Worcester Ranked Least Safe Driving City in America by Allstate

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
GoLocalWorcester Auto Team

Worcester is the most accident-prone city in America when it comes to vehicular accidents, according to a new report from Allstate Insurance Company.

The 10th Annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” examined the top 200 metropolitan cities in America to determine each city’s car collision frequency. Worcester drivers on average are involved in a collision every 4.3 years, contrasting the safest city – Fort Collins, Colorado – where drivers are involved in a collision every 14.2 years on average.

"A big part of our job at Allstate is to help our customers prevent bad things from happening. With that in mind, our actuaries reviewed millions of records to develop this year's report which presents new data to equip them with better driving awareness tools," said Mike Roche, executive vice president of claims, Allstate. "Allstate is showing drivers that factors like population, a city's density and precipitation may contribute to their driving safety to reveal important lessons on the road."     

This is the first year that the Allstate report has examined Worcester. When looking at the four categories that Allstate examined – population, city density, rain and snow, and all conditions, Worcester placed last in each.

Worcester was not the only New England city to fair poorly in this year’s report, as Boston, Massachusetts (2nd), Springfield, Massachusetts (4th), Providence, Rhode Island (5th), and New Haven, Connecticut (10th), all placed in the top ten worst cities. The only other city in New England that was ranked – Bridgeport, Connecticut - ranked as the 16th worst city.