Saturday, November 03, 2007

Time change increases death risk?

This was an interesting article that made some points that I had not realized when it comes to the change in daylight savings time:

It also means that pedestrians walking around dusk are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, the researchers calculate.

Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S. pedestrian deaths around 6 p.m. in November compared to October, the professors report.

Considering I'm not a fan of the whole messing with mother nature as far as creating an artificial time in the first place, perhaps this is just one additional reason why our government should just leave it alone...

1 comment:

-Sepp said...

I'm a night shifter so my increase in "death risk" will happen after 6 AM. 13 and a half hours is a long time to be at work!