People wearing headphones could die or be seriously hurt

A latest study at the University of Maryland School of Medicine shows that more people are suffering serious injury or death while wearing headphones. The number has tripled in six years.

Researchers sy an increase in the use of headphones while walking in the street has led to a dramatic rise in the number of injuries, with teenagers, men and young adults the most at risk from hurting themselves while their thoughts were elsewhere. They looked at reports from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Google news archives and the Westlaw Campus Research database from Jan. 1, 2004 to June 1, 2011.