![]() ![]() ![]() “You’ve been cooped up, locked down, and have restrictions you chafe at,” he said. The rise in motor vehicle deaths lines up with other pandemic-era trends: Alcohol sales have soared, drug overdoses have set new records, and homicides have seen their biggest increase on record.ĬOVID-19 marks “a sea change in psychology,” said Frank Farley, a professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, who views reckless driving as a form of rebellion - or what he calls “arousal breakout.” “We might decide: What does a seatbelt or another beer matter, anyway, when we’re in the middle of a pandemic?” said Shannon Frattaroli, a researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Our roads are less safe than they were pre-pandemic.”Įxperts say that behavior on the road is likely a reflection of widespread feelings of isolation, loneliness and depression. “I fear we’ve adopted some really unsafe driving habits, and they’re going to persist,” Kolosh said. drivers more reckless - more likely to speed, drink or use drugs and leave their seatbelts unbuckled. The latest evidence suggests that after decades of safety gains, the pandemic has made U.S. ![]()
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