Watch out: Deaths commonly occurred when selfie-takers fell off buildings or cliffs, were struck by trains, killed by animals or fell into bodies of water and drowned.
The careless selfie has joined texting-while-driving as the latest high-risk, digital-age phenomena to have a rising body count.
A research team including two Carnegie Mellon University students documented 127 deaths worldwide and many more injuries that occurred while people clicked selfies. Their study posted Nov 7 on arXiv – a Cornell University online repository of scientific studies – has drawn expansive media attention.
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