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"Worried about what to worry about? Accidents should move higher up your list. Worldwide, road injuries kill more people than AIDS. Falls kill nearly three times as many people as brain cancer. Drowning claims more lives than mothers dying in childbirth. Both fire and poisonings have many times more fatal victims than natural disasters. In 2013, the combined death toll from all unintentional injuries was 3.5 million people. Only heart disease and stroke were greater killers."  

"The effect of marijuana use on drivers just became a little less hazy – and not in the way legislators or medical experts might expect. A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that consuming marijuana does not elevate the crash risk of the driver, a result that’s leaving road safety decision-makers wanting more information."

Police crews and emergency responders have been stretched thin Tuesday morning as drivers have taken to roads despite warnings, leaving strings of accidents that have delayed traffic for miles.

The Nashville Metropolitan Police Department reported that between 3:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday officers responded to four injury crash calls and 82 non-injury crash calls.--Jordan Buie

Chinese were seeing in the Year of the Sheep on Thursday, but with fortune-tellers predicting accidents and an unstable economy and some parents-to-be fretting over the year's reputation for docile kids, it wasn't exactly warming everyone's heart.   Read more at the Morning Call.
Rock ‘n’ roll was still in its infancy when it suffered its first tragedy. On Feb. 3, 1959, three of the biggest stars of the day — Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, known as the Big Bopper — were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Read More: 56 Years Ago: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper Killed in Plane Crash 
In a recent article in Wired magazine titled “Inside the Buzz-Fueled Media Startups Battling for Your Attention,” Matt Honan frankly discusses the prevalence of social media and the “if it bleeds it leads” mentality of the media in general. While there is undeniably some definite truth to this perspective, there is another side worth considering. In some cases there may be a deeper richer story behind driving traffic to any given site: sourcing the humanity and empathy of those subjected to an otherwise over saturated 24-hour news cycle.

How big is the problem?

  • Injuries are the leading cause of death for AI/AN ages 1 to 54 and the third leading cause of death overall. 1

One person is injured after a Tuesday crash in Canoga Park, California that began as a pursuit of a driver suspected of driving under the influence of narcotics. The accident occured on the 8700 block of Mason Avenue. Details concerning the victim's condition and identity were not immediately available. 

Everyone loves a good viral video of a baby dancing in their car seat. Everyone but me. Generally, these videos drive me crazy. Just look at these outrages: Ugh, wrong!

"MOSCOW -- It may not be the most appealing kind of activism. But it certainly makes for interesting, and often viral, YouTube footage.

During Friday rush-hour, Artyom Leonov, 20, and a group of activists, travel to a heaving, traffic-clogged highway in northern Moscow where they lie in wait for hours with video cameras. Their quarry: cars illegally driving on the hard-shoulder.