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Drivers should not dash through the snow.(YOUR LIFE)
Icy roadways, stressed shoppers, packed highways, frolicking kids, soused partygoers--all conspire to make the holiday season the most dangerous time of the year for drivers and pedestrians. Given that speeding is a factor in roughly 30% of all traffic fatalities, there are plenty of reasons to slow down over the next couple of months. Here are five really good ones to keep in mind, courtesy of Autobytel's safe-driving campaign:
Because death definitely does not take a holiday. Over the past decade, roughly 13,500 traffic fatalities occurred during the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's holiday periods, and nearly 5,000 of those deaths were speeding related. This upward trend actually starts after October, culminating on New Year's--the deadliest day for speeding-related fatalities of any date on the calendar. Moreover, pedestrians account for nearly 13% of all crash deaths.
Because it is a busy, busy time on the old highways. It is estimated that more than 35,000,000 people will drive 50 miles or more from home on Thanksgiving weekend, and that another 50,000,000-plus will drive over 50 miles during the Christmas season to visit friends and family.
Because too many drivers have had too much "holiday cheer" ...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire December 16, 2004 700+ words
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- As New Year's arrives, victim painfully remembers alcohol-related tragedy.
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 25, 2002 700+ words
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- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 7, 2004 700+ words
...moderate their drinking over the Lunar New Year holidays after a number of recent alcohol-related deaths. In Shaoyang county, Hunan...17-year-old Tibetan girl died of alcohol-related poisoning in the province after taking...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 3, 2003 700+ words
...Thanksgiving to New Year's holiday season...people died in alcohol-related crashes or crashes...Thanksgiving to New Year's Eve last year...resulting from alcohol-related crashes and/or...madd.org/ . Alcohol-Related and Unrestrained...Thanksgiving to ...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire February 3, 2005 700+ words
...increase in alcohol-related crash deaths...injuries. Only the New Year's period had...or injured in alcohol-related crashes over...year is the New Year's period with...increase in alcohol-related deaths and injuries...
- Preventing party and alcohol-related insurance problems.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 30, 2003 700+ words
...1,561 people were killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, with 57 of them hit...than 17,000 people a year, and alcohol-related crashes account for 41 percent...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire September 2, 2004 700+ words
...rate of increase of alcohol-related crashes resulting...driving. When comparing alcohol-related crashes that result...after drinking." The New Year's period was the...the proportion of alcohol-related fatal and injury crashes...
Source: HighBeam Research, Drivers should not dash through the snow.(YOUR LIFE)