The streets of Sunbelt cities continue to endanger pedestrians, cyclists, and car drivers, even as many American metropolitan areas are making real progress on road safety.
That’s one of the main takeaways of the new U.S. Safe Streets Index published by the transportation analytics firm StreetLight, which ranked the 100 biggest metros according to several key safety metrics.
New York City came in first and Bakersfield, California came in last — and towards the bottom of that range are a lot of southern cities…