Headphone-Wearing Pedestrians: Beware!!!!!!

by Paul Rega, MD — published on January 17th, 2012
Deaths of Headphone-Wearing Pedestrians Increase, Study Finds

January 16, 2012, 6:52 PM EST

By Trista Kelley

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — “The number of headphone-wearing pedestrians seriously injured or killed near roadways and railways has tripled in six years, according to a U.S. study.

The number of cases rose from 16 in 2004-2005 to 47 in 2010-2011, according to the research published today in the online journal Injury Prevention. Thirty-four of the 116 total cases in the study specifically mention horns or sirens being sounded before the victims were struck…..”

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