尽管路上的汽车减少了，但疫情期间交通死亡人数激增。美国汽车协会的一项新研究发现，道路上鲁莽司机的增加可能是罪魁祸首。

这项在2020年秋季进行的研究发现，估计有4%的美国司机报告说，他们在疫情期间增加了驾驶次数。AAA说，这些司机往往更年轻，而且大多是男性。

报告发现，该群体还报告参与了危险驾驶行为，如分心驾驶、超速、攻击性驾驶、药物损伤驾驶和不使用安全带。

美国汽车协会交通安全基金会执行董事杨维理博士在一份新闻稿中说:“我们的研究发现，在疫情期间，高风险驾驶者占驾驶者的比例比之前更大。”。“注重安全的人很少开车，而许多增加开车次数的人倾向于在开车时从事更危险的行为。”

美国汽车协会说，在疫情的头几个月，美国成年人平均每天驾车出行的次数减少了42%。

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根据国家公路交通安全管理局(NHTSA)的数据，尽管交通量下降，但与去年同期相比，2020年下半年美国道路上死亡的人数增加了约13%。

该机构估计，2020年有38，680人死于道路交通事故，这是自2007年以来预计的最大死亡人数。

AAA的调查结果是该组织年度交通安全文化指数的一部分。研究人员在2020年10月至11月期间询问了近3000名司机过去30天的驾驶习惯。

AAA交通安全基金会的高级研究员Brian Tefft在接受美国广播公司新闻采访时表示:“大约4%的人报告说，他们实际上因为疫情而开车更多，我们在这里的研究重点是，尽管这个群体很小，但他们开车更多，而且他们似乎是风险更高的司机，无论是从他们的特征还是从他们自己报告的驾驶行为来看都是如此。”。

Risky drivers drove more during pandemic, AAA says

Traffic deaths surged during the pandemic, despite less cars on the road. A new study from AAA found an increase in reckless drivers on the roads may be to blame.

The study, conducted in fall of 2020, found an estimated 4% of drivers in the United States reported they increased their driving during the pandemic. Those drivers tended to be younger and mostly male, AAA said.

That group also reported to engage in risky driving behaviors such as distracted driving, speeding, aggressive driving, substance-impaired driving and not using seatbelts, the report found.

"Our research finds that higher-risk motorists accounted for a greater share of drivers during the pandemic than before it," Dr. David Yang, executive director of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, said in a release. "Safety-minded individuals drove less, while many who increased their driving tended to engage in riskier behaviors behind the wheel."

The average daily number of driving trips made by adults in the U.S. decreased by 42% during the early months of the pandemic, AAA said.

Despite the decrease in traffic, approximately 13% more people died on U.S. roads in the second half of 2020 compared to the same time the year prior, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

The agency estimates 38,680 people died on roads in 2020 -- the largest projected number of fatalities since 2007.

AAA’s survey results were part of the organization’s annual Traffic Safety Culture index. Researchers questioned almost 3,000 drivers between October and November of 2020 about their driving habits in the past 30 days.

"About 4% of the population reported they were actually driving more because of the pandemic, and the emphasis of our study here is that group, although small, is driving more and that they appeared to be far higher risk drivers, both in terms of their characteristics and in terms of their own self-reported behaviors behind the wheel,” Brian Tefft, senior researcher at the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, said in an interview with ABC News.