Sentences with phrase «driver deaths»

From the early 1980s until 2000, car driver death rates decreased from 164 to 87 per million cars registered.

In crashes with another passenger vehicle, 51 percent of driver deaths in recent model cars during 2000 - 01 occurred in side impacts, up from 31 percent in 1980 - 81.

The result is that during 2000 - 01 side impacts accounted for 37 percent of driver deaths overall, up from 26 percent in 1980 - 81.

These are reducing driver deaths in cars struck on the near (driver) side by an estimated 37 percent.

Some passenger vehicles have much higher driver death rates than others.

In fact, of the nine vehicles that showed zero driver deaths over a three - year period, seven of the nine could power all four wheels.

The average driver death rate for 1999 - 2002 models was 87 per million registered vehicle years.

The organizations stats also show that 16 and 17 - year - old driver death rates increase with each additional passenger.

Side airbags that protect people's heads are reducing driver deaths in cars struck on the driver side by an estimated 37 percent.

All offer AWD which has been proven to reduce driver deaths.

Driver death rates in frontal crashes declined by about half from 1980 - 81 to 2000 - 01.

To examine the effects of the regulatory changes, this study computed rate ratios (RR) and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI) for passenger vehicle driver deaths per vehicle registration during 2000 — 2002 at principal impact points of 12 o'clock for 1998 — 99 model year vehicles relative to 1997 models.

According to the CDC, «drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18 % of motor vehicle driver deaths.»

Risk ratios for driver death per nearside collision during 1999 — 2001 were computed for head / torso and torso - only side air bags in cars from model years 1997 — 2002, relative to cars without side air bags.

To understand, for example, whether collapsible steering columns in cars prevent driver deaths, it takes data on head - on collisions, says Hemenway, not just motor vehicle deaths in general.

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).

Fifty - seven percent of the car driver deaths involved striking pickups or SUVS, and as the numbers of SUVs and pickups continue to increase so will this percentage.

Head / torso side air bags appear to be very effective in reducing nearside driver deaths, whereas torso - only air bags appear less protective.

With truck driver deaths accounting for 40 % of all worker fatalities in 2016, several companies have already initiated VR training simulations for truck drivers as a way of increasing safety for both drivers and the public with whom they share the roads.

True, other automakers rebounded from scandals that involved actual driver deaths, and VW's algorithmic deception hurt no one physically.

Driver death due to puddles filling the shoe is never good and everyone knows that leather and water don't mesh too well.

Most of this improvement was in frontal crashes, in which driver death rates decreased from 86 to 41 per million (52 percent decline).

«The latest driver death rates show there is a limit to how much these changes can accomplish without other kinds of efforts.»

The rate of rollover driver deaths per million registered vehicles 1 - 3 years old has fallen from 27 in 2000 to 8 in 2011, much faster than the rate of other crash deaths.

That suggests why the sporty Acura RSX, Ford Mustang, Mitsubishi Eclipse and Nissan 350Z had some of the worst driver death rates.

Their efficacy in preventing US driver deaths among cars struck on the near (driver's) side was examined using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System.

In the first study of the real - world effectiveness of head - protecting side airbags, Institute researchers have found they cut driver deaths in side crashes by about 45 percent.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto compared driver deaths on April 20 with deaths occurring on a day of the week before and the week after during the 25 year study of U.S. data.

The effect of the changing vehicle mix and changing risks for occupants in struck vehicles is apparent in the fact that 70 percent of driver deaths in passenger vehicles struck on the driver side by other passenger vehicles during 1980 - 81 occurred when the striking vehicle was another car.

Strong roofs are especially important for sports cars, which have among the highest driver death rates in single - vehicle rollovers (see «Saving lives: Improved vehicle designs bring down death rates,» Jan. 29, 2015).

For example, four - door minicars averaged 87 driver deaths per million registered vehicle years.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Side airbags that protect people's heads are reducing driver deaths in cars struck on the near (driver) side by an estimated 37 percent.

In the combined data set (1990 - 98), gross deformation of the occupant compartment was the leading cause (42 percent) of driver deaths in these 116 frontal crashes.

In the real world, two of the largest, heaviest passenger vehicles on the road, the Chevy Suburban 2WD, and the Ford Expedition 2WD have driver death rates higher than the compact Chevy Equinox and Ford Escape.

The de Blasio administration expressed sympathy for the driver deaths, and said the city is working to achieve solutions to issues plaguing drivers.

The Kia Sorento and the Honda Odyssey 2WD models also had zero driver deaths.

The cars and SUVs that had 4WD and zero driver deaths were the Toyota Highlander AWD, Lexus RX 350 AWD, Toyota Sequoia AWD, Audi A4 AWD, Volvo XC90 AWD, Mercedes Benz GL - Class AWD, Subaru Legacy AWD.

Seventy - one percent of the driver deaths in cars struck on the driver side by other passenger vehicles during 1980 - 81 occurred when the other vehicle was a car.

By 2000 - 01 these percentages had almost reversed — 57 percent of the driver deaths in cars struck on the driver side by another passenger vehicle involved striking SUVs or pickups, while 43 percent involved striking cars (see Attachment 2, Table 2).

HDLI and IIHS real - world driver death rates derived from police reports showed the RX class has effectively earned a zero driver death rate over the most recent three model years studied.

For example, the driver death rate of the mid-size Nissan Maxima was 49 per million registered vehicle years in 1997, but had dropped to just 28 by 2009.

For vehicles 1 - 3 years old during 2006, minicars experienced 106 driver deaths per million registered vehicles compared with 69 driver deaths in large cars.

In 2003 Institute researchers produced estimates of the benefits of side airbags in preventing car driver deaths.

One way to look at the effect is to look at the driver death rate of cars past and present.

It is the only model to have been listed as a zero driver death rate model on this list, and the prior study done that focused on 2011 model year vehicles.

Which specific makes and models had the highest rate of driver deaths?

The Toyota Highlander Hybrid AWD was also one of just nine U.S. model vehicles that had a «zero» driver death rating in a study of real - world accidents over three years.

Other vehicles in the top 15 of driver deaths are as follows (in order): Chevrolet Spark (96), Nissan Versa (95), Ford Fiesta sedan (83), Kia Soul (82), Dodge Challenger (81), Nissan Titan Crew Cab short bed 4x4 (73), Nissan Sentra (72), Ford Focus sedan (68), Chrysler 200 (67), Hyundai Genesis coupe (67), Ford Fiesta hatchback (63), Hyundai Accent hatchback (63).