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Website: South Carolina is One of the Most Dangerous States to Drive in at Night
Personal injury attorneys Zanes Law released a report on states with the highest rate of accidental deaths and they ranked South Carolina as having the 5th highest rate in the country.
To come up with the ranking, the website analyzed fatal crash data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from 2017 and 2021 to see which state had the highest percentage of fatal crashes that occurred at night.
Here’s the 10 Most Dangerous States to Drive in at Night:
| Rank | State | Daytime | Nighttime | Unknown | Total | % of fatal crashes at night |
| 1 | Hawaii | 188 | 285 | 10 | 483 | 59.01% |
| 2 | California | 7,201 | 10,578 | 358 | 18,137 | 58.32% |
| 3 | Florida | 6,395 | 8,944 | 3 | 15,342 | 58.30% |
| 4 | Texas | 7,460 | 10,087 | 2 | 17,549 | 57.48% |
| 5 | South Carolina | 2,118 | 2,779 | 0 | 4,897 | 56.75% |
| 6 | Maryland | 1,120 | 1,447 | 0 | 2,567 | 56.37% |
| 7 | Connecticut | 570 | 749 | 19 | 1,338 | 55.98% |
| 8 | Rhode Island | 138 | 174 | 1 | 313 | 55.59% |
| 9 | Louisiana | 1,641 | 2,085 | 28 | 3,754 | 55.54% |
| 10 | New Jersey | 1,301 | 1,556 | 0 | 2,857 | 54.46% |
They found that Hawaii is statistically the most dangerous state to drive at night. There were a total of 483 fatal crashes in the state in the five year period, with 285 of these at night, which is a percentage of 59.01%, the highest of any US state.
South Carolina experienced 2,779 nighttime crashes, which makes up 56.75% of the 4,897 recorded total, giving it the fifth-place position.
Statistically, the safest state to drive in at night is Vermont; this is because only 109, or 37.07%, of the 294 fatal crashes recorded between 2017 and 2021 occurred at night.
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