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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I remember reading years back that Mississippi is the only state where it's legal for the driver to drink while driving (as long as they keep it below 0.08). Multiple defenders on Reddit said its safe because its still below the legal limit.

Couldnt be related, could it? Nahhh

https://dui.drivinglaws.org/resources/can-a-passenger-drink-alcohol.htm

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know much about Mississippi, but I know that in neighboring Louisiana, there are drive-through daiquiri places.

the fine print of the law says that the open container law is not applicable to containers with frozen alcoholic beverage where the lid is intact and no straw is protruding through the lid.

In most cases, daiquiris adhere to the “tape rule.” Most daiquiri shops will put a piece of tape over the straw hold on the lid. If this tape is removed or broken then the drink is considered an open container.

So a piece of tape counts as a "seal." They're not even trying.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, a piece of tape. Tape can definitely not be lifted and replaced, right?

I took a quick looks and seems like Mississippi has many drive through daiquiris bars also.

https://m.yelp.com/search?cflt=drivethrubars&find_loc=Gulfport%2C+MS

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

21 Mississippi, 22 Mississippi...

Count van Count

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

getting a drivers license in mississippi is basically show up to the DMV, suck a cock and drive home or what?

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Mississippi has drive-through combo shops: liquor store / DMV / KFC.

Saves time on your way to and home from church.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (15 children)

America is more in the middle of the road when you look at the whole globe, and don’t just select a few counties with lower death rates.

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/estimated-road-traffic-death-rate-(per-100-000-population)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

Africa is currently the reigning champ for vehicle related deaths.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

yes but whole africa is developing nations with ultra bad infrastructure like roads and intersections. You should be comparing USA to peering nations, like western europe or countries of the commonwealth. Unless you admit that USA is also third world shit hole

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[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Took a closer look to see if I was surprised by any correlation about poverty, and browsed away with the belief that the south is still a shithole... which might still correlate with poverty. I think kansas/oregon is the first entry that wouldn't be 'south.'

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Drinkin' beers an' drivin' yer trukk is a highly traditional pastime in the US deep south. Typically done in the middle of the night, in my experience, for the maximum probability of contacting the local wildlife or making friends at high speed with a tree.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

New Jersey is too low. Serious doubts about the validity of this table.

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago

It's comparing against total population, not driving population, so any amount of mass transit will greatly reduce this number

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 week ago

Probably not. The state has been implementing Vision Zero as a statewide program along with several cities.

The two major highways have lower than average accidents due to design.

One of the state's signature traffic configurations, the Jersey Jughandle, eliminates left turn movements on older highways, a major source of accidents.

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[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The south is killing it!

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where are Idaho, Wyoming and Montana?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There are only 36 states represented here by my count. It says "major" states, whatever that means. But 14 in total are missing either because of their smaller populations, or because their fatality rate is low enough that they would fall off the right hand side of the chart and thus wouldn't fit the "America Drivers Bad" narrative quietly being implied, here.

Edit: I looked up the numbers for my state in the same year (and no, I'm not telling the public which one). We would be at 1.2 on this chart if my math is correct, which is well below even the shortest bar for Victoria, there.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I decided to look and found that this metric is almost always measured by vehicle distance travelled rather than by population. Basically the graph OP shared is useless and meant to support a narrative, as you stated.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does that mean that Canadians in Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario simply don't drive long distances inside their provinces? That doesn't track with what I've seen when visiting all three provinces.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Calgary relatives: "oh I'm just going to zip up to Edmonton for the day" or go for a coffee 40km to the other side of town or just do the daily 130km commute etc.

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[–] goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'd like to see the % of trucks vs cars for each location.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Not surprised by SC, as a Canadian I had one accident in 40 years of driving, it was in SC, caused by a 17yo girl driving an old suburban or something.

[–] dastechniker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

SOUTH CAROLINA #2!!!! 🥳🥳🎉🎊🎉🎉🎊🍻🥳🎉🎉🪅

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it the issue of safety standards?

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm guessing there is some correlation to total miles(/km) driven. Not all of it, but some. If people in one location drive drastically less distance annually, I'd expect their numbers to show drastically lower on the chart, as well.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I am not convinced with Australia and Canada being much better? It would make sense if you were comparing to Europe.

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