Study: Posting road death totals on digital highway signs may be deadly

Utah often posts messages on its electronic highway signs that say how many people have died on the state’s roads so far this year or season. They’re intended to improve safety, but a new study says the practice actually increases accidents.That’s because the message is so stark that it distracts some drivers and increases crashes nearby, according to a study by Jonathan D. Hall, of the University of Toronto, and Joshua Madsen, of the University of Minnesota.“We hypothesi