alaska drivers were slightly more courteous than those in Hawaii, but the DUI arrest rate and fatal accident rate were both slightly higher than those in the Aloha State. Washington has fewer DUI a
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