Sentences with phrase «crash fatality risk»
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?»
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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.
«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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
To put this into context, that risk is more than 1,000 times greater than the risk of dying in a car crash in Australia (expressed as fatalities per 100,000 population).
As we discuss in our Increased Risk of Rollover Crashes in SUVs article, more than 60 % of the SUV rollover accidents in 1997 caused fatalities.
Reviewing truck crash data can help drivers, government agencies, personal injury attorneys and others identify risk factors and accident patterns to better determine the influencing factors that lead to injuries and fatalities on America's roadways.
The Impaired Driver Program (IDP)(previously known as Drinking Driving Program (DDP)-RRB- is part of New York State's effort to lessen the incidence of injury, disability, and fatality that results from alcohol and other drug related motor vehicle crashes, thereby reducing the risk of re-offense for an impaired driving offense.
• About 3000 people die each year on our roads • Road traffic incidents are the single biggest killer of young people between 16 and 25 years old • More women between the ages of 16 and 19 die as passengers than drivers • A third of all drivers killed are male and 20 years of age or less • Young drivers have more crashes at night • Young drivers» crash risk increases when only accompanied by their peer group • 17 - 25 year olds are 10 % of drivers but account for a third of all fatalities.