Insurance company Allstate released its 2025 America’s Best Drivers Report on June 18 and ranked Eugene 10th in a ranking of cities with the safest drivers.

The report’s methodology used auto claims data over a two-year period from January 2022 to December 2023 to determine the likelihood of collisions in the country’s 200 most populated cities.

According to the Oregon Department of Transportation’s traffic crash summary, Eugene had a total of 1,468 motor vehicle crashes in 2022, or about four per day. Portland led the state at 6,500 crashes.

The other cities in the Allstate safest drivers list were:

  1. Brownsville, Texas
  2. Boise, Idaho
  3. Fort Collins, Colo.
  4. Cary, N.C.
  5. Laredo, Texas
  6. Olathe, Kan.
  7. Scottsdale, Ariz.
  8. Port St. Lucie, Fla.
  9. Madison, Wis.

According to the report, Washington, Oregon and Alaska had the largest reductions in crashes. In 2015, Eugene was 35th in the safest driving cities ranking.

Oregon Driver Training Institute is a local driving school in Eugene that has modified its curriculum over the past few years. Jesse Bowman, general manager, said the school teaches new drivers about how to constantly observe their surroundings as well as how to use reference points for judging distance and transition points for steering.  

“I would say without a shadow of a doubt that a lot of the students going through these really in-depth programs end up with more driver knowledge and safer practices than most of the adults I see on the road,” Bowman said.

Jasmine Saboorian is a recent graduate from the University of Oregon and is an intern with the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism. A native of Los Angeles, Jasmine was a journalism major and sports business minor at UO. She began her journalism career in high school as the news editor for her school’s newspaper, the Calabasas Courier, where she discovered her passion for journalism.