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Drive safely on tax day: Fatal car accidents increase on April 15

By Karen Weintraub

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 10, 2012

Tax day can be hazardous to your health. Looking at 30 years of car accident data, a University of Toronto professor has found that April 15 (or whatever weekday income tax returns were due that year) is more dangerous than the same weekday a week earlier or later. Roughly 13 more people die in crashes in the United States on tax day than the other days, according to the research published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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