The organizations stats also show that 16 and 17 - year - old
driver death rates increase with each additional passenger.
Motorcyclists who ride supersports have
driver death rates per 10,000 registered motorcycles nearly 4 times higher than rates for motorcyclists who ride all other types of bikes.
Driver death rates fall as vehicle size increases, up to a point.
Strong roofs are especially important for sports cars, which have among the highest
driver death rates in single - vehicle rollovers (see «Saving lives: Improved vehicle designs bring down death rates,» Jan. 29, 2015).
That suggests why the sporty Acura RSX, Ford Mustang, Mitsubishi Eclipse and Nissan 350Z had some of the worst
driver death rates.
Driver death rates in frontal crashes declined by about half from 1980 - 81 to 2000 - 01.
In the real world, two of the largest, heaviest passenger vehicles on the road, the Chevy Suburban 2WD, and the Ford Expedition 2WD have
driver death rates higher than the compact Chevy Equinox and Ford Escape.
«The latest
driver death rates show there is a limit to how much these changes can accomplish without other kinds of efforts.»
HDLI and IIHS real - world
driver death rates derived from police reports showed the RX class has effectively earned a zero driver death rate over the most recent three model years studied.
From the early 1980s until 2000, car
driver death rates decreased from 164 to 87 per million cars registered.
Most of this improvement was in frontal crashes, in which
driver death rates decreased from 86 to 41 per million (52 percent decline).
For example,
the driver death rate of the mid-size Nissan Maxima was 49 per million registered vehicle years in 1997, but had dropped to just 28 by 2009.
One way to look at the effect is to look at
the driver death rate of cars past and present.
It is the only model to have been listed as a zero
driver death rate model on this list, and the prior study done that focused on 2011 model year vehicles.
The Toyota Highlander Hybrid AWD was also one of just nine U.S. model vehicles that had a «zero»
driver death rating in a study of real - world accidents over three years.
The average
driver death rate for 1999 - 2002 models was 87 per million registered vehicle years.
Not only does the Legacy line earn the Top Safety Pick Plus rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), but the Legacy was one of only nine vehicles that had a zero
driver death rate in a recent 3 - year study of all U.S. models.
Not exact matches
«An intervention that reduces the involvement of younger
drivers will likely help reduce the
death rate of other age groups,» Kirbiyik said.
All of which means that story number 1 about the
death rate going up among senior
drivers in Florida after they had their vision tested is TOTALL....
In fact the
death rate among
drivers over 80 has dropped in Florida since the state passed a law requiring vision tests for
drivers over 80.
Workers with routine and manual jobs, such as bus
drivers and waiters, have the highest
death rates, while managerial and professional workers like doctors and lawyers have the lowest, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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Young, inexperienced
drivers have the highest accident
rates on the road - they account for 25 per cent of road
deaths, and one in five will crash within their first year of driving.
The bottom line from the data is that smaller cars, minicars in particular, had higher
rates of
driver deaths than larger vehicles.
However, its overall
death rate when it was last reported was a low eight per million miles traveled, which may say more about the average CC
driver than its ability to withstand a crash.
The overall
rate of
driver deaths for data - checked 2014 models, for some perspective, is 30 per million registered vehicles years.
That is the main reason they have higher
death rates per mile traveled than
drivers of other ages.
To examine the effects of the regulatory changes, this study computed
rate ratios (RR) and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI) for passenger vehicle
driver deaths per vehicle registration during 2000 — 2002 at principal impact points of 12 o'clock for 1998 — 99 model year vehicles relative to 1997 models.
While the numbers of
drivers and miles traveled are higher than ever before, injuries and
deaths due to auto accidents are at their lowest
rate in 40 years.
Even though more
drivers are driving more miles than ever before,
rates of injuries and
death on American roads are among the lowest since 1965.
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, between the years 2005 and 2009, there were 33
driver deaths (which is less than half the
death rate for
drivers of cars, SUVs, minivans and pickups).
In an opinion piece for the Winnipeg Free Press, columnist Gwynne Dyer summarized the core of the pro-driverless argument when she stated that «the widespread use of self - driving vehicles almost certainly will bring down the
death rates sharply everywhere, because even if computers can be as stupid as human
drivers, they can not be as impatient or angry or drunk.»
Truck
drivers involved in highway
deaths rate among the highest in this category.
Like age, it's based on statistics: young male
drivers have nearly double the
rate of accidents causing
death compared to female
drivers, and more than double the
rate of fatal accidents involving alcohol.
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drivers are required by law to purchase liability insurance in the minimum amounts of $ 25,000 for bodily injury or
death of one person per accident; $ 50,000 for bodily injury or
death of two or more people per accident, and $ 25,000 for property damage per accident.
The U.S. Navy initiated the AAA
Driver Improvement Program in 1980 and as the graph shows, the Navy experienced a dramatic decline in motor vehicle
death rates for years after introduction of the program.
To put that into perspective, that number is nearly double the national average at 14
deaths per 100,000
drivers, and close to four times the
rate of the safest state in the U.S., which clocks in at 7
deaths per 100,000.