{"id":5325,"date":"2013-08-11T07:14:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T13:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2013-08-11T07:14:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T13:14:19","slug":"mobile-phone-drivers-not-linked-to-accident-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5325","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone drivers &#8216;not linked&#8217; to accident figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/m.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-23631406\">BBC<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers have found no link between the number of US drivers making phone calls while on the road and the number of accidents recorded.<\/p>\n<p>A team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles.php?doi=10.1257\/pol.5.3.92\">Carnegie Mellon University and the London School of Economics analysed<\/a> more than eight million incidents of car crashes and all fatalities on roads in eight US states.<\/p>\n<p>They examined data before and after 9pm local time over a three-year period.<\/p>\n<p>However they say their results do not include texting or internet browsing.<\/p>\n<p>The timeslot was chosen because during the period studied (2002 &#8211; 2005) many American mobile phone operators offered free calls after 9pm during the week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Researchers have found no link between the number of US drivers making phone calls while on the road and the number of accidents recorded. A team at Carnegie Mellon University and the London School of Economics analysed more than eight million incidents of car crashes and all fatalities on roads in eight US states. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}