Study: Headphones Dangerous for Pedestrians
The death of a Middle River girl struck and killed by a train in 2010 provided the motivation for the newly released research from the University of Maryland.
Anna Marie Stickel never heard the train coming that struck and killed her a little more than two years ago. The 14-year-old Middle River girl had headphones on as she listened to music and walked along the tracks on the way to school that tragic day. It was Stickel’s death that prompted Dr. Richard Lichenstein to study the dangers of pedestrians wearing headphones. What Lichenstein, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of pediatric emergency medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, discovered was that Stickel’s death was far from an isolated incident. Her death, he concluded, could be a part of a national safety issue. According to Lichenstein’s study, 116 people …
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