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Headphone-Using Pedestrians Are a Serious Road Danger, Study Says
- Headphone-wearing teenagers may be the biggest road hazard facing drivers today, a new study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore suggests.
- Serious injuries to pedestrians — mostly young males — who are wearing headphones have more than tripled in six years.
- Because the pedestrians are blasting their music, they don’t hear a car or train horn, and have died in nearly three quarters of 116 accident cases over seven years.
BALTIMORE — Headphone-wearing teenagers may be one of the biggest road hazards facing drivers today, a new study suggests.
Serious injuries to pedestrians — mostly young males — blasting music while sporting headphones have more than tripled in six years, according to research released this week by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Because they don’t hear a car or train horn, they have died in nearly three quarters of cases, the university reports.
“Everybody is aware of the risk of cell phones and texting in automobiles, but I see more and more teens distracted with the latest devices and headphones in their ears,” said lead author Richard Lichenstein, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in a statement.
Lichenstein and his research team reviewed 116 accident cases from 2004-’11 in which pedestrians were struck by trains or vehicles. In 70 percent of the cases, they were killed. More than two thirds of victims were male and under the age of 30. More than half of the moving vehicles involved in the accidents were trains, and nearly a third of the vehicles reported sounding a horn prior to the crash.
While loud music has raised safety questions since the advent of the car radio, Lichenstein, an emergency-room physician, hopes parents hound their children to turn down the volume. He launched the study after a local teen was killed while crossing railroad tracks despite the train honking at him.
“As a pediatric emergency physician and someone interested in safety and prevention, I saw this as an opportunity to — at minimum — alert parents of teens and young adults of the potential risk of wearing headphones where moving vehicles are present,” Lichenstein added.
Inside Line says: “Turn that racket down” may soon be heard by a new generation.
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Headphone-Using Pedestrians Are a Serious Road Danger, Study Says
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