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Silver cars are much less likely to be involved in a serious crash than cars of other colors, suggests a new study of over 1000

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问题     Silver cars are much less likely to be involved in a serious crash than cars of other colors, suggests a new study of over 1000 cars. People (36)______ in silver cars were 50 percent less likely to experience serious injury in a crash (37)______ with drivers of white cars, the research in New Zealand found.
    White, yellow, grey, red and blue cars carried about the same (38)______ of injury. But those taking to the roads in black, brown, or green cars were twice as likely to (39)______ a crash with serious injury. Sue Furness, at the University of Auckland, led the study but says the team does not know why silver cars (40)______ safer. "We think it may be due to a (41)______ of light colour and high reflectivity, "she (42)______. She suggests that increasing the proportion of silver cars on the road might provide a " (43)______ strategy” to cut ear crash injuries.
    "(44)____________, that might be useful to people in terms of purchasing a car," says Roger  Vincent. But he adds, "A lot of people will buy things purely on fashion."
    In their study, Furness and her colleagues (45)____________. They also controlled for road conditions and ambient light conditions.
    But Vincent says other factors could be important, such as the way people view different colors, (46)____________.

  
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