Tulsa: It’s deadly

This is interesting. According to State Farm, my home town of Tulsa, Oklahoma has two of the deadliest intersections in the whole U.S.A. They are 51st and Memorial and 71st and Memorial.

That struck me as very odd, since Tulsa isn’t that large a town –certainly not anywhere as large as Los Angeles or New York. Then I read the fine print:

The State Farm Danger Index is determined by the number of crashes at various intersections, how many of those crashes involved injury and the severity of those crashes. It is adjusted to account for the percentage of vehicles insured by State Farm in areas where the intersections are located.

So, it’s a percentage of cars insured by State Farm in that area. Okay. And assuming that they have more market penetration in some areas (like Oklahoma), that could give you a very skewed view of things. Also, the study was released in 2001, though I can tell you from personal knowledge that the pictures of those intersections appear to be much older than that.

Yay statistics.

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