WASHINGTON: High oil & gasoline prices are decreasing death rates in drivers in the United States of America as millions of people reduced their interest in driving more and more especially teenagers, according to new study.

Professors Michael Morrisey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and David Grabowski of Harvard Medical School notified in a statement they picked out that for each 10 % rise in the gas and oil prices there was a 2.3 % turn down in auto deaths. For drivers aging by 15 to 17, the decrease was 6 %, and for ages by 18 to 21, it was 3.2 %.

Their study found mortalities rates by 1985 to 2006, when gas prices inclined about $2.50 per gallon. Along with gas, recently average $4 a gallon, Morrisey confirmed he imagines seeing a large amount greater of plunge about 1,000 deaths a month.

With annual auto mortalities characteristically averaging by 38,000 to 40,000 a year, a decline of 12,000 deaths would trim down the total by just about a third, Morrisey elucidated in a talk with The Associated Press.

“I consider there are a number of silver linings here in higher gas and oil prices in that we would definitely make out a public health gain”, Grabowski said. He added, “Prudence has got to be implemented as it estimated about 1,000 deaths a month and it could be counterbalance to some extent by the shift under way to lesser, lighter and more fuel-efficient cars and the raise in motorcycle and scooter driving.

Morrisey alleged the study also explored the “same sort of balance” between gas prices and auto deaths when prices decreased.

Morrisey and Grabowski discovered a virtually equal relationship between gas prices and auto deaths in a previous research that was conducted by 1983 to 2000. The studies used auto deaths tabularized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which hasn’t still exposed the outcomes of the investigation up till 2007.

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