Texas has a traffic problem

It's not what you would expect - delays. It's lives. Every day for the past fifteen years at least one person has been killed in a traffic accident; most days it's closer to ten deaths. In that time period more than 50,000 lives have been lost in traffic accidents. And the accident rate continues to grow; it was up 3.7% in 2014 over 2013. The police blame drunk driving and failure to use seat belts.

California has about 50% more people but fewer traffic accidents per year than Texas.