New Findings Reported from Troy University Describe Advances in Risk Management (Heat waves and fatal traffic crashes in the continental United States)
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News — Investigators publish new report on Risk Management. According to news reporting originating from Troy, Alabama, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, “A better understanding of how heat waves affect fatal traffic crashes will be useful to promote awareness of drivers’ vulnerability during an extreme heat event. We applied a time-stratified case-crossover design to examine associations between heat waves and fatal traffic crashes during May-September of 2001-2011 in the continental United States (US).”
Financial supporters for this research include Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Troy University, “Heat waves, defined as the daily mean temperature > 95% threshold for >= 2 consecutive days, were derived using gridded 12.5 km(2) air temperatures from Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). Dates and locations of fatal traffic crash…
