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Teen crash rates affected by sleep

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By ABC7
Friday, November 13, 2009
Schools in one Kansas County gave kids the extra hour.

University of Kentucky researchers followed up and found more kids reported getting eight hours of sleep on school nights instead of the usual seven.

And teen car crash rates declined 16.5 percent in the two years after the change. Elsewhere, teen crash rates increased nearly 8 percent.


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