Dubai roads safer when BlackBerry service is down.
As many of you may know (especially if, ahem, you're following our new tech site), BlackBerry suffered a massive global outage last week. Apparently, the brief blackout lead to a dramatic increase in driver safety in Dubai:
'In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from average rates on the days BlackBerry users were unable to use its messaging service. In Abu Dhabi, the number of accidents this week fell 40 per cent and there were no fatal accidents.On average there is a traffic accident every three minutes in Dubai, while in Abu Dhabi there is a fatal accident every two days.
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