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Boston is the worst city in the U.S. for auto collisions, Allstate reports
“People in Massachusetts didn’t get termed ‘Massholes’ for no reason.”
Boston’s reputation for being a bad place to drive has received more proof: The city is — once again — the most collision-prone in the country, Allstate reports.
The city’s “relative collision likelihood” sits 244 percent above the national average, according to the insurance company’s 2025 Best Drivers Report. While the average American driver crashes once every 10.5 years, Boston drivers collide once every three.
While Boston ranked the worst for auto collisions, it doesn’t stand alone in Massachusetts. Worcester and Springfield ranked fourth and fifth worst, respectively.
Without much — or no — room to fall, all three Mass. cities maintained their rank from Allstate’s report in 2015.
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“People in Massachusetts didn’t get termed ‘Massholes’ for no reason,” Terry Regan, a lecturer on transportation policy at Boston University, told The Boston Globe. “They tend to follow closely; they tend to run through yellow lights.”
Allstate looked at its auto claims for the 200 most populous U.S. cities from 2022 and 2023 to come up with the ranking, which came out in June.
Brownsville, Texas; Boise, Idaho; and Fort Collins, Colorado, earned the top 3 spots, respectively.
However, as Northeastern University professor Peter Furth told the Globe, collisions aren’t everything — and Massachusetts ranks near the top for safety in terms of injury and death rates.
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“We have other data on what really counts in terms of safety, so let’s not be misled by data on collisions that need an insurance claim,” he said earlier this month.
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