Drive with extra caution if you find yourself in one of these Indiana cities.

While Indiana is full of roads that offer great scenery and make for a great Sunday drive, we also have a few sketchy roads throughout the state too. Whether they are very narrow, curvy, crowded with other drivers, or just full of potholes, I'm sure we can all think of a few roads that we tend to try to avoid for one reason or another. For the most part, the roads that I tend to avoid are the ones that are downright dangerous because of heavy traffic and careless drivers. These roads include major highways, expressways, and interstates throughout Indiana.

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Stacker recently released an article that used data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to rank the cities in Indiana with the highest accident rates. Rankings are based on the rate of accidents per 10,000 residents. Given that information, which Indiana cities do you think are the most dangerous to drive in?

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These are the Most Dangerous Cities to Drive in Indiana

Stacker revealed the top four most dangerous cities in Indiana to drive in. These cities and statistics may or may not surprise you. Let's check out which cities made the list.

#4. Fort Wayne

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- Fatal accidents per 10,000 residents: 0.7 (Below the national average)
- Total fatal accidents: 19 (19 fatalities)
- Most common crash site: Local city streets (14 fatal accidents)

#3. Evansville

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- Fatal accidents per 10,000 residents: 1.0 (Below the national average)
- Total fatal accidents: 12 (12 fatalities)
- Most common crash site: Local city streets (5 fatal accidents)

#2. Indianapolis

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- Fatal accidents per 10,000 residents: 1.5 (About 1.3x the national average)
- Total fatal accidents: 130 (134 fatalities)
- Most common crash site: Local city streets (93 fatal accidents)

#1. Gary

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- Fatal accidents per 10,000 residents: 1.9 (About 1.6x the national average)
- Total fatal accidents: 13 (15 fatalities)
- Most common crash site: Local city streets (6 fatal accidents)

Are you surprised by these findings or, given your experience driving in these cities, would you agree? Either way, I think it's safe to say that you will want to be safe while driving in these cities. You can learn more about these findings by clicking here.

KEEP READING: 40 Real Indiana Towns with Quirky, Weird, and Funny Names

Outside the major cities, the Hoosier state is full of tiny little towns you've probably passed through on your way to one of those cities. Most of them are likely 100 to 150 years old, or older, and have been around far longer than the large metropolitan areas such as Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Evansville. Typically, they were started by early settlers who found their way to the state and decided to make it home. Eventually, others would join them, and a community was formed. Over time, as the surrounding areas grew, most of them were folded into those areas and governed by the nearest city or county's governing body officially making them "unincorporated," meaning they did not have their own formally organized municipal government.

A scroll through Wikipedia's long list of unincorporated communities in Indiana shows several of them have names that by today's standards would be considered weird, quirky, or just downright right funny. These are my 40 favorities.

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The website, RoadsideAmerica.com, which keeps tabs on the more unique attractions each state has to offer, lists 75 attractions for Indiana. The following 11 are the ones I found to be the most interesting and hope to see in person with my own eyes one of these days.

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