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The Columbia Bar is a system of bars and shoals at the mouth of the Columbia River spanning the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. It is one of the most dangerous bar crossings in the world, earning the nickname Graveyard of the Pacific. The bar is about 3 miles (5 km) wide and 6 miles (10 km) long. [1]
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. [1] The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end.
More than 2,000 ships have wrecked in the area, with more than 700 lives lost, near the Columbia Bar alone. [4] One book lists 484 wrecks at the south and west sides of Vancouver Island. [5] Although major wrecks have declined since the 1920s, several lives are still lost annually. [6]
Hesperia experienced 10.894 speeding deaths per 100,000 residents in 2021, making it the most dangerous area for speeding in the U.S. ConsumerAffairs. Top 25 most dangerous cities for speeding
12. Miami Beach. Location: Miami As one of the most popular beaches in the country, many people don’t realize just how dangerous Miami Beach is — and it’s not because of high crime rates.
This misrepresentation occurs because rates per capita assume that crime increases at the same pace as the number of people in an area. [7] When this linear assumption does not hold, rates per capita still have population effects.
Analyzing data from the Office of Postsecondary Education Campus Safety and Security, researchers at FindTheBest recently compiled a list of thetop 25 most dangerous colleges, determining the four ...
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.