TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS CORRELATED WITH TERROR

Terror Attacks Spur Israel Road Deaths Spike-Study
Fatal attacks in Israel cause a direct increase in the number of deadly traffic accidents -- but not until three days later, researchers said on Monday. The team at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Princeton University in New Jersey found a 35 percent increase in the number of fatal traffic accidents after attacks by militants.

Four days after an attack, the fatal traffic accident rate returns to normal. "Analyzing an 18-month period that included a large number of terrorist attacks, we find a lull in the light accident rate the day after an attack followed by a spike in traffic accident fatalities three days after an attack," Guy Stecklov and Joshua Goldstein wrote in their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.