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Do late-night European soccer games cause car crashes in Asia, according to Chris Barnes?

Answered from Do You Have Trouble Sleeping? · Hidden Brain · 2026-10-19

Chris Barnes and co-author Sam Yam of the National University of Singapore found spikes in car crashes in Singapore and Taiwan after major European soccer matches, which air in the middle of the night in Asia. Fans stay up to watch live and lose sleep, and crash risk rises the next day. The effect grew with the popularity of the teams playing. The data came from a large Singapore taxi company and from records of all auto crashes in Taiwan over several years.

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