Madison Wisconsin Is Safest City for Drivers

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Madison Wisconsin Is Safest City for Drivers

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How does one measure the safest city for drivers? Accidents? Accidents in which someone gets hurt? Car accident fatalities. Insurance claims? Allstate has come up with a measure that suits an insurance company. Based on is analysis, Madison Wisconsin is the safest city for drivers.

Allstate’s measure:

The Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report tabulates property damage frequency of Allstate insured drivers from 2013-2014. The report analyzes the 200 largest cities from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Estimates of the Population for Incorporated Places over 50,000, measured for 2014 as of July 1, 2015. In prior years, neighboring cities that shared zip codes also shared rankings. This only impacted a minimal number of cities; however, since 2014, the report used geolocation to increase accuracy and there are no longer shared rankings. U.S. Census Bureau estimates of land area were combined with population estimates to determine population density. The Allstate Best Drivers Report is produced solely to boost the country’s discussion about safe driving and to increase awareness of the importance of being safe and attentive behind the wheel. The report is not used to determine auto insurance rates.

The Census is almost always a good place to start for studies about what people in America do.

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And, the rankings:

The 10 safest-driving cities, when factoring auto property damage claims with population density, are:
Safest Drivers Rank with Population Density
1. Madison, Wis.
2. Brownsville, Texas
3. Boise, Idaho
4. New York, N.Y.
5. Milwaukee, Wis.
6. Wichita, Kansas
7. Hialeah, Fla.
8. McAllen, Texas
9. Olathe, Kan.
10. Lincoln, Neb.

You’re in good hands with Allstate, at least as fair as driving safety as measured by an insurance company is concerned.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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