Fewer Car-Deer Crashes With Permanent Daylight Saving

Fewer Car-Deer Crashes With Permanent Daylight Saving
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Adopting permanent daylight saving time in the United States would reduce deer-vehicle collisions, report researchers.

The switch would likely prevent an estimated 36,550 deer deaths, 33 human deaths, 2,054 human injuries, and $1.19 billion in costs each year, the study finds. Deer-vehicle collisions would decrease under permanent DST because skies would be brighter later into the evening.

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