Study: Distracting Roadside Safety Billboards May Cause 17K Crashes A Year
Road signs that implore highway motorists to drive carefully by reminding them of roadway death totals may actually be causing crashes because they’re too distracting, a new study finds.
By
Kea Wilson
3:22 AM CDT on May 3, 2022
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