How Likely Are You to Die On a Michigan Highway?

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This is terrifying — but not as terrifying as if you lived in Montana.

According to Thrillist, Michiganders have a 1-in-10,499 chance of dying in a car crash, and a 1-in-5,069 chance of being involved in a car crash. In 2013, the latest year for Thrillist had complete data for the state, 947 people died on Michigan highways.

To get an idea of how deadly roads are in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Thrillist compared government data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration.

Michigan highways are the 21st deadliest, according to the data.

Believe it or not, Washington, DC, which has some of the most congested freeways in the country, is the safest place — probably, Thrillist theorizes, because the freeways are so awful and people take the Metro.

You’re most likely to be killed in Montana, where the probability of dying in a car crash is 1-in-4,433 and the probability of being involved in a fatal car crash is 1-in-2,302. There are only 766,716 licensed drivers in the state, compared with almost 7 million in Michigan.

But there are a lot of cows there. Montana is the state where most likely to hit stationary objects.

Thrillist acknowledged there’s a problem with the data and a trendline that shows it’s safer to drive in urban areas. The data are skewed in areas with well-developed mass transit — like the nation’s capitol.