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To the Editor: The Super Bowl is the most popular regular television broadcast in the United States, with an audience of about 130 million Americans. We studied driving fatalities on 27 consecutive Super Bowl Sundays, because alcohol, inattention, and fatigue are major contributors to fatal motor vehicle crashes.¹ To do so, we compared each Super Bowl Sunday to the immediately preceding and subsequent Sundays (comparisons that controlled for season of the year, day of the week, and calendar year).

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