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Teenage drivers are over-represented in traffic crash fatalities in the United States.

Recent data reveal sharp increases in motor vehicle crash fatalities in 2015 with the upward trend continuing in 2016.

While it is dangerous to drive at night, the majority of large truck vehicle crash fatalities in 2013 happened in sunlight between 6 AM and 3 PM.

France's extensive speed camera program has cut crash fatalities in the country, a recent analysis finds.

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

The Tesla Autopilot crash fatality in May points to how safe, not unsafe, self - driving cars can be in the future, and how driver assistance features today are at preventing crashes by warning or intervening.

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This is the third public statement by Tesla since the March 23 crash — and its strongest language yet in an effort to distance itself from the fatality.

NHTSA said there have been no reported incidents in the United States involving a Tesla in autopilot mode that resulted in fatalities or injuries since a Pennsylvania crash in July injured two people.

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.

The first fatality related to autonomous driving was registered in Florida, where a Model S that had Autopilot turned on crashed into a trailer truck, killing its driver.

The only other Tesla Model S - related fatality took place in May, when Joshua Brown, a 40 - year - old entrepreneur, crashed his vehicle on a tractor trailer crossing the road in Florida.

The fatal crash in Tempe was the first pedestrian fatality involving a self - driving vehicle in the United States.

Dealing with the F / A -18 E / F Super Hornet fleet, four aircraft were lost (fortunately resulting in 0 fatalities) including the one lost last week: two VFA - 211 F / A -18 F jets from NAS Oceana collided and crashed 25 miles E of the Oregon Inlet, Nags Head, NC on May 26, 2016; earlier this year, on Apr. 21, 2017, a VFA - 137 F / A -18 E crashed during a landing attempt on USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Celebes sea, between Indonesia and the Philippines.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which is also investigating the March 23 crash, found that the first Autopilot - related fatality in 2016 was in part a result of the driver overrelying on Tesla's semiautonomous software, but that Autopilot operated the way it was supposed to.

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.

That NASCAR hasn't had a fatality in one of its three national divisions since 2001 is a testament to its steadfast commitment to safety, including requiring drivers to wear head - and - neck restraints, tracks to install energy - absorbent barriers, and stringent rules covering the construction of cars so that when a crash does occur the driver doesn't bear the brunt of the impact.

In the United States, car crashes are one of the leading causes of child fatalities.

None of the 1,258 crashes in the village last year involved fatalities.

The 40 yellow stars represent the fatalities from United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pa..

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 prime minister's spokesman said David Cameron was «very saddened to learn of the fatalities and injuries in today's helicopter crash».

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.

After two years of major declines in New York City's traffic deaths, the number of people killed in crashes dropped slightly last year while pedestrian deaths rose, leading to questions about whether Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious campaign to eliminate traffic fatalities has stalled.

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.

In a welcome address during the Command's First Quarter retreat held in Uyo on Tuesday, he stressed that the command would improve enforcement and rescue services to reduce road crashes and fatalitIn a welcome address during the Command's First Quarter retreat held in Uyo on Tuesday, he stressed that the command would improve enforcement and rescue services to reduce road crashes and fatalitin Uyo on Tuesday, he stressed that the command would improve enforcement and rescue services to reduce road crashes and fatality.

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.

Last July, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimated that alcohol is implicated in as many as 44 percent of the more than 40,000 annual traffic crash fatalities.

With data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System covering 1994 to 2011, the researchers analyzed fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado and in the 34 states that did not have medical marijuana laws, comparing changes over time in the proportion of drivers who were marijuana - positive and alcohol - impaired.

However, driver inattention is a major factor in road traffic crashes and fatalities.

Uzay Kirbiyik conducted a study of risk factors associated with drivers» survival in head - on vehicle collisions by examining Fatality Analysis Reporting System database records in 1,108 crashes.

It was based on two national data sets used frequently in analyses of motor vehicle crashes: the Fatality Analysis Reporting System; and the National Automotive Sampling System's General Estimates System data sets (2006 - 2010).

The first recorded fatalities occurred in 616 BC when stony meteorites were said to have crashed into chariots killing 10 men.

The number of motor vehicle fatalities involving children under age 15 varies widely by state, but occurrences are more common in the South, and are most often associated with improperly or unused restraints and crashes on rural roads, a new review of child - related auto fatalities shows.

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.

«While we've seen a decrease over the years in motor vehicle fatalities involving people under the influence, the nature of those crashes is changing,» said study author Fernando Wilson, PhD, associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

A crash that results in a fatality occurs only once in every 100 million miles of driving.

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.

«Roadwork sites have high crash rates and there have been numerous fatalities at roadwork sites in Queensland involving workers and public road users,» he said.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health examined the impact texting - while - driving laws have had on roadway crash - related fatalities, and the findings are published in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

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.

Further, these younger drivers are involved in 11 percent of accident fatalities and 14 percent of reported crashes that result in injury.

«We already know that alcohol plays a tragic role in the number of motor vehicle crash fatalities each year.

The program is open to high schools in Michigan counties with the highest number of teen driver crashes involving fatalities and serious injuries.

In Philadelphia, a total of 31 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes during 2012, representing 29 percent of the city's total traffic fatalitiesIn Philadelphia, a total of 31 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes during 2012, representing 29 percent of the city's total traffic fatalitiesin motor vehicle crashes during 2012, representing 29 percent of the city's total traffic fatalities..

Yet, in 2016, 840 bicyclists were killed in crashes in the U.S. — the most annual fatalities since 1991.

That's the primary reason that in 2016, based on vehicle miles travelled, motorcyclist fatalities occurred nearly 28 times more frequently than passenger car occupant fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

Research indicates that it can communicate risks and provide warnings to help vehicles avoid common crashes, amounting to at least a 50 percent reduction in crashes, injuries, and fatalities.