RANCHO CORDOVA (CBS13) — Rancho Cordova and Citrus Heights person been ranked arsenic the cities with the “rudest” drivers successful the country.
City officials, however, are criticizing the study’s data.
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The survey was compiled successful August by car security punctuation buying website Insurify by analyzing its database of millions of applications this year.
Researchers looked astatine respective categories of infractions – including rates of nonaccomplishment to stop, nonaccomplishment to yield, tailgating, amerciable passing, improper backing, hit-and-runs, and thoroughfare racing – to fertile cities by rudest drivers.
Not lone did Rancho Cordova get deed with the worst rude driving complaint (65.37 per 1,000 drivers, versus the nationalist mean of 22.65 per 1,000) successful California, it besides topped the nation.
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Rancho Cordova got peculiarly atrocious marks for its nonaccomplishment to halt rate, astatine 56.33 per 1,000 drivers. However, adjacent Citrus Heights ranked the worst successful presumption of nonaccomplishment to halt complaint – astir apt contributing to it ranking 2nd successful the federation for rudest drivers.
City officials accidental they person gone done their ain information that accounts for each citations issued successful Rancho Cordova 2021 and recovered that the complaint of “rude” violations is considerably lower, astatine conscionable 1.8 per 1,000 residents.
They besides called retired the selective bias of Insurify’s information set, noting that the statistic that gave Rancho Cordova specified a mediocre ranking is coming lone from radical who applied for security done the company.
“Look astatine the source: Insurify is simply a an security broker with a vested involvement successful selling car insurance,” metropolis officials said successful a statement.
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Insurify says their investigation recovered Somerset, KY arsenic the metropolis with the astir polite drivers successful the federation – with a rude driving complaint of conscionable 1.62 per 1,000.