The Columbus Dispatch

This city has the most rude drivers in Ohio, and a Ky. city ranks the kindest

- Emily Deletter

A recent report ranked cities around the U.S. with the rudest drivers, and Ohio’s “rudest” city may surprise you.

In the report compiled by insurance comparison website Insurify, cities were ranked based on the greatest share of drivers with one or more of the following violations on record: failure to yield, failure to stop, improper backing, passing where prohibited, tailgating, street racing or a hit-and-run.

In Ohio, Dayton was ranked the city with the rudest drivers, with 40.78 per 1,000 drivers cited for rude behavior, making it 16% ruder than the state average.

In total, 869 cities across the country were surveyed via a database of over four million car insurance applicatio­ns, and Insurify found that 22.65 out of every 1,000 drivers have been cited for one or more “rude infraction­s.”

The city ranked the overall “rudest” based on the above driving infraction­s was Rancho Cordova, California, where the “rudeness” rate exceeds the national average by 65%.

The kindest? Somerset, Kentucky, with a rude driving rate 93% lower than the average.

Insurify noted that failure-to-stop driving violations at either a stop sign or red light are the most common, and the average rate in cities across the U.S. is 14.56 per 1,000 drivers.

The “rudest” drivers in Indiana were in Hammond, with 31.07 per 1,000 drivers, which is 34% ruder than the state average, and in Kentucky, Frankfort clinched the rudest spot, with 27.64 per 1,000 drivers, which is 61% ruder than the state average.

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