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I saw an article to the effect that car-related deaths are up because, since there are fewer cars on the road, the drivers who are left drive faster and/or more

• lamontcg 5y ago
  Yeah I was struck by how fucking insane people got on the roads shortly after the pandemic struck. You'd think people would chill out because the roads were practically empty, but I guess pandemic stress combined with the immediate rage of "the roads are empty and this asshole camper is only doing 75 mph in left lane" leading to absolute lunacy at very high speeds. Normal levels of rush hour traffic around here mean nobody can do more than 50 mph at best with an average speed closer to 35, which probably keeps the deaths down.
• JshWright 5y ago
  Traffic deaths were up very slightly in 2021. Not enough to move the needle on all-cause mortality.
• whimsicalism 5y ago
  Interesting. So scratch the bit about cars. Doesn't honestly surprise me that much , I was driving up i95 in late March and people were pulling some really crazy shit in the early pandemic. I also saw a few (looked deadly to me) wrecks on the highway.