SALT LAKE CITY – In the midst of the Thanksgiving travel period, a new study has ranked all 50 U.S. states to find those with the highest fatal-crash rates per 100,000 registered drivers.

Thankfully, Utah rated a modest 39 out of 50 in the state ranking that covered federal crash data from 2019 to 2023, with only 60 fatal crashes per capita during that five-year period.

Given the state’s average of 2.2 million drivers, however, that rather dry statistic translates to more than 1,300 fatal crashes between 2019 and 2023.

Nevertheless, local residents can take some solace from the fact that Mississippi’s rate of fatal death crashes is nearly triple that of Utah, with its 160 crashes per capita making the Magnolia State number one in the state-by-state ranking.

That study was conducted by

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