NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 32,000 Americans are involved in traffic accidents every year. If you want to avoid joining them, you might want to take a look at which city you live in.
For the past seven years, car insurer AllState has looked at claims data for the 200 largest cities in America to see which cities have the fewest car accidents per capita. The latest results were released Thursday, and the safest driving city in America for the second year in a row was Fort Collins, Colo. The average driver in the city of 138,000 gets into a car accident just once every 14 years, a full 26% better than the national average. (The average American driver gets into an accident about once a decade.)
The average driver gets into an accident about once a decade. In some cities, your chances of being in a fender-bender are a lot higher.
But not every city is such a peaceful place to go for a drive. Here are the 10 cities that brought up the bottom of the list by contributing more car accidents than any one metro areas. Each city is accompanied by its estimated population, along with how often its average driver gets into an accident and how much more likely a driver is to get into an accident, as compared with the national average.
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