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The iPod generation is finding itself in harm's way when it comes to listening to music while taking city strolls. As iPods and other personal music devices has proliferated, so have deaths and injuries in crashes.
Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled in six years, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. In many cases, the cars or trains are sounding horns that the pedestrians cannot hear, leading to fatalities in nearly three-quarters of cases, the university reports.
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