Sentences with phrase «fatal crashes»

However, truck drivers who operate tractor - trailers, semi-trucks, or 18 - wheelers, have an even greater duty to drive in a way that minimizes the risk of accidents because of their potential to cause severe or fatal crashes.

Teenagers were the largest single age group that caused fatal crashes because of distraction at nine percent

Adding in factors such as commercial trucks, rush hour traffic and road construction creates a recipe for serious or fatal crashes.

According to the NHTSA, 31 % of all fatal crashes in 2008 involved speeding nationwide.

January and February are two months of the year when we see more car accident fatalities on the roads of British Columbia, and in Burnaby two fatal crashes recently occurred within 48 hours of each other.

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.

We have also handled cases involving irresponsible motorists who fled accident scenes involving catastrophic and fatal crashes.

Below you'll find the states with the 10 highest average blood alcohol levels in drivers involved in fatal crashes since 1994:

From studies conducted in 2009 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving was the cause of 16 % of fatal crashes and 20 % of injury crashes.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers, and about one - fourth of these fatal crashes are the result of an underage alcohol - impaired driver.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 10 percent of fatal crashes and 15 percent of injury crashes in 2015 were caused by distracted driving.

It is estimated that 40 % of all fatal crashes between a motorist and bicyclist involve collisions from behind.

The car accident lawyers in Richmond at Preszler Law can assist with all types of insurance claims and legal needs for victims who have sustained injuries and damages, as well as for the families of victims of fatal crashes.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, per 100,000 vehicles involved in a crash, just over thirteen cars were involved in fatal crashes, while that number increases to over 72 for fatal motorcycle wrecks.

Illinois also has a disproportionate amount of fatal crashes due to speeding compared to the national average.

We have defended the world's leading deicing equipment manufacturer against multiple claims arising from fatal crashes of cargo and private flights involving deicing equipment installed on Cessna 208B Caravan aircraft.

Just last week, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board released statistics showing in 2016 fatal crashes on privately owned aircrafts was at...

In 2016, there were 1,001 fatal crashes and 1,080 traffic - related deaths in Illinois.

The good news is that there were 25 fewer fatal crashes in 2014 than in 2013, and 28 fewer people were killed.

The estimated total cost for heavy truck crashes in 2012 was $ 99 billion; $ 40 billion in fatal crashes, $ 38 billion in injury crashes, and $ 21 billion in property - damage only crashes.

A recent article published in the Denver Post reports that fatal crashes have increased by 30 percent in the state over the past three years.

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A Fox News analysis of fatal crashes over a five - year period showed that the 15 Freeway is one of the top 10 most dangerous roads.

The simplest explanation is that some drivers are impaired by cannabis use, and these drivers are contributing to fatal crashes.

Out of the 30,800 fatal crashes in 2012, 3,702 (12 %) involved at least one heavy truck, and out of the 5,584,000 nonfatal crashes in 2012, 367,000 (6.6 %) involved at least one heavy truck.

Most of the fatal crashes involving large trucks occurred in rural areas (64 percent).

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that about 70 percent of fatal crashes are run - off - road crashes where a moving vehicle leaves the road and strikes the shoulder, median, person, or vehicle on the roadside.

Accidents involving semi trucks can happen anytime and anywhere, even on rural roads, where 64 percent of the fatal crashes occur, truck accident statistics show.

In fatal crashes involving a passenger vehicle and a large truck, 98 percent of the deaths were occupants of the passenger vehicles.

In 2010, 35 % of all motorcyclists involved in fatal crashes were speeding, compared to 23 % for passenger car drivers, 19 % for light - truck drivers, and 8 % for large - truck drivers.

In 2015, of the 48,613 drivers involved in fatal crashes, there were 9,649 (20 %) who were alcohol - impaired.

These dangerous, enormous vehicles can cause fatal crashes almost instantaneously.

Roughly 40 percent of the fatal crashes are alcohol - related.

For drivers 21 to 24 years old who were involved in fatal crashes in 2012, 50 percent of speeding drivers had BACs of.08 g / dL or higher, compared with only 24 percent of non-speeding drivers.»

In 2013, the NHTSA estimates that «distraction - affected» crashes accounted for 10 % of all fatal crashes and 18 % of all injury crashes.

In contrast, only 13 percent of the non-speeding drivers under 21 involved in fatal crashes in 2012 had BACs of.08 g / dL or higher.

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Statistics also show that young men are the most likely to be involved in a speeding related accident, with men ages 21 - 24 being involved in fatal crashes 37 percent of the time.

Sadly, however, head - on collisions still account for 10 percent of the U.S.'s fatal crashes, even though 2005 United States statistics show they comprise only 2 percent of all crashes.

In 2012, 28 percent of the speeding drivers under age 21 who were involved in fatal crashes also had BACs of.08 g / dL or higher.

Large trucks were much more likely to be involved in a fatal multiple - vehicle crash — as opposed to a fatal single - vehicle crash — than were passenger vehicles (82 percent (82 %) of all large trucks involved in fatal crashes, compared with 58 percent (58 %) of all passenger vehicles).

From 1992 to 2002, the number of large trucks involved in fatal crashes has increased by up to 10 % due to driver fatigue, unsafe vehicle operation, large, unstable loads or defective equipment.

3 In fatal crashes between two vehicles, 78 percent of the motorcycles involved were hit in the front and 5 percent were hit in the rear.

In a recent study entitled «Prevalence of High BAC in Alcohol - Impaired Driving Fatal Crashes,» it was found that pickup truck drivers accounted for 25 percent of alcohol - impaired drivers in 2010.

Last week Gov. Tom Wolf (D) signed a bill that criminalizes the practice, and allows courts to mete out penalties of up to five years behind bars for a non-drivers texting with drivers involved in fatal crashes.

A majority (39 percent) of the motorcyclists killed in fatal crashes were not wearing helmets at the time of impact.

Most of the fatal crashes involving large trucks occurred in rural areas (65 %), during the daytime (66 %), and on weekdays (79 %).

Sadly, 65 % of those fatal crashes had the driver of the child passenger's car had a drunk driver and most of these child passengers were not properly buckled up at the time of the accident.

35 percent of drivers get less than the recommended seven hours sleep every night and drowsy driving contributes to more than one in five fatal crashes in the US each year.

In Citylab, Sarah Goodyear looks at the situation in Dallas, where 24 of the 32 fatal crashes were attributed to «pedestrian failure to yield.»