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'Spring forward' to daylight saving time brings surge in deadly crashes (colorado.edu)
26 points by EndXA on Jan 31, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



tl;dr: "... 626.9 (95% CI 339.3 to 914.4) out of 8,958 fatal MVAs in the 5 workdays after DST transition from 1996 to 2017 were attributable to DST, and thus were preventable.


I think the better tl;dr is: "Our results support the theory that abolishing time changes completely would improve public health," said Vetter.




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