The switch to daylight saving time leads to more deadly vehicle accidents BraunS/Getty
The risk of fatal car crashes goes up in the week after the shift to summer time, or daylight saving time, each spring. In the US alone, researchers predict that about 29 deadly accidents in the week after the transition could be prevented each year.
鈥淭he best option, not only for traffic accident risk, but also health and well-being in general, would be to get rid of daylight saving time transitions altogether,鈥 says C茅line Vetter at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Vetter and her team analysed…
