<P> In Finland, a consortium of governmental and nongovernmental organizations led by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health promotes the National Accident Day (kansallinen tapaturmapäivä) to raise awareness about automotive safety, which always falls on a Friday the 13th . The event is coordinated by the Finnish Red Cross and has been held since 1995 . </P> <P> A study in the British Medical Journal, published in 1993, concluded that "' the risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent' on the 13th"; however, the authors state that "the numbers of admissions from accidents are too small to allow meaningful analysis". </P> <P> On the contrary, the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics on 12 June 2008 stated that "fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday than on other Fridays, because people are preventatively more careful or just stay home . Statistically speaking, driving is slightly safer on Friday the 13th, at least in the Netherlands; in the last two years, Dutch insurers received reports of an average 7,800 traffic accidents each Friday; but the average figure when the 13th fell on a Friday was just 7,500 ." </P> <P> In years which begin on the same day of the week and are of the same type (that is, whether they are a common year or leap year), Friday the 13th occurs in the same months . </P>

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