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South Carolina is second in the nation for deadliest roads. South Carolina has a significantly higher percentage of speed related fatalities than its neighboring states of North Carolina and Georgia as well as the United States.

South Carolina speed related deaths, as a percentage of all traffic deaths, is over twice that of Georgia and exceeds the United States figure by almost 20 percentage points.
South Carolina's population rate for speed related deaths is 3 times the rate of Georgia as well as the United States as a whole.
South Carolina has a significantly high percent (46.3%) of traffic deaths.

 
BBased on 2005 NHTSA Data
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