doi: 10.1126/science.867044.
Motor vehicle fatalities increase just after publicized suicide stories
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Motor vehicle fatalities increase just after publicized suicide stories
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Abstract
The average increase in motor vehicle fatalities is 9.12 percent in the week after a suicide story. The more publicity given to the story, the greater the rise in motor vehicle deaths thereafter. This rise apparently occurs because suicide stories stimulate a wave of imitative suicides, some of which are disguised as motor vehicle accidents.
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