Sentences with phrase «crash fatalities for»

The California Office of Traffic Safety reported last year that crash fatalities for the state are on the decline.

Not exact matches

NHTSA's evaluation does not include small overlap front - end collisions, which the IIHS blames for about a quarter of the injuries and fatalities in front - end crashes.

Both will want their own way and we know crashes in today's plastic vehicles don't make as loud a noise when the vehicles were made of metal but the fatalities of recklessness and arrogance for not thinking things through to a logical conclusion are the same.

Using a child safety seat or booster seat that's right for your child's age and size can help prevent injuries and fatalities caused by car crashes.

Apart from the Lockerbie bombing (270 fatalities), for which responsibility was accepted by Gadhafi, attacks with more than 50 fatalities in the last 20 years were by Al Qaeda, Islamic State, or non-Muslim far - right inspired individuals (the attack listed as Greek is the bombing of TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York, which happened to crash in Greece but Greece was not the target of the attack).

«The only thing Mayor de Blasio had done was pre-K and Vision Zero,» Malcolm said, referring to free early education opportunities for four - year - olds and the city's plan to cut the number of fatalities from traffic crashes with pedestrians.

The number of alcohol - related fatalities in police - reported motor vehicle crashes has dropped steadily from 750 in 1984 to 292 in 2014, according to the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, according to a Cuomo release.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Tuesday that the number of alcohol - related fatalities in police - reported motor vehicle crashes for the state of New York has dropped steadily from 750 in 1984 to 292 in 2014.

Rodriguez crashed the press conference to criticize Rangel for receiving an endorsement from a group he said opposes efforts to reduce traffic deaths on the same day Mayor Bill de Blasio signed 11 bills into law as part of his Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic fatalities.

According to October 2017 data from the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research in Albany, there were 759 motorcyclist fatalities and over 20,000 injury crashes in New York between 2012 and 2016.

Motorcyclists in the 21 - 29 year age group are most likely to be involved in fatal crashes, and this age group accounts for nearly 30 % of all motorcycle fatalities.

Researchers reviewed child fatalities for those 15 and under involved in 18,116 fatal crashes from 2010 - 2014 using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System.

The study, conducted jointly by researchers at Harvard and UT Southwestern Medical Center, is the first to look at state - level trends in child fatalities involving motor vehicle crashes, and to account for differences in geography and state laws and regulations.

«Although earlier research showed that drug use is associated with impaired driving performance and increased crash risk, trends in narcotic involvement in driver fatalities have been understudied,» said Guohua Li, MD, DrPH, professor of Epidemiology and Anesthesiology and director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention.

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety estimates that an average of 328,000 annual crashes in the U.S. involve a drowsy driver, including 109,000 that result in injuries and 6,400 that involve a fatality.

The findings, reported online this month in Accident Analysis & Prevention, provide one plausible explanation for why injuries and fatalities from motor vehicle crashes have decreased to historic lows even as cellular technology use has increased dramatically.

NHTSA ensures the safety of motor vehicles and highways through highway safety grants to States and through guidance and regulations on States, including the requirement for States to have a performance - based highway safety program designed to reduce traffic crashes, which must include performance measures and targets related to non-motorized fatalities.

Also included in this version, are updates to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data providing crash characteristics and environmental conditions at the time of the crash for more than 34,000 crashes in 2016, and US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) maritime ports data and waterway networks.

There were 10,076 alcohol - impaired crash fatalities in 2013, accounting for 31 % of the overall fatalities.

In 2010, at least 3,092 people were killed in distraction - affected crashes — accounting for approximately one in every ten fatalities on the nation's roadways.

Though the number of fatalities overall was too low for the study to draw a final conclusion, the limited numbers that were available pointed to an 86 % reduction in fatal crashes of these types in vehicles with the system.

Finally, some good news, bad news: Cars are now so safe, already, that for the past decade deaths from motor vehicle crashes per year have dipped below the number of suicides: 32,675 based on the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), versus an estimated 41,000 suicides last year.

To estimate side airbag effectiveness in on - the - road crashes, Institute researchers used data from the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System and General Estimates System to compute the relative risk of dying for drivers of 1997 - 2002 car models with and without side airbags when their vehicles were struck on the left (driver) side.

A just - released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) statistical projection of traffic fatalities for 2015 estimates that 35,200 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes — an increase of about 7.7 % as compared to the 32,675 fatalities reported in 2014.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that far side impact crashes account for 11 percent of fatalities among belted front passengers in non rollover incidents between 2004 and 2009.

For cars, sport utility vehicles, and minivans combined, there was an 11 percent decrease in fatality risk in frontal crashes after changing to sled certification (RR = 0.89; 95 % CI = 0.82 — 0.96).

For the new study, researchers identified crashes from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System in which a child was fatally injured during 2001 while riding in a child restraint.

The authors used a nationally representative sample of police - reported crashes in the United States to show that, after accounting for crash severity, front - seat occupants in vehicles with airbags had higher fatality rates than those in vehicles without airbags.

Chuck Kahane, a former NHTSA researcher, examined 1990 to 2014 crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) for model year 1990 - 2015 vehicles to estimate the effectiveness of safety belts and the relative risk of various seating positions.

Child restraints provide excellent protection, reducing crash fatality risk for infants by more than 70 percent and for toddlers by more than 50 percent, compared with riding unrestrained (see «How can child restraints be improved to save more lives?»

Side impact tests as a crash test for vehicle safety are also very important since side impact accidents in vehicles result in a high fatality rate.

According to a study by the IIHS, small overlap crashes of this type accounted for nearly 25 - percent of frontal crashes resulting in a serious injury or fatality.

But an unpowered descent that crashes short of the runway could kill everyone, whilst a powered descent in a field that you have time to choose and prepare for, may result in far fewer fatalities.

This week, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a new report looking at the increases in pedestrian motor vehicle crash fatalities during 2009 — 16.

Legal sanctions do not appear to have a deterrent effect when looking at rates of hit - and - run pedestrian fatalities and sentencing guidelines for fatal hit - and - run crashes.

According to a report by the Virginia Highway Safety Office, 775 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes in the state in 2012, which accounted for a 1.44 percent increase in traffic fatalities when compared with the previous year.

According to Consumer Reports, rollover accidents account for 30 percent of crash - related fatalities, even though they are only 3 percent of all car accidents.

Such crashes are among the deadliest and account for more than one - third of all traffic fatalities.

Because studies have confirmed that teen drivers are «over-represented» in the statistics for injuries in car accidents as well as fatalities in crashes, there are continuing efforts to try and combat the danger of teenage drivers getting involved in an accident while driving a motor vehicle.

Each year, there are almost 189,000 traffic crashes in the Atlanta metro area, which are responsible for an estimated 550 fatalities and almost 68,000 injuries.

In many Tampa Bay area pedestrian crashes, the negligent actions of drivers are to blame for pedestrian fatalities, including driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, speeding, making illegal turns, and failing to obey all traffic laws and signals.

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.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, nearly one - fourth of all passenger vehicle fatalities resulting from multi-vehicle crashes nationwide involve a large truck.

However when these accidents are caused by preventable factors, the company may be liable for any injuries or even fatalities which may occur when their buses crash.

According to the article, vehicle crashes account for roughly 40 % of all police officer fatalities, and they have been the single largest cause of death for police officers since the mid-1990s.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, helmets can reduce the likelihood of a motorcycle crash fatality by 37 % and head injuries by 69 %, but hardly any states, including Texas, have a universal helmet law.

Rollover accidents have a higher potential for fatality than most other type of vehicle crashes.

There were over 100 fatalities per day in 2016, and motor vehicle crashes were reported as the # 1 cause of death for ages 16 through 23 in the year 2015.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 30 large truck occupants died in motor vehicle crashes in 2013 (the second highest in the country, with Texas coming in first with 87 fatalities)

According to research by the Kentucky Transportation Center of the University of Kentucky, motorcycle crashes accounted for only 1.6 percent of the state's traffic accidents in 2012; however, they were responsible for 6.2 percent of traffic accident injuries, and 13.4 percent of motor vehicle accident fatalities.