Sentences with phrase «death than a crash»

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But it was more of a death by a thousand cuts than a crash like we see in the stock market.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

More than 46 % of car seats are incorrectly installed in the US and car crashes are the leading cause of death in children.

Head injuries are the leading cause of death and permanent disability in bicycle crashes, accounting for more than 60 percent of bike - related deaths.

«Road crashes are the second leading cause of death for young men after HIV / Aids, and in some African countries more than 70 per cent of those killed on the roads are young breadwinners.

We also have tendencies to conform our opinions to those of the groups we identify with, to fear man - made risks more than we fear natural ones, and to believe that events causing dread — the technical term for risks that could result in particularly painful or gruesome deaths, like plane crashes and radiation burns — are inherently more risky than other events.

Drug overdoses account for more deaths each day than car crashes.

Booster seat - aged children are twice as likely to suffer serious injury or death in a car crash than younger children but a new study shows they may be less likely to have car seats inspected for proper use.

The researchers found that when a crash involved fewer than 50 deaths, Wikipedia readers tended to pay relatively little attention.

A year later, a Long March 3B rocket blew up twenty - two seconds after launch and crashed into a nearby village, with a death toll of more than two hundred.

Crashes with more than 50 deaths, on the other hand, were identified as high - impact events.

Moreover, people other than the drinking driver account for nearly 40 percent of victims in drunk driving crash deaths, the authors noted.

This is why suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death, why a full third of employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and why more than half of all «millennials» (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night with insomnia.

That's higher than the risk of death from a plane crash, but flights begin with emergency procedures for «what if»?

Twice as many 10 - to 14 - year - olds are committing suicide today than a decade ago, and suicide now accounts for more middle school student deaths than car crashes.

Since 1975, deaths among bicyclists 20 and older in motor vehicle traffic crashes have more than tripled.

Based on 2007 - 2011 crash data, 84 of the estimated 267 annual deaths in backover crashes in the United States were children younger than 5, and 70 deaths were people 70 and older.

The rate of motor vehicle crash deaths per million children younger than 13 is less than a quarter of what it was in 1975.

An Australian review of deaths of children younger than 5 in low - speed vehicle run - over crashes, including backovers, found that more than 80 percent were children younger than 3.

Almost 10,000 occupant deaths occur each year in side impact crashes, and head injuries cause more than half of these deaths.

Vehicles roll in just 2 percent of crashes, but these crashes account for more than a third of passenger vehicle occupant deaths.

However, its overall death rate when it was last reported was a low eight per million miles traveled, which may say more about the average CC driver than its ability to withstand a crash.

It's also profoundly safe, with an overall death rate significantly lower than the average (the lowest in this class of cars, actually), a Top Safety Pick rating from the IIHS, and an overall five - star crash rating from NHTSA.

About 9,600 people were killed in side impacts in 2002, and in crashes between two passenger vehicles more driver deaths now occur in vehicles struck in the side than in the front.

In crashes involving newer model cars in collisions with other passenger vehicles, more driver deaths now occur in cars struck in the side (51 percent) than in the front (44 percent).

«Nearly every new car performs well in other frontal crash tests conducted by the institute and the federal government, but we still see more than 10,000 deaths in frontal crashes each year,» said Adrian Lund, the institute's president.

my lucky penny tells me we'll get a quick spike to 1249 as the final bears capitulate when we have an up Sep rather than a down one, Oct 9, then we get crushed in a trade war / dollar crash / inflation / lack of growth death spiral....

The roguelike structure is more stressful than entertaining, mostly because death can await at any turn, including via game - crashing bugs caused by errors in the programming.

It is worth noting that a Tesla vehicle is over five times less likely to experience a fire than the average gasoline car and that there have been zero serious injuries or deaths for any reason ever, fire or otherwise, in a Model S. Over the course of more than 100 million miles driven in almost every possible terrain, weather and crash conditions, the Tesla Model S has consistently protected its driver and passengers, achieving the best safety track record of any car on the road.

In the same way, that truck crashes are usually more serious than car accidents, truck accident cases are also typically more complex and involved than car accident claims, especially if a wrongful death claim must be filed due to a fatality.

True, car crash survivability rates are even higher (when you consider all car crashes, including so - called «fender benders»), but given that car crashes happen so often, the smaller fatality rate still translates to far more deaths by automobile than by airplane.

Although crashes involving pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists are less common than car accidents in Chicago (accounting for 1.7 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.5 percent of the total crashes in Illinois, respectively), these accidents are more likely to cause serious injury or death.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (the CDC), in the U.S., more than 10,000 people die each year in drunk driving crashes (that's about thirty people per day), accounting for roughly 1 / 3rd of the total deaths that result from traffic accidents each year in the United States.

They are responsible for more deaths among older teens than almost anything else but car crashes affect people of all ages.

To be sure, not only does speeding lead to crashes that cause injuries and death, but the annual economic cost related to speed - related incidents totals more than $ 40 billion.

The law in Illinois is that any driver involved in an Illinois traffic crash must file a traffic crash report with the State of Illinois within 10 days of the accident if the accident resulted in a death, injury, or more than $ 1,500 in property damage — 625 ILCS 5/11-408.

More than two million injuries and 40,000 deaths per year result from car crashes, according to government statistics.

In fact, according to the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 80 percent of all reported motorcycle crashes result in injury or death to the motorcyclist.

A trial for two individuals injured in the crash will proceed as planned in early April, Walton said, since the stakes are lower than in the wrongful death cases and, as a result, the prejudice wasn't as much of a problem.

While any type of crash can lead to injuries or even death, some forms of collisions are more likely to cause harm than others.

Investigators realized the product defect included more than just the floor mats after a family of four suffered wrongful deaths when their Avalon crashed into a lake.

The facts are startling... Car crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens (more than 1 in 3 deaths in this age group).

Rollover accidents account for approximately 3 % of all car accidents, but they result in more than 30 % of deaths in these crashes.

These types of crashes are considered more dangerous than most any other type of auto wreck because they result in greater injury and a higher risk of death for victims.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bicyclists are at a greater risk of crash - related injury and death than the people who are operating or passengers in motor vehicles.

The facts show that motor vehicle collisions are the biggest cause of teen death across the country with more than 5,000 teens dying every year in a crash.

For the last 40 years, the annual number of male crash deaths has been more than twice the number of female crash deaths.

More than half of the crashes that cause injury or death happen:

More than 5,000 teens are killed in car accidents every year, making fatal auto - related crashes the number one cause of teen deaths, according to organizers of National Teen Driver Safety Week.

What this means is that if the policyholder dies in a private plane crash, rather than during a commercial flight, or if they get aviation - related injuries in a private aircraft, their beneficiary could not claim the death benefit.