Warning: I am getting up on my soap box.... although I must admit this is a very very very small soap box because I must preface this post with.... I am a terrible driver. Possibly the worst around. How do I know that you might ask? Well if you remember this post:
Any Luck at All It's Bad Luck back in 2008... I have been in a lot of car accidents. Knock on wood... I haven't been in one since I wrote that post.... but anyways I am a horrible, terrible driver. I have no shame what-so-ever saying that. For two reasons really... first my track record clearly supports such a statement. Second, when I say I am a terrible driver, it's like I have no responsibility to be a good driver after saying such a statement.
Okay back to my teeny, tiny soap box. So I feel bad that it is so cool for people to be Utah Haters... It seems everyone hates Utah. In a geography of North America class back in my college days we saw a study that suggested the only state that is valued lower than Utah is North Dakota... Even people in Utah hate Utah. (Clearly I am exaggerating a bit to make my point) but sometimes I just feel bad how much people don't like Utah. Sometimes I feel I should make it my personal crusade to change popular opinion about Utah..
There are hundreds of complaints of why people don't like Utah some completely valid some completely unwarranted. Today I would like to address in my opinion the most unwarranted claim.
Utah has the worst drivers.
Now I am not going to try and prove that Utah does not have poor drivers. Because clearly I am from Utah and I am a terrible driver. But what I would like to prove today is.... EVERYWHERE has terrible drivers. One particular complaint about Utards is slow drivers in the fast lane. For the past month that I have lived in California, I was really hoping to see better driving.... more kind drivers, more patient, and most important, drivers using the fast lane for passing or actually going fast....
Bottom line. Every where has horrible drivers.
When I looked for the statistics of what states have the most fatalities caused by car accidents and states with the most car accidents... Utah did not make the top ten on either.
So although I can't change popular opinion about the gorgeous state of Utah..... at least I can sleep well tonight that I am a terrible driver.... because I am a terrible driver. Not because I am from Utah.