Two new reports suggest that Utah drivers and congestion may not be all that bad — at least compared to others.
For example, the Salt Lake City area is the eighth-least congested among 53 large cities in the United States, and ninth-least congested among 146 large cities worldwide studied by TomTom, a manufacturer of electronic GPS route-finding devices, according to a study it released Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Utah Foundation, a nonprofit that conducts research on ways to improve the state’s economy, released a separate study looking at how safe Utah drivers are based on research from several other organizations.
It noted that CarInsuranceComparison.com last year ranked Utah drivers as second best in the nation. On the other end of the spectrum, Insure.com ranked them as the 10th rudest. And Allstate insurance gave Salt Lake City drivers middle-of-the-road marks as No. 67 safest out of 200 large cities.
“It really depends on what the criteria for safety is” in the various reports, said Utah Foundation research analyst Melissa Proctor. She said the study that ranked Utahns as second best leaned heavily on its low drunken driving and fatality rates, while the Allstate study giving them mediocre grades looked at how often they crash.
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