Most New Yorkers think the city is full of bad drivers. New data obtained by Gothamist reinforces that perception: Nearly half the Big Apple’s would

Nearly half of NYC's aspiring drivers failed their DMV road tests this year

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2024-11-30 23:30:02

Most New Yorkers think the city is full of bad drivers. New data obtained by Gothamist reinforces that perception: Nearly half the Big Apple’s would-be motorists have failed their driving tests so far this year.

That failure rate — 48% — is higher than the statewide average of 43%, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles. The odds of flunking the test within the city has risen steadily since the COVID-19 pandemic: In 2021, the failure rate in the city was 41%, the data shows.

The growth in the flunk rate came the same time that reckless driving and traffic deaths also increased across the city. Statewide traffic deaths climbed 25% across New York state between 2019 and 2022. In the first six months of 2024, 127 people were killed by drivers compared to 82 people fatally shot in the same period.

“​​That [data] jibes perfectly with what I and I think every other sentient New Yorker sees every day, which is the ongoing collapse of driver performance, driver awareness, driver consideration and driver law abiding-ness that you see practically on every street in the city.”

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