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Thirteen years after Allstate started ranking drivers in the largest metro areas across the country, D.C. still has some of the worst motorists in the country.

Washington came in number 197 out of 200 on the insurance company’s annual America’s Best Drivers report. Allstate and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety compiled the list by looking at the average span of time between claims and “hard-braking” events per every 1,000 miles.

As with most national rankings, it should be read a grain of salt: Allstate only uses data from its own customers to come up with the list. Still, it’s the third-largest auto insurer in the country, accounting for about 10 percent of the market.

According to Allstate’s data, the average U.S. driver will have one collision resulting in property damage every 10 years. In D.C., the average span of time between claims is just 4.3 years. For every 1,000 miles traveled, local drivers experience an average of 21.5 “hard-braking events.”

If you’re hoping to share the road with some more considerate drivers, consider Kansas City, where there are 32 percent fewer collisions than the U.S. average and less than half the number of hard-braking events that D.C. drivers experience.

As for the debate about whether much of the fault can be laid at the brake pedals of MD Driver in DC, the list has some evidence for the theory: Baltimore was one of the only places to fare worse than D.C., coming in at number 199. But hey, we can all agree that Boston is the absolute worst.

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