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G’more — Glenmore to the less jaded — seems to be a hotbed of accidents. So I can’t really blame 660’s morning traffic person, Sue Deyell, for focusing her attention on that trail of terror. Although, it would be nice to hear more often that McKnight Boulevard eastbound is backed up from Edmonton Trail, to the corner where it morphs into John Laurie, which is backed up to 14th Street — before I drive into that mess.

Most cities I’ve lived in have taken a perverse pride in claiming that they have the worst drivers, but Calgary has them all beat. This can’t rightly be called bragging rights, but maybe it’s whining rights on the part of Calgary drivers who enjoy a pitiful handful of red-letter days per year when it can truly be said that the commute was clear sailing.

Lisa McWatt, director of brand innovation for Allstate Canada, said she thinks the problem is drivers’ behaviour: “We think that’s really about people rushing around and not driving with the care they should.”

That’s kind of an obvious conclusion. Here’s what driving-test-success.com has to say about it. They’re in the U.K., but human nature being the same on this side of the pond, we can easily recognize on this list our fellow Calgarians seen on the daily commute.

The top cause, responsible for 35 per cent of accidents, is that the driver “failed to look properly.” This is followed by “failed to judge other person’s path or speed; careless, reckless or in a hurry; loss of control; poor turn or manoeuvre; travelling too fast for conditions; slippery road due to weather; sudden braking, and following too closely.”