WASHINGTON (AP) — Even light rain significantly increases your risk of a fatal car crash, a new study finds.
The wetter the roads, the deadlier they become, with rain, snow and ice increasing the risk of deadly car crashes by 34%, according to a study this week in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society .
Stevens, a data analyst and meteorologist at the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, and colleagues looked at 125,012 fatal car crashes in the Lower 48 states from 2006 to 2011, factoring in how many cars are on the road, to calculate the risk of a fatal accident. "People slow down when it starts to rain heavily, but I think they under-appreciate the risk of light rain," Stevens said Tuesday.
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