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have parts of the US been plunged into the all-consuming daytime darkness of a total solar eclipse; before that, it was 1979.From there, Texas up to Maine and out to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada will slide into an eerie darkness thatSo disorientating is the feeling of totality, and the buzz about it, that it might also wreak havoc on drivers: A new study has found fatal road accidents spiked in the US during the 2017 solar eclipse.
Using a national registry of fatal US road accidents, the pair tallied up fatal incidents that occurred on public roads during a three-day window centered on the 21 August 2017 eclipse. Around 10 fatal accidents occurred per hour on the day before, the day of and day after the eclipse, compared to roughly 8 road fatalities per hour during the control periods.
The relative risk of being in a fatal crash was 70 percent higher than usual for young people, and 40 percent higher than on normal clear weather days. The odds of being in a serious, but not fatal, road accident were also twice as likely around the 2017 eclipse.
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