Driving at Night (And Not)

In my trips to visit the offspring at UMN, I pointedly avoid driving at night. The reason is car-deer accidents. In fact Wisconsin DOT and the UW have a website deercrash.com. Let's see if your state can beat that dubious honor. (Although, in truthfulness, the site does capture regional data.)

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on a market-based approach to reducing the likelihood of collisions and the resulting alarmingly high death rate (of humans). If you dig through the deercrash.com data notice that about 16% of ALL reported Wisconsin traffic accidents are car-deer incidents. Yikes!