Another dangerous place to be around Thanksgiving... 

Good ... less people to clog this nation's resources. Darwin at work.

PhiloeBedoe: Another dangerous place to be around Thanksgiving... 
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That's not the waiting room for subby's mom, that's an interior shot. She seats 20.

8 pages?

A fiery horrible death is still preferable to dealing with certain relatives.

FTFA: "Whenever traffic volume goes up, crashes generally go up as well," says Allen Parrish, director of the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety.

I for one am excited to know that there is an Advanced Center for Public Safety. Because Public Safety 101 just doesn't cut it in my book.

ComaToast: A fiery horrible death is still preferable to dealing with certain relatives.

Hard to argue.

The article says the couple lost control of their car, what does that mean? DUI, speeding, swerving to avoid something, rainy conditions, tire blowout, what? I hate when they do that. I have to assume drinking and driving and they just don't want to embarrass the families.

Birnone: The article says the couple lost control of their car, what does that mean? DUI, speeding, swerving to avoid something, rainy conditions, tire blowout, what?

Maybe it was a little of the old "road-gobble".

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Highway traffic goes up, local traffic goes down. But hey, the crash rate goes "up" because we only like to look at highway stats.

My parents are flying to Vegas tomorrow and won't be back 'til late on Thanksgiving.

Mean's I'm doing Thanksgiving with the Indians in Oklahoma.

/I haven't been to a casino in a year.

I'm seriously not looking forward to all of the driving I am going to be doing for the holiday. I don't think it will be too bad unless people are going to the beach for Thanksgiving, so there's that... Though the stretch of 95 I'm going to be traveling (six times in a week) will probably suck. 6 hours home, an hour and a half to pick up my boyfriend so we can spend some time together then he can meet my parents, then back to his place so I can meet his family, then home, then back to school. No, I'm not sure how I ended up doing all the driving, either. I'll probably do most of the driving for my family, too, since my parents' car is on its very last legs and I'm not letting anyone else drive Idris. Thankfully, my grandmother's house is only 15 minutes away.

Almost makes me glad I'll be sitting at home alone this year. Just me and Swanson's turkey tv dinner. *sigh*

Accidents are up because traffic volume is up. What they never do is compare with the Thanksgiving numbers with the numbers for the previous week then adjust for the increased volume. When someone has, it usually shows the chance for you to be in an accident is about the same.

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werty789: Accidents are up because traffic volume is up. What they never do is compare with the Thanksgiving numbers with the numbers for the previous week then adjust for the increased volume. When someone has, it usually shows the chance for you to be in an accident is about the same.

Not really. While Thanksgiving isn't the worst time to be driving (the days right before Christmas are), the sheer volume of traffic does increase the fatalities somewhat around Thanksgiving. The helpful people at NHTSA have graphs!

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/809 855.pdf