BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A recent study found that Louisiana was in the top five states where college students are at risk of being in an accident.
Personal injury lawyers at the Schiller Kessler Group looked at crash fatality data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to determine the most dangerous states and counties. The counties that were looked at were those with driving schools. The number of fatal crashes was adjusted based on local populations to calculate a rate per 100,000 residents.
The national average is 52.2 crashes per 100,000 people, the study said…