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Air pollution causes road traffic collisions

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  • Started 8 years ago by I were right about that saddle
  • Latest reply from gembo

  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Correlation isn't causation and all that but this is intriguing;

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/03/air-pollution-could-be-to-blame-for-hundreds-of-traffic-accident/

    Posted 8 years ago #
  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    “So I think this research may be far-fetched as I think it would be very difficult to prove that a driver’s fitness is impaired by pollution.”

    I'd have thought that was the easy bit....

    Posted 8 years ago #
  3. gembo
    Member

    Driving is 100per cent correlated with collisions. Even that fact is hard for people to accept

    Posted 8 years ago #

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