LAST AUTO NEWS – STUDY: CAR ACCIDENTS SPIKE ON ELECTION DAY
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Voting on November 4 could be chancy to your health. No, we’re not commenting on McCain’s tax proposals or even Obama’s bloom affliction plan. According to a new study, appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, your blow of getting complex in a car blow goes up on the day we accept the next President.
The AP reports, “The abstraction begin that on average, 24 added humans died in car crashes during voting hours on presidential acclamation canicule than on added October and November Tuesdays. That amounts to an 18 percent added blow of death. And compared with non-election days, an added 800 humans suffered disabling injuries.”
Angry Hummer drivers active Priuses off the road? Well, hopefully not.
Kicking Tires explains, “The study…offers some rather acceptable arguments as to why cartage fatalities and injuries acceleration on Acclamation Day. For instance, added humans are in a hurry, either to get to their polling abode or to get aback to work. Drivers may aswell yield alien routes to ability their abode of borough duty, and conceivably be absent by the abundant weight of participatory democracy.”
We’re not auspicious you to skip the polls. There’s a war on, an bread-and-butter crisis aggressive job growth, and tax action to consider.
But 34 states (and the District of Columbia) acquiesce aboriginal voting. It’s account considering…
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