Since moving to WV, when either my wife or I tell someone that we’re from Ohio the first reaction we usually get is OMG OHIO DRIVERS ARE TEH SUXXORS LOLLOL!!!111. Everyone in WV thinks OH drivers or the worst. Of course what they don’t realize is that everyone in OH thinks WV drivers are the worst.
Thanks to a recent study from Allstate we Buckeyes (former and current) now have a little concrete evidence to make our case.
Allstate just published their 2009 “America’s Best Drivers Report” which is based on several factors, including relative likelihood of a collision compared to national average and average years between collisions. They list the top 193 cities in the country.
Six — count them, six — cities in OH made the list, including my hometown of Cincinnati.
Number of WV cities that made the top 193? Zero.
Go ahead and make your jokes now. The proof is in the data.
Oh, and would it kill you to use your turn signal every once in a while?
I’ve always found PA drivers to be really bad.
I haven’t done any driving in PA. I found driving in KY to be pretty harrowing at times though.
Well the thing is..Ohio-ins behave when they are in their own state and come to West Virginia to suck at driving hence lowing the cities standings. Obviously cause Ohio is the SUXXORRR 4EVA N00 RTNS!!
I totally agree with the turn signal thing. It’s like people consider it an “optional” when driving.
I’d love to hear what the Ohio driving test is like (and I mean that seriously, not in a sarcastic manner!) because I experience the West Virginian test and frankly it scared me at how easy it was and how incompetent you could be at driving and still pass.
That’s because as soon as they enter the state they go into white-knuckled panic.
As far as the OH driving test, all I remember is being scared shiteless. We didn’t have to run an Indy course or anything though.
Since I didn’t notice any population of that list of less than triple digits, I’ll presume WV’s small towns don’t qualify for the list. Besides, we that live in border towns know good and well that noone gives a good left turn signal with their left arm like a West Virginian.
That’s an interesting observation. You’re right — no small towns. But since the collision numbers were in terms of percentages I’m not sure that would be relevant. Maybe the didn’t look at any towns under 100k? Who knows.
Some of that WV non-use of turn signals trickles over to the Ohio side right here where I live which is just over the river from Wheeling. It’s an area of Ohio that I think the rest of Ohio considers WV!! LOL
I’ve also noticed since moving to this area that most people don’t really comprehend what the lines painted on the road actually represent. For example, if a section of road has a lot of curves, people don’t think twice about drifting out over the middle yellow lines in order to make the curve less severe or, even worse, have to APPLY THEIR BRAKES!!
Maybe it was already said… but that’s because Ohio driver drive 10 miles under the speed limit in whatever lane they choose. Unless they want to pass, of course, then they’ll speed up to pass… in the right lane.
What the hell is a “turn signal” ?!?
I used to think OH drivers were the worst (Bobby Rahal excepted), but then I lived in Beckley for a while and saw lots of Virginia plates around. Now those folks have no freaking clue how to drive. Make Ohioans look like savants, really.
But, when it comes to one specific behavior that drives me nuts, it’s the Pennsylvanians, who like to come to a complete stop on Interstate on ramps!
I usually get the signal after I have raged at some SOB for not using the one built into the vehicle. It usually is in the form of a one-finger salute! I just tell him that his hand in that configuration looks a lot like the state of WV.