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Oh, Buck! Study says deer-automobile accident rate up by 18% over last 5 years
What do New Jersey and Nebraska have in common? If you said "absolutely nothing," you'd be right - on any other day but today. Turns out that the Garden State and the Cornhusker State share a very curious stat. Both have seen a 54% increase in deer-related automobile accidents over the last two years. That 54% increase is the largest in the nation, which shows that the problem of deer-related car crashes isn't confined to just one location, but rather a national problem. According to a new State Farm study, the number of cars on the road has grown by 7% over the last five years, but the number of deer-related accidents has swelled 18% in that same time period. No reason why is given in the article, but we'd wager it's a combination of 1) more deer and 2) more and more humans living closer to deer populations. The study does, however, provide some pretty eye-opening statistics. For examples, State Farm estimates that between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2009 there were 2.4 million accidents in the United States involving [Source: State Farm | Image: Hulton/Getty] Continue reading Oh, Buck! Study says deer-automobile accident rate up by 18% over last 5 years Oh, Buck! Study says deer-automobile accident rate up by 18% over last 5 years originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Commentsأكثر... |
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