Terror attacks in Israel produce an alarming though temporary rise in the number of people killed in road accidents, a study conducted by Hebrew University and Princeton University researchers has found.
In an analysis of road death statistics, the researchers, Dr. Guy Stecklov of the HU Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Dr. Joshua Goldstein of Princeton University, found that there is a 35% rise in the traffic accident fatality rate three days after a terror attack, compared to an average day. There is even a more dramatic 69% jump in the fatality rate after particularly deadly terror attacks, in which 10 or more people are killed. The fatality rate is a measure of the number of road fatalities in a particular period, divided by the number of cars on the road at that time.
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