An analysis of 14 years worth of
crash data involving Institute - rated vehicles shows that a driver of a vehicle rated good in the moderate overlap test is 46 percent less likely to die in a frontal crash, compared with a driver of a vehicle rated poor.
Not exact matches
In 2017, NHTSA closed a probe into a May 2016 fatal
crash involving a driver using the system and cited
data from the automaker that
crash rates fell by 40 percent after installation of Autopilot's Autosteer function.
In 2017, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed a probe into a May 2016 fatal
crash involving a driver using the system and cited
data from the automaker that
crash rates fell by 40 percent after installation of Autopilot's Autosteer function.
«Based this new analysis of a decade's worth of
data on children
involved in
crashes, policymakers, pediatricians and health educators should continue to recommend as best practice the use of belt - positioning booster seats once a child outgrows a harnessed based child restraint until he / she is at least 8 years of age,» says Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE, co-scientific director of The Center for Injury Research and Prevention and study co-author.
An analysis of US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
data of 870 children
involved in
crashes from 1998 to 2003 found that through 23 months of age, better protection from all
crash types was provided with rear - facing seats.
Uber cars were
involved in more deadly
crashes than yellow cabbies in the second half of 2015, according to
data the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission released.
The number of teen drivers
involved in fatal
crashes increased more than 10 percent from the previous year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) 2015
crash data, the latest
data available.
The research,
involving data on actual driving behavior from over 250 teens, suggests that involvement in a severe
crash may prompt adolescents to engage in safer driving behavior.
This study is based on
data from six U.S. states that routinely performed toxicological testing on drivers
involved in fatal car
crashes — California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.
If any of the 100 test cars are
involved in an accident, the XC90's
data recorder will be able to determine the cause of the
crash and whether the owner, or the autonomous system was driving, Volvo said.
Although 2015 FARS
data indicates that 239 large trucks and 2 buses were
involved in fatal
crashes in work zones, representing a 2 percent decrease from 2014 and indicating some progress is being made by DOT and its partners and stakeholders, DOT efforts must continue toward eliminating work zone
crashes.
The study included
data from claims filed for
crashes in Sweden between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2014,
involving 2010 and later models.
There still is good reason for automakers to stay
involved: When an automaker builds in a
data cellphone for telematics and automated
crash notification, it uses an antenna that works farther in the boondocks that the best smartphone.
Researchers examined claims
data for 3,242
crashes involving passenger cars in Germany during 2002 - 09.
According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
data, one - third of all police - reported
crashes involve a rear - end collision (2013 study).
There are no other sources of real - world
data available to NHTSA that discriminate between
crashes involving heavy vehicles equipped with stability control systems and those that do not.
«According to the complaint, defendants» Class Period statements were materially false and misleading because they failed to disclose and misrepresented the following adverse facts which were known to or recklessly disregarded by defendants: (a) Battlefield 4 was riddled with bugs and multiple other problems, including downloadable content that allowed players access to more levels of the game, a myriad of connectivity issues, server limitations, lost
data and repeated sudden
crashes, among other things; (b) as a result, Electronic Arts would not achieve a successful holiday season 2013 rollout of Battlefield 4; (c) the performance of the Electronic Arts unit publishing Battlefield 4 was so deficient that all other projects that unit was
involved in had to be put on hold to permit it to focus its efforts on fixing Battlefield 4;»
However, statistical
data on two vehicle
crashes that
involved a collision of a large truck with a passenger automobile indicates that the occupants inside the passenger vehicle were at greater risk of dying, and accounted for 97 percent of all deaths.
In 2012, approximately 317,000
crashes involved large trucks, and more than 3,000 of those collisions were fatal, according to
data compiled by U.S. Department of Transportation.
Although the study lacks evidence on whether marijuana was
involved in any of the April 20th fatalities (as there was no police
data on drug testing to confirm that marijuana was
involved), researchers believe that the drug was responsible for some of the
crashes.
A 2010 study that gathered
data on national samples of truck
crashes involving injuries found that nearly one - third of the trucks had conditions that should have required them to be taken out of service, and more than half had at least one mechanical violation.
Based on
data from the City of Chicago, taxis were
involved in 8.4 percent of bicycle
crashes and 6.7 percent of pedestrian
crashes from 2005 to 2010.
That's because insurance companies are looking at
data like this: Drivers between 15 and 20 years old comprise 6.7 percent of the driving population, but they're
involved in 20 percent of all
crashes, according to Safe Roads Alliance.
According to
data collected from various sources, males are more often
involved in car
crashes than their female counterparts.
Implemented a
Data Driven Approach to Address Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS), which involved analyzing crime and vehicle crash data and redeploying police resources to identified hot sp
Data Driven Approach to Address Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS), which
involved analyzing crime and vehicle
crash data and redeploying police resources to identified hot sp
data and redeploying police resources to identified hot spots.