Citation

Phillips DP. Science 1977; 196(4297): 1464-1466.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, American Association for the Advancement of Science)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

867044

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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