Full moon is the cause of many fatal traffic accidents?

This is a new discovery by scientists but the accuracy has not been confirmed.

According to Mirror, scientific researchers have just announced a new finding on the relationship between traffic accidents with. Specifically, scientists found that the full moon is associated with an increased risk of motorbike accidents and even deaths in the UK, Australia, the United States and Canada.

Every month there will be a full moon night or full moon.

This discovery was published in The BMJ magazine (a famous medical journal in the UK and has the world's longest history). In the post, scientists recommend motorcyclists to be careful during the time. The reason is that the full moon can distract the driver of the vehicle.

The research has just stopped at the level of the full moon with the number of traffic accidents. Currently, Professor Donald Redelmeier (of the University of Toronto, Canada) and Professor Eldar Shafir (of Princeton University, USA) have planned to study how the full moon is related to the cases caused by the ear. motorbike accident

In the study, they analyzed the number of motor vehicle accidents in the US from 1975 to 2014, and calculated the number of fatal accidents on the full moon night compared to the previous nights and then a week later. As a result, they recorded a total of 13,029 deaths from motorbike accidents occurring during 1,482 nights, including 494 full moon nights (accounting for one third).

More specifically, 4,494 fatal accidents occurred in the above 494 full moon nights, ie about 9.1 per night; and 8,535 cases occurred in the remaining 988 nights, or about 8.64 per night. Differences are also recorded after data analysis in the UK, Australia and Canada.

According to the study, driving in the night of the full moon is more dangerous.

One more remarkable figure is that in the 494 full moon night above, there are 65 nights (ie the Moon is bigger and brighter than the usual full moon). During those 65 nights, there were a total of 703 fatal accidents, about 10.82 cases per night - this rate was much higher than the usual full moon nights and non-round moon nights.

The researchers said this is just a study based on data analysis. Therefore, they do not make firm conclusions about the causes and consequences of events. In fact, not only distraction but also other factors can be involved, such as weather. But through this finding, researchers have a base to advise people to drive more carefully, especially during the full moon night. Some safety measures include wearing a helmet, turning on the light, paying attention to the road, being careful with the weather, obeying traffic laws, .