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Stress and concerns can affect people’s level of concentration. If motorists think of their troubles while driving, that could disturb their concentration on their surroundings.

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Kazumi Renge, a traffic psychology professor and the president of Tezukayama University in Nara, suggesting that anxiety about work and life caused by the pandemic are the likely culprits behind the increase in traffic deaths. Fatalities rose in Tokyo and 12 other prefectures from last year.


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Traffic psychology professor? Anything for a job, I suppose. Anxiety and personal concerns are common to all people. Blaming bad driving that causes accidents on the pandemic is facile.

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Is he just surmising, or has he done any actual statistical research? For example, I could surmise that being more relaxed when driving causes more accidents, and that Covid is giving more people more free time and therefore they are more carefree at the wheel. I think I'd need some substantial evidence to back up that idea.

But have fatalities actually increased? They decreased in the first half of the year according to the link below, but had actually been higher than last year over January and February, which was before the Covid emergency began.

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00789/

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