#Study shows top 10 cities with worst holiday drivers

Lay off the horn!

The stats are in and a new study by GasBuddy shows the worst cities for scrooges behind the wheel during this holiday season.

And it turns out, the angriest drivers this Christmas are likely to be in California. The COVID-19-riddled state has four cities with the most aggressive drivers in the top 10 list with Los Angeles coming in No. 1, San Diego in second place, Sacramento in third and San Francisco in seventh place.

“California issuing another round of stay-at-home orders immediately ahead of Thanksgiving on Nov. 19 could have been the catalyst for the highest percent of Grinch-style aggressive driving occurring in the country,” Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said in a statement. “When we are anxious and stressed, it surfaces in a multitude of ways including how we drive. Given how this year is going, it’s likely we’ll also see a higher level of aggressive driving ahead of Christmas.” 

San Diego is making its first appearance on the list and notably, Atlanta, which was last year’s most aggressive city, dropped off the list altogether this year.

The complete list of the top 10 cities with the “most aggressive holiday drivers” are:

1. Los Angeles 
2. San Diego 
3. Sacramento, Calif. 
4. Memphis, Tenn. 
5. Miami-Fort Lauderdale
6. Raleigh, N.C. 
7. San Francisco 
8. Dallas-Fort Worth 
9. Detroit 
10. Charlotte, N.C.

Shockingly, in the complete city rankings, New York City comes in at number 14 – and no cities in New Jersey are mentioned at all, leading us to take this study with a grain of salt.