This Is the Most Dangerous State in America

Perhaps no one knows better than personal injury lawyers how dangerous simply existing can be these days—especially in the US, where death rates are about 2.5 times higher than the average rates in other high-income nations, per Newsweek. That's why the Caputo and Van Der Walde Injury & Accident Attorneys has ranked the microcosms (each individual state) amid the larger American macrocosm in terms of dangerous living, based on 10 metrics, including traffic deaths, injuries suffered at work, deaths by gunfire, and crime, among others. Here, the top and bottom five:

Most dangerous states

1. New Mexico
2. Louisiana
3. Arkansas
4. Alaska
5. Missouri

Least dangerous states

46. Maine
47. New Jersey
48. Massachusetts
49. New Hampshire
50. Rhode Island

Check out Newsweek for other details. (These states have the most aggressive drivers.)