Fatal Traffic Risks With a Total Solar Eclipse in the US

JAMA Intern Med. 2024 May 1;184(5):575-577. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.5234.

Donald A Redelmeier^{1

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5}, John A Staples^{6

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¹ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Evaluative Clinical Science Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Center for Leading Injury Prevention Practice Education & Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁷ Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Plain language summary

This case-control study describes the incidence of fatal traffic crashes in the US during the 2017 total solar eclipse.