Sentences with phrase «accidents each year caused»

In Shelby County / Memphis alone there are an average of 724 accidents each year caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol.

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The National Transportation Board's final determination on the cause of the accident is likely a year or more away.

Beyond saving lives, consider the money saved (traffic accidents cause $ 500 billion in economic damage worldwide each year), the benefits to cities (parking lots become green spaces), the increases in productivity (commuters can work in transit; truckers can sleep without pulling over), and improvements in accessibility (the elderly, blind, and disabled get affordable robot chauffeurs!).

A 27 - year - old man from Zaandam who caused a fatal accident on a country road last October has been jailed for three years and banned from driving for...

A rash of automobile accidents caused deaths on the busy highway 63 put heavy pressure on the governing Tories last year.

The 29 - year - old was involved in the accident in Amsterdam last week, as the taxi he was travelling in after a concert crashed and ended up causing him injury.

It does suck for him cause it is a freak accident but LW needs some normality after Conor has held it hostage for 2 years and Tony losing his interim title is just part of things happening for a greater good.

It is not a hidden fact that over the years, bouncers have been the cause of a few accidents.

Analysis showed eight years ago, 42 % of all stroller accidents resulted in brain injuries and 55 % of accidents caused by the stroller tipping over.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

A year on, the report of the accident has still not been made public, as both government and the Police have remained tight - lipped on the issue despite public demand for what caused the accident that shook the media sphere.

If «proper procedure» can result in an accident caused by a 13 year old playing on a rail car that has sat unattended for 14 days someone should change the procedure - immediately»

However, Britain is not immune from fatalities, with 1,422 children killed or maimed in deprived areas in 2005, making road accidents the leading cause of death among ten to 25 - year - olds.

Alcohol is a primary factor in the four leading causes of death for young persons, ages 10 - 21, and nearly 100,000 people die each year from alcohol - related causes, including drinking and driving crashes, other accidents, falls, fires, alcohol - related homicides, and suicide.

Approximately 12,000 spinal cord injuries (SCI) happen every year in the U.S., the majority caused by car accidents, falls, sporting accidents and gunshot wounds.

ALTHOUGH A BRAIN INJURY from a car accident or a collision during a football game often seems to cause a sudden change to cognitive ability years later, this change does not just appear out of the blue — the damage has been building up slowly, unnoticed, over time.

A 2002 study supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation concluded that guns are «the second leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 19 ″ — second only to motor vehicle accidents — killing or injuring 20,000 each year.

Each service of the U.S. military posted the lowest number of deaths from motor vehicle accidents in 2012 — although motorcycle - related fatalities continues to be a leading cause of death among service members unrelated to war, according to a new study of a15 - year surveillance period.

Many worry that expanding traffic over the next few years is all too likely to cause an environmentally disastrous accident because the ice won't be completely cleared for decades — it will have cleared just enough that inexperienced mariners will recklessly try to push through.

The skinny on fat: Too little is more dangerous than too much Overweight people are at no greater risk than normal - weight folks of dying from heart disease or cancer and are actually less likely to fall prey to some other causes of death, such as accidents and Alzheimer's, according to freshly analyzed data on 2.3 million adults 25 years and older as of 2004.

Instead, in a chart on page 26 of the report on «expected fatalities per year, worldwide, from a variety of causes,» asteroids are compared with shark attacks (three to seven deaths), firearms accidents (2,500), earthquakes (36,000), malaria (one million), traffic accidents (1.2 million), air pollution (two million), HIV / AIDS (2.1 million) and tobacco (five million).

«Because these are alpha birds, their distribution is such that they have a large territory and their primary cause of death that first year is starvation or accidents, just because they have to learn how to fly and hunt,» Boal said.

Gould and her colleagues compared medical records and parent interviews of children and adolescents who had died between the years of 1985 and 1996, including 564 who had died due to an unexplained heart - rate abnormality or other causes, and 564 who died as passengers in motor vehicle accidents.

I don't think it is ironic that his second son, John was in a car accident after his freshman year at Brown which burned his right arm or, that my son, John during his wrestling match his junior year of high school caused a life - threatening injury to his dislocated right clavicle which required immediate surgery.

I had tried four other types of collagen supplements over the last seven years after car accident causing neck injury..

It took me over 45 years, and it happened quite by accident, but I eventually found the root cause of all my acne, drum roll.......

Deaths caused by overdosing on painkillers now surpass murders and fatal car accidents in the US, and over the past five years, heroin deaths have increased by 45 percent.19

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

Technically, Kenneth Lonergan's remarkable Margaret may not have qualified as a 2012 film (a few people saw it in 2011), but the years he spent in the editing room paid off in this story of a high - strung teenager (Anna Paquin) who causes a horrendous traffic accident.

A more minor thread sees Harry and Lloyd visiting the childhood home of an old friend who, unbeknownst to them, died years ago in a motorcycle accident Lloyd may have indirectly caused.

The connection between them comes into focus, as we learn that real - estate developer Anne Laurant (Isabelle Huppert) has inherited the construction company from her getting - close - to - senile 84 year - old father, Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant), and the negligence of her idiot son, Pierre (Franz Rogowski), may have caused the accident and exposed the company to a damaging lawsuit.

In the past 11 years alone, six adults and three children have been killed in accidents caused by badly installed and poorly maintained automated gates and barriers in the UK and Ireland.

Not really when you consider that accidents are the main cause of death and disability for children in the UK and around 10,000 children are permanently disabled each year by accidental injuries.

Still, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, driver distraction (code for texting while driving) is the cause of 18 percent of all fatal crashes and 23 % of all car accidents, the latter of which equals roughly 1.5 million crashes every year.

Gold Bug, I really don't care if there's only one death a year on the road caused by speeding, the point is that if everyone judged for themselves what they personally considered was safe for them to drive at we all know that the result would be excessive speeds and accidents.

However, even modest assumptions regarding the numbers who are likely to respond leads to an estimation that a system like Driver Alert could prevent a third of all accidents involving a passenger car every year in Europe caused by drowsiness.

I've had my Sentra for less than two years, and the brakes have already locked up more times than I can count (causing an accident one of those times) and they make a weird creaking noise the first few times you use them everyday.

Your Kindle is covered from day one by a 2 - year worry - free guarantee for damage caused by common accidents, including knocking it off a table, dropping it in water, or your dog chewing on it.

Your Kindle is covered from day one by a 2 - year extended warranty provided and sold by SquareTrade for damage caused by common accidents, including knocking it off a table, dropping it in water, or your dog chewing on it.

For around $ 180 a year, you can rest assured that damage you caused to your neighbor through a complete accident would be covered and you won't have to worry about the claim or the defense costs.

Coverage F is intended to pay necessary medical expenses for up to three years from the date of an accident causing bodily injury to a guest who is on the insured location with your permission.

Deer can kill people directly, but auto accidents caused by deer kill 130 people per year.

Healthy Paws was a life saver when our 1.5 year old chocolate lab had an accident which caused him to tear his ACL in his left leg.

Thousands of home fires are caused by pets every year, but there are some simple safety precautions that can help prevent pet - related fire accidents.

«Our research has found that non-accidental injury and motor vehicle accidents cause different patterns of skeletal and soft tissue injury,» says one of the study's lead authors, Nida Intarapanich, fourth - year veterinary student at Cummings School.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about six million auto accidents occur each year in the US, with half of those causing injuries.

dministration, about six million auto accidents occur each year in the US, with half of those causing injuries.

It is actually better for a Florida dive shop to have 5 unsupervised diving deaths a year than have 1 minor supervised diving accident (where, say, a diver has to go to a dive chamber for a few hours treatment, full recovery, and sues dive shop for 50million for «pain and suffering caused»).

Wiilliam Buckley, aged 76 years, died a poor man in 1856 in Hobart as a result of injuries caused in a traffic accident.

But the cause of the accident is still a mystery, and years later, nobody dares step foot in the town for fear of what lies there.