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Philly drivers are a wreck, insurer says
Funky figures?
We're No. 1, yo.
Unfortunately, not just in baseball. Philadelphia is also home to the worst drivers among the country's top 10 cities, according to the 2009 "Allstate America's Best Drivers Report."
And we ranked 6th overall among 200 U.S. cities, if you're apt to call Sioux Falls, S.D., a "city."
Turns out, the largest city in South Dakota (estimated 2009 pop. 151,505) has plenty of awesome motorists driving through its 68.9 square miles.
Sioux Falls drivers have a negative 26.1 percent chance of having an accident (translation: don't count on it) and they average 13.5 years between accidents, according to the Allstate list.
Philly is way different, the report says. The city is packed with 1.5 million citizens over an area of 135 square miles. In other words, Sioux Falls has a 10th of the population living in half the size of Philadelphia.
Drivers here, blaring music and all, have a 57.1 percent chance of screwing up and getting into vehicle dustups, according to the report. And the average number of years between accidents for Philly motorists is a low 6.4 years.
But hold it right there, Allstate.
Your "complete national list" is based on accidents involving only Allstate motorists and excludes collisions outside of the insurance company. Or those not insured at all.
"I have no idea if that [the report] is representative of Philadelphia," said Jenny Robinson, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. "It's just not comparing apples to apples."
Robinson declined to comment further on the report because she said that she was unfamiliar with Allstate's methodology process.
Williams pretty much broke it down in defense of Philly drivers:
"The conditions of roadway driving on the Schuylkill Expressway might be different than driving on an eight-lane highway in Texas."
So there. *
