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An even more specific stat is the well publicized fact that teens on their first year of driving get into more accidents than drivers of any other age or experience level.

The use of insurance scoring varies from state to state and company to company, says Gorman, but the insurance industry believes that drivers with long, stable credit records have fewer accidents than drivers who don't.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), 16 - year olds are 10 times more likely to get into accidents than drivers between the ages of 30 and 59.

Studies have shown that married drivers are less likely to get in automobile accidents than drivers who are single.

Statistics show that drivers with tickets and accidents are more likely to have accidents than drivers with clean records.

You can't run away from facts: statistics shows that drivers with previous serious traffic violations are more likely to have recurring accidents than drivers with an accident - free record.

Motorcyclists are far more vulnerable to injury in the event of traffic accidents than drivers and passengers in cars and trucks.

In fact, a motorcyclist is 35 times more likely to be involved in a deadly accident than a driver in a passenger car.

- Drivers who text at the wheel are six times more likely to be involved in a traffic accident than a driver who is driving while impaired by alcohol.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that motorcyclists are 35 times more apt to be killed in a road accident than drivers or passengers riding in other types of vehicles.

Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcycle riders are 30 times more likely to be killed in an accident than drivers and passengers of other vehicles, according to NHTSA data cited by the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety.

Not exact matches

Nothing is worse after a car accident — fender bender or otherwise — than having an argument with the other driver about what really happened.

The fallout from the accident could stall the development and testing of self - driving vehicles, designed to eventually perform far better than human drivers and to sharply reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities that occur each year.

Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.

The baby is 10 times more likely to die than the drunk driver is to even get a ticket or have an accident.

Teen drivers are typically involved in more accidents than more experienced drivers.

Statistics show that 16 - year - old drivers have more accidents per driving mile than any other age.

It is similar to inventing cars that can be driven too fast and then, when the speed causes accidents and deaths, rather than change the cars or retrain the drivers, we invent speed bumps.

«Many passengers tell drivers to speed rather than asking them to slow down», he said, and that they need to voice out against reckless and dangerous driving to avoid accidents.

Drowsy drivers are a bigger risk factor in vehicle accidents than previously thought, according to a new study out today.

For teen drivers, texting while driving creates more fatal accidents than drinking while driving, believe it or not.

Wyatt has said they might give police better pictures of cars and drivers in the case of accidents than the city's regular network of surveillance cameras, often far from the crash and the windshield.

Currently in New York, a driver under the influence of alcohol or drugs may only face a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident, rather than felony charges of intoxicated driving.

Though no life was lost, it was gathered that no fewer than five occupants of the bus, including the driver sustained various degrees of injuries when the bus after struggling to avoid the accident hit the electric pole.

A recent study presenting different accident scenarios found that people were less likely to blame an automated car, even when it was at fault, than a human driver at fault.

For starters, regulators will have to come up with a definition of «safe» — whether that means the machines must drive flawlessly or simply break fewer laws and get into fewer accidents than human drivers do.

Violanti and his colleagues came to this conclusion after looking at accident reports involving more than 100 New York drivers.

Closer to home, there are more than 730 traffic accidents in South Carolina linked to drowsy or fatigued drivers.

Teenage drivers who have a high sensitivity to stress actually have lower rates of car accidents than their more mellow friends.

Even «minimally buzzed» drivers are more often to blame for fatal car crashes than the sober drivers they collide with, reports a University of California, San Diego study of accidents in the United States.

Phillips and his co-authors find that drivers with BAC 0.01 percent — well below the U.S. legal limit of 0.08 — are 46 percent more likely to be officially and solely blamed by accident investigators than are the sober drivers they collide with.

With no driver and fewer accidents, these self - driving taxis will be less expensive to operate than taxis with human drivers.

This is when people think they're less likely than others to have something bad happen to them, and it works across people's expectations — they think their children are going to be geniuses, they feel they are better at their jobs than their colleagues, that they're better drivers than everyone else, and of course, that they will never be in an accident.

True enough, as Thrun posits, most fatal accidents occur due to driver error rather than mechanical failure.

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«Though our vehicles today are safer than ever, drivers tell us they are still stressed about getting in a potential accident,» Jim Farley, Ford president, Global Markets, said in a statement.

Mercedes - Benz has been making strides to make driving safer than ever by introducing new Driver Assistance Systems designed to cut down reaction times and make accident avoidance easier.

This means that the driver receives an earlier warning than previously in the event of imminent danger, such as vehicle in an accident.

Similarly, younger drivers tend to have more accidents than older, more experienced drivers.

The EyeSight Driver Assist setup uses a stereo - camera system developed by Subaru, rather than radar, which integrates adaptive cruise control, pre-collision braking and vehicle lane departure warning to help keep drivers from getting into an accident.

With this system, Mercedes - Benz is making a further contribution towards preventing accidents as, according to studies, around a quarter of all serious road accidents are caused by drowsy drivers — making drowsiness an even bigger cause of accidents than drink - driving.

The new E-Class features even more measures aimed at preventing an imminent accident than its predecessor: Whereas PRE - SAFE ® previously responded to emergency or panic braking — in other words when the driver hit the brake pedal reflexively — the system

Two new driver - assist systems are Multi-around View Monitor, which provides an elevated view of the entire vehicle while parking, and Unintentional Move - Off Control, which is an option for some PHEV variants and mitigates accident damage if the driver accidentally presses the accelerator rather than the brake.

Rear impacts represent a third of all reported accidents - and in more than 50 percent of these accidents, the driver doesn't brake at all.

More than a lap behind the No. 51 Ferrari 458 Italia at the time of the accident, the No. 73 Corvette drivers chased down the class leader.

Citing the need to reduce distracted driving — more than 1,000 people are injured every day in accidents involving distracted drivers, says Subaru — DriverFocus helps keep motorists engaged and involved in the driving process.

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As you are considering purchasing insurance, consider a few factors: first, females generally cost less than males to insure; second, shop around for insurance companies that offer discounts for driver's education classes, good grades, and driving logs; third, as you are insuring teenage drivers, your premiums will be lower if the drivers are occasional drivers; fourth, teenagers have a high accident rate, so consider purchasing high liability coverage and lower comprehensive coverage; and fourth, the type of car teenagers drive — whether it is new, sporty, or exotic — will also determine the premiums.

Speed is one of the most - cited causes of car accidents in the U.S. and certain drivers stand a higher chance of being involved in a crash than others.

This is consistent with the quotes that we gathered that showed GEICO to be more expensive than average for higher - risk drivers who have accidents on their records.