Upside of Recession? Less Auto Fatalities
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 | posted by: Kristen
Of course, wearing a seatbelt and purchasing a car with airbags helps too.
Changes in driving patterns and safety features both contributed to a 22 percent decline in road deaths between 2005 and 2009, Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the University of Michigan said in a report that studied federal data looking for the causes associated with fatal crashes.
“From 2005 to 2009, U.S. road fatalities dropped by 22 percent (from 43,510 to 33,963). A reduction of such magnitude over such a short time has not occurred since road safety statistics were first kept (starting in 1913), except for the reductions during World War II,” they wrote in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention.
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