{"id":37437,"date":"2024-10-29T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=37437"},"modified":"2024-10-29T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T13:04:08","slug":"pedestrian-fatalities-associated-with-halloween-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=37437","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pld180035f2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"229\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">This study examines 42 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data to establish whether Halloween is associated with an increased rate of pedestrian fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/2711459\">Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The entire study interval included 1\u202f580\u202f608 fatal traffic crashes involving 2\u202f333\u202f302 drivers and 268\u202f468 pedestrians. A total of 608 pedestrian fatalities occurred on the 42 Halloween evenings, whereas 851 pedestrian fatalities occurred on the 84 control evenings. Absolute mortality rates averaged 2.07 and 1.45 pedestrian fatalities per hour, respectively. <em><strong>The relative risk of a pedestrian fatality was 43% higher on Halloween compared with control evenings (odds ratio, 1.43 [95% CI, 1.29-1.59];\u00a0P\u2009&lt;\u2009.001). The average Halloween resulted in 4 additional pedestrian deaths.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study examines 42 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[87,277,2055,592],"class_list":["post-37437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cars","tag-death","tag-hallo","tag-traffic","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37440,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37437\/revisions\/37440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}