The upside of traffic tickets: Receiving a ticket may be good for your health, according to a new study by health research and policy professor Robert Tibshirani and his colleagues at the University of Toronto. The team found that getting a citation reduced a driver’s risk of dying in a crash by 35 percent in the following month. “Getting a ticket stays on your mind,” says Tibshirani. “If you know you deserved the ticket, it may remind you to slow down.” For a while, anyway. After four months, the researchers found, a citation has almost no protective effect.
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