As officials rapidly rolled out restrictions that kept millions home, Connecticut roads became far less crowded, but much more deadly, new research shows.
A team of eight researchers, in a report published in The BMJ, a medical trade journal, found that deadly one-car crashes more than quadrupled from late March to the end of April, as Gov. Ned Lamont took steps to limit the spread of COVID-19 that, in turn, drastically decreased the number of cars on the road.
“We compared motor vehicle crash rates before and after the March 23 stay-at-home order,” said one of the report’s authors, Eastern Connecticut State University Professor Mitchell Doucette, in a statement.