Sentences with phrase «fatal accidents this year»

This comes after calls from local officials and residents following two fatal accidents this year.

While most people recognize that distractions are dangerous for drivers and cause thousands of fatal accidents every year, drivers just aren't ready to hang up the phone.

With today's driving distractions causing more and more fatal accidents each year, it's crucial to keep current with the latest methods to protect yourself and your loved ones when you're behind the wheel.

Not exact matches

IATA, which represents about 250 airlines, said in an annual safety report that there were 12 fatal accidents in 2014 with 641 fatalities, versus 19 fatal accidents and 517 fatalities per year in the five - year period between 2009 and 2013.

The fatal accident occurred almost exactly a year after Uber's accident involving a self - driving vehicle in Tempe.

While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal accidents compared with the total number of flights was a record low, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

A 20 - year - old Ohio man, James Fields, said to have harbored Nazi sympathies, was charged with murder, malicious wounding and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

A 27 - year - old man from Zaandam who caused a fatal accident on a country road last October has been jailed for three years and banned from driving for...

If this device can help in many of the fatal accidents that we had in the last 10 - 15 years, we are all happy to implement the device.

In August of the same year Collison entered West Ham folklore by playing in the infamous Millwall League Cup encounter just a few days after his father's fatal motorcycle accident.

Same with lack of sleep — divorced and separated adults get less sleep than married couples, and about 250,000 traffic accidents a year are sleep related, 1,500 fatal, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

3News has gathered that a year on, none of the victims has received insurance compensation from the insurers of the accident vehicle or even the presidency on whose assignment they had that fatal accident.

The region has since January 26 this year been without an ambulance after the only national ambulance serving health facilities in the region was involved in a fatal accident at Beahu in the Ahanta West District, killing four persons.

Other children, like Riverhead teenagers Michael Hubbard and Rashad Jackson who were injured in near - fatal accidents last year, are also at Blythedale for rehabilitation — miles away from their homes.

Fatal or serious accidents on major roads increased by 10 % and on minor roads increased by 17 % when comparing the first quarters of this and last year.

One study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that crash - avoidance technologies could reduce fatal car accidents by one - third, potentially saving many thousands of lives a year.

A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.

Putting these two studies together suggests that a price drop of 19 cents a litre will increase consumption by between 10 and 15 per cent and fatal accidents in Australia by about 400 a year.

That means that even if nothing else killed you — doing away with old age and disease — you would on average live to be 1,743 years old before a fatal accident.

Deaths caused by overdosing on painkillers now surpass murders and fatal car accidents in the US, and over the past five years, heroin deaths have increased by 45 percent.19

Already this year, the three fatal pedestrian - involved accidents have been reported.

I know it's not the same thing but I lost my fiance to a fatal car accident almost two years ago and I have had a hard time getting back into dating.I am getting tired of being alone though so I thought I might give this a try.

SYNOPSIS: Due to a near - fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long - term memory, a temporarily wheelchair - bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by -LSB-...]

Randall Miller will serve two years in prison and eight years on probation for role in fatal accident

Set two years after her fatal car accident, the film picks up as her two sons (played by Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid) and her widow (Gabriel Byrne) are thrown together for the preparation of a new retrospective of her work.

There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier.

Hollywood has been cranking them out for years, and while Ben Younger's «Bleed for This» doesn't do much to stand out from the pack, the film is based on such a great story — five - time boxing champion Vincent Pazienza's miraculous return to the ring after a near - fatal car accident — that it's hard to believe it wasn't made sooner.

Still, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, driver distraction (code for texting while driving) is the cause of 18 percent of all fatal crashes and 23 % of all car accidents, the latter of which equals roughly 1.5 million crashes every year.

But IIHS President Adrian Lund told Automotive News last summer that small - overlap accidents make up one quarter of the 10,000 fatal front accidents in the U.S. each year, as crash forces intrude on areas like wheel wells rather than conventional crumple zones.

When placing my Jeep gear it will jerk real hard, then when pushing on the gas the Jeep will hesitate and lose all power, I too drive to work in heavy traffic I am scared to death that I will be in a fatal accident, last year I took this Jeep to the dealership and explained what the Jeep was doing he explained to me it was bad gas, it now does this a lot, I once again took it into the dealership he explained to me this time that it was the transmission module which of course is not covered in Chrysler wonderful life - time powertrain warranty how Nice this is going to cost me a pretty Penny, so I have been reading on all these complaints about the same problem come on Chrysler recall

In one of the biggest author comebacks ever, master of suspense Greg Iles returns this spring after a five - year hiatus following a near - fatal car accident that resulted in the amputation of part of his right leg.

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27 - year - old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near - fatal accident.

The fatal accident occurs at exactly the same spot where Lucie herself suffered a disabling car accident years before, and the trauma of that event soon resurfaces.

These deaths accounted for 31 % of all fatal car accidents that were reported that year.

There were no fatal accidents involving scheduled passenger flights in the United States in every other year since 2009.

Three years later, Marca - Relli identified Pollock's body for the police after his fatal car accident.

In 1942, he and his wife fled again to Switzerland, where Sophie suffered a fatal accident the following year.

In fact, 2016 is expected to be one of the deadliest Labor Day weekend in years due to a higher than average rate of fatal traffic accidents during the first six months of this year.

After years of review the Alberta government increased the Bereavement amounts arising from fatal accidents, including motor vehicle accidents.

Late last year, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) confirmed in a study what many of us who drive on a daily basis have long suspected — large commercial trucks are overrepresented in the number of fatal vehicle accidents that happen on the road.

In fact, reckless driving causes nearly a third of fatal car accidents across the United States every year.

Richard is a highly experienced lawyer, having spent 20 years handling personal injury claims, industrial disease, fatal accidents, accidents at work and serious assault claims.

Our lawyers have many years of experience helping bereaved families cope with the aftermath of a fatal accident including explaining how the law in Alberta compensates for these types of losses.

Sadly, another fatal Taos car accident recently occurred that has taken the life of a two year old toddler.

Because trucks are such large and heavy vehicles, many serious and fatal accidents occur every year in Virginia and other states.

In 2014, 166 individuals were involved in fatal accidents where one party was drunk, and this year alone 94 people have already perished due to drunken driving across the state.

Smith v Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ors (Rev 2)[2017] EWCA Civ 1916 (28 November 2017)-- Human Rights Act 1998 declaration that Fatal Accidents Act 197 s 1A discriminated against «2 + years» cohabitants.

Families generally have two years from the date of the fatal accident or their loved one's death to file a wrongful death claim.

According to the nation's Department of Transportation, nearly 40,000 fatal motorcycle accidents occur throughout the United States each year.

The Florida portion of the I - 95, which also runs through Georgia, holds the dubious distinction of the most total fatal accidents per year.