spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoThe Sunshine State is #1 in fatal crashes at intersections, with more than three times as many deadly intersections (257) as the next highest state, Arizona (82)stacker.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe Sunshine State is #1 in fatal crashes at intersections, with more than three times as many deadly intersections (257) as the next highest state, Arizona (82)stacker.comspiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoPlotting anything by absolute numbers instead of per capita basically gives you a population map.
minus-squareFuredadmins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoIf that was true it would be California as the leader and not by nearly the magnitude shown.
minus-squaretb_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoAnd Arizona would be nowhere near second, as the 14th most populated state.
minus-squaretb_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months agoAnd Arizona would be nowhere near second, as the 14th most populated state. As per Wikipedia, Florida: 22,610,726 Arizona: 7,431,344 The deadly intersection rate in those two states in particular is roughly the same, coincidentally. 22.61 / 7.42 = 3.04 257 / 82 = 3.13
Plotting anything by absolute numbers instead of per capita basically gives you a population map.
If that was true it would be California as the leader and not by nearly the magnitude shown.
And Arizona would be nowhere near second, as the 14th most populated state.
And Arizona would be nowhere near second, as the 14th most populated state.
As per Wikipedia,
The deadly intersection rate in those two states in particular is roughly the same, coincidentally.