The phrase
"fatal crash" refers to a car accident or collision that results in the death of one or more individuals.
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Drivers age 15 to 20 accounted for 10 percent of all drivers involved in
fatal crashes in 2011 and 13 percent of all drivers involved in police - reported crashes.
This new study found they were associated with a 7 percent decrease in the rate
of fatal crashes involving at least one drunk driver.
Recent fatal crashes has made the public less likely to ride in a self - driving car according to a new AAA study.
Women are involved in
more fatal crashes than they used to be because they're driving more.
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fatal crashes between two vehicles, 78 percent of the motorcycles involved were hit in the front and 5 percent were hit in the rear.
The good news is that there were 25
fewer fatal crashes in 2014 than in 2013, and 28 fewer people were killed.
Many fatal crashes involving child occupants are so severe that better child restraints wouldn't have prevented the deaths.
A recent study provides more evidence that graduated driver licensing cuts
fatal crashes among 16 and 17 year - olds and identifies components with large benefits.
Four existing crash avoidance features could prevent 1 of 3
fatal crashes if all vehicles had them.
With the total number of
fatal crashes rising and the number of older drivers increased by 50 percent, there is a real cause for concern.
There weren't
enough fatal crashes to include them in a statistical model that controlled for demographics.
Combined with the young fleet and a operational record
without fatal crashes, I'd consider them safe to fly!
High - speed crashes involving fully - loaded commercial trucks are
frequently fatal crashes, and anyone lucky enough to survive may sustain suffer catastrophic and / or permanent injuries.
The concern about the increase in older drivers being involved in
fatal crashes becomes the main reason for implementing it.
Nearly four percent
of fatal crashes and hundreds of crashes resulting in injury involve sleepy drivers or drivers that have fallen asleep behind the wheel.
Blind spot detection systems don't show as much potential to reduce deaths simply because not as
many fatal crashes are relevant to this technology.
As a result, the number of pedestrian - involved
fatal crashes in work zones may be higher than the number of pedestrians killed in work zones.
Teenagers were the largest single age group that
caused fatal crashes because of distraction at nine percent
Jones and Nicolas Ziebarth of Cornell University used a national database of
fatal crashes from 1975 to 2011 to examine «before» and «after» restraint use and fatalities.
Despite wave of negative publicity
following fatal crash in California, it seems clear that company will rise or fall based on the performance, safety, design and value of its cars.
Changes to British Columbia's laws against driving while impaired have
reduced fatal crashes as well as ambulance calls and hospital admissions resulting from motor vehicle crashes, a new University of British Columbia study finds.
The last
fatal crash on a U.S. - registered carrier occurred near Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 12, 2009, when a commuter plane operated by Colgan Air crashed, killing 49 on board and a man on the ground.
Already, 16 other states have outlawed this habit
after fatal crashes occurred due to texting while...
Previous research by Dr. Brubacher and colleagues found a 40 per cent decrease in alcohol -
related fatal crashes and a 23 per cent decrease in alcohol - related injury collisions in the year after the changes took effect.
Many
fatal crashes happen when drivers unintentionally stray from their lanes and run off the road or collide with another vehicle.
The number of teen drivers involved in
fatal crashes increased more than 10 percent from the previous year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) 2015 crash data, the latest data available.
Statistics showed that the proportion of road operators who were involved in distracted driving
during fatal crashes rose from 7 % in 2005 to 115 in 2009.
Tesla's semiautonomous driver assistance technology has been under scrutiny since a
third fatal crash occurred in late March.
«At best, progress in reducing
fatal crashes as a result of people drinking and driving continues to stall.»
Of 238
fatal crashes where drivers were blamed, 42 % were careless or inattentive, 36 % were hit and run, and 12 % were drunk or drugged.
His subject is the late Ayrton Senna (and if that's a spoiler, this film probably isn't for you), the Formula One driver whose
fatal crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994 traumatised the sport.
According to Boeing, 20 % of
fatal crashes take place during the takeoff or the initial climb into the air.
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Most fatal crashes occur at night, so this takes the teen off the road during the most dangerous hours,» she says.»
More questions were raised about the safety of the company's self - driving technology after a
second fatal crash in which the Autopilot system had been engaged.
Mississippi has the second -
highest fatal crash rate per 100,000 residents (20.5) in the U.S., according to an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data.