PROVIDENCE – Both Providence and Boston sit near the bottom of the rankings of Allstate Insurance Co.’s America’s Best Drivers Report 2017.
Providence ranks No. 194 of 200 cities graded in the report, while Boston sits last. Neither city has moved since Allstate’s 2016 rankings. It may come as small solace that when adjusted for population density, Providence rises one peg in the survey, to No. 193.
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According to the report, the relative claim likelihood is 75.8 percent greater than the national average, with the average time between claims being 5.7 years (the average for the United States is once every 10 years). And finally, the study found that drivers in Providence experienced a “hard-braking” event 19.8 times every 1,000 miles.
Boston fared even worse. The average number of years between claims in Beantown is 3.6 years. The relative claim likelihood in Boston compared to the national average is 179.6 percent, with 21.4 hard-braking incidents per 1,000 miles.
Kansas City ranked No. 1 in the report, with a 14.9 year average between claims, a -32.8 percent relative claim likelihood compared to the national average, and 9.9 hard-braking events per 1,000 miles. Kansas City moved up one spot this year to dethrone Brownsville, Texas, as the nation’s safest driving city.
Chris Bergenheim is the PBN web editor.
