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Re:Traffic Fatalities Reach 16 Year High by kube-system on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:22PM (#32351160)
The biggest increase was on urban roads. My hypothesis is that increased levels of WFH had led to lower traffic congestion and therefore higher traffic speeds in urban areas. This makes accidents more deadly.
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Re:Traffic Fatalities Reach 16 Year High by giraffe_lady on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:06AM (#32351482)
That was a real effect the first covid summer. Streets were empty by pre-pandemic standards but a lot more extreme driving by the people who were out.

Traffic has been fully back to pre-pandemic levels for a while in my city though, so it's not a very satisfying explanation now.

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Re:Traffic Fatalities Reach 16 Year High by kube-system on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:28AM (#32352107)
This study was for 2021, so I think that was the peak for those behaviors.
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