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Statistical road safety: 18th century math, 21st century road safety
Mar 27, 2009 |
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What possible connection could there be between an eighteenth century British Presbyterian minister and preventing road traffic accidents in Hartford, Connecticut. Everything, according to a report in the International Jo ...
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Study simulated car crashes involving pregnant women
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Although states are not required to report fetal deaths in accident data, between 300 and 1,000 unborn babies die in car accidents each year. This accident fatality rate is about four times the rate for victims ...
Research Shows an Incentive to Snitch Produces False Information
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The secondary confession - also known as snitching - is widely accepted as valid evidence in criminal prosecution. Yet, the first behavioral study to investigate whether people will provide false secondary ...
Teen drivers would benefit from greater restrictions
Jan 14, 2008 |
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Most states have graduated licensing for teen drivers but such programs should be even more restrictive, according to a study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Study Says Crash Tests Predict Driver Fatality Risk in Cars, But Not in Trucks
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Frontal crash tests in laboratories are strong predictors of passenger cars' safety on the road, though they fail to accurately project driver fatality risks for trucks, according to a recent Virginia Commonwealth University ...
When dreaming is believing: Dreams affect people's judgment, behavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 17, 2009 |
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While science tries to understand the stuff dreams are made of, humans, from cultures all over the world, continue to believe that dreams contain important hidden truths, according to newly published research.
Association of tight glycemic control with road crashes in diabetic patients
Dec 08, 2009 |
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A study from Canada published this week in PLoS Medicine suggests an association between tighter glycemic control and an increased risk of a motor vehicle crash in diabetic adults. Using a population-based case control analys ...
Automobile restraints do not increase chance of fetal complications following accidents
May 17, 2009 |
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It is well established that seat belts save lives. However, many pregnant women do not wear seat belts, for fear that the belt itself could injure the baby in a car crash. But is this actually the case? Does the seat belt ...
Love thy neighbor? States that lower drinking age hurt others
Jun 30, 2008 |
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States currently considering reducing the drinking age aren't doing their neighbors any favors.
During biggest travel weekend, beware of states that don't enforce seat belt laws
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Thanksgiving marks the heaviest travel weekend of the year and that means large increases in the number of fatal car crashes, particularly in rural areas. And nowhere is that more true than in states that don’t adequately ...
Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday?
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Just in time for the most dangerous days of the year to drive – July 3 and 4 – the national Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) at the University of Minnesota today released a list of the states where Americans are ...
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