Driving while drowsy can have deadly consequences. The team at Naplab decided to illustrate how dangerous it is to get behind the wheel while drowsy by creating this map of drowsy driving fatalities in relative to population using data from The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
These are the results for counties with a population of 500,000 and over:
- Jefferson County, Alabama, 3.31%
- Kern County, California, 3.06%
- El Paso County, Colorado, 2.97%
- Montgomery Country, Texas, 2.51%
- Adams County, Colorado, 2.46%
For counties with a population between 150,000 and 500,000:
- Bastrop County, TX: 20.72 fatalities per 100,000
- Coconino County, AZ: 13.19 fatalities per 100,000
- Midland County, TX: 20 11.63 fatalities per 100,000
- Hunt County, TX: 10.16 fatalities per 100,000
- Liberty County, TX: 9.80 fatalities per 100,000
For counties between 25,000 and 150,000:
- Gillespie, TX: 40.03 per 100,000
- Milam, TX: 1039.02 per 100,000
- Walker, AL: 2132.64 per 100,000
- Cass, TX: 931.54 per 100,000
- Sweetwater, WY: 31.44 per 100,000