{"id":7725,"date":"2024-04-06T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2024-04-06T13:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:51:49","slug":"upcoming-solar-eclipse-could-lead-to-over-1000-car-crash-deaths-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=7725","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Solar Eclipse Could Lead to Over 1,000 Car Crash Deaths, Study Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s common knowledge now that there\u2019s a total solar eclipse approaching on April 8. But researchers are sounding alarms about the potential hazards on the road eclipses bring. Insights from the 2017 total solar eclipse indicate a troubling surge in fatal car accidents during similar astronomical (and astrological) events. An analysis done by the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto offers a rough forecast, revealing that the upcoming eclipse may show a significant uptick in road fatalities.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=7728\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7385 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Readmore-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s common knowledge now that there\u2019s a total solar eclipse approaching on April 8. But researchers are sounding alarms about the potential hazards on the road eclipses bring. Insights from the 2017 total solar eclipse indicate a troubling surge in fatal car accidents during similar astronomical (and astrological) events. An analysis done by the University&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=7725\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Upcoming Solar Eclipse Could Lead to Over 1,000 Car Crash Deaths, Study Warns&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7730,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}