Fatal car crashes spike on major album release days, study suggests

Studies showed that 55 percent of U.S. adults who were drivers or passengers of a car in the past month streamed online audio - (Getty Images)

There appears to be a correlation between spikes in fatal car crashes and days when major artists release new music, according to a new study.

In a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of researchers associated with Harvard Medical School investigated “the impact of smartphones on road safety by examining traffic fatalities on days when smartphone use likely surges: the release of major music albums.”