Serious injuries involving pedestrians wearing headphones have more than tripled since 2004, a U.S. study showed. Researchers from the University of Maryland found that people often were hit by vehicles because their music blocked out horns or sirens alerting them to danger. In 70 percent of cases, the headphone-wearing pedestrians died as a result of the injuries they sustained from being hit by traffic.
Duffy Faces Senate Scrutiny Over Infrastructure Project Delays
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In what was supposed to be a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
hearing laying the foundations for the next transportation reauthorization
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