In The News: Division of Health Sciences

Driving

A new study in the Journal of Transportation and Health, unearthed by the dweebs at Car and Driver, suggests drivers of higher-cost cars were less likely to yield to pedestrians at a mid-block crosswalk.

El Tiempo

If you drive an expensive vehicle, you are likely to be less courteous to pedestrians.

stuff

Most American drivers don't yield when a pedestrian crosses the street, but drivers of expensive cars are some of the worst offenders, according to a new study out of the US.

USA Today

Most drivers don't yield when a pedestrian crosses the street, but drivers of expensive cars are some of the worst offenders, according to a new study.

Yahoo!

Perhaps more than one suspected it and others strongly denied it, however, science has unanimously determined a correlation between drivers who leave much to be desired and their interest in acquiring high-end cars.

Las Vegas Review Journal

If you drive an expensive vehicle, odds are you are less than courteous to pedestrians.

KNPR News

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The Cable Lifestyle

According to the study published in Science Direct journal, such people are also likely to flout traffic laws than their counterparts with cheap cars.

Jalopnik

If you already know that jerks are more likely to drive fancy cars, you’re probably not going to be surprised to learn that those very same fancy cars are unlikely to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. And a new study has confirmed that’s exactly the case. A new study from the Journal of Transport and Health investigates if there is a correlation between car cost and the likelihood of not yielding to pedestrians.

CarAdvice

The research also returned troubling results regarding overall driver behaviour towards people of colour.

Gazzetta Motori

The same conclusions come from two universities in the USA and Finland: there is an inverse correlation between the price of a car and the behavior of drivers