Sentences with phrase «fatal than accidents»

Accidents involving male drivers are more fatal than accidents involving women drivers.

Not exact matches

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).

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

Less than a month after a fatal accident occurred with a Tesla Model X using its Autopilot feature, another accident almost occurred in the same spot.

More than 40 percent of all fatal auto accidents are alcohol - related.

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.

But for me personally, I'd rather risk an accident (even potentially a fatal one) than risk the possible negative impact on emotional health.

In the wake of serious and fatal accidents caused by speeding, Cuomo pushed to require that anyone charged with driving more than 20 mph over the speed limit receive additional «points,» which results in higher car - insurance bills.

For teen drivers, texting while driving creates more fatal accidents than drinking while driving, believe it or not.

No fewer than seven people are feared dead and four injured in a fatal accident that took place in Osara Adavi Local Government of Kogi State...

No fewer than 25 people have just lost their lives in a fatal accident that occurred Kogi State involving a tanker conveying fuel and an eighteen seater bus coming from the North.

Even «minimally buzzed» drivers are more often to blame for fatal car crashes than the sober drivers they collide with, reports a University of California, San Diego study of accidents in the United States.

If all this weren't enough, Mannix also has to contend with twin gossip columnists (played by Tilda Swinton) who are circling the studio in search of scandal; a near - fatal accident involving a film editor (Frances McDormand); an accountant (Jonah Hill) enlisted to see whether the pregnant ingénue can legally adopt her own child; and a song - and - dance star (Channing Tatum) harboring more than one Big Secret.

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is based on John Callahan's autobiography of the same name, and it sees Joaquin Phoenix playing the man whose life was changed by a near fatal car accident, confining him to a wheelchair, and leading him down a completely different path than he ever intended to take.

To cite only one example — which includes a spoiler — how likely is it that the racist white cop (Matt Dillon) who gropes a well - to - do black woman (Thandie Newton) while pretending to search her for weapons one night will be the officer who rescues her from a potentially fatal car accident less than 24 hours later, or that during the same time frame his partner will save her husband from being shot by another policeman?

There is a murder (revealed in the third act) and a fatal church - bell - related accident (witnessed in the first), but the afterlife in «Coco» is a warm and hectic place, more comical than creepy.

True enough, as Thrun posits, most fatal accidents occur due to driver error rather than mechanical failure.

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.

Surprisingly, more fatal accidents occur in July and August than any other months.

But people in the lower - priced ABS cars were in 19 percent more fatal single - vehicle crashes on dry roads than non-ABS cars and 44 percent more fatal single - vehicle accidents on dry roads.

The lower - priced ABS cars were in 22 percent fewer fatal multiple - vehicle accidents on dry roads than non-ABS cars and 13 percent fewer on wet roads.

They were involved in 74 percent fewer fatal pedestrian accidents than non-ABS cars on wet roads and 14 percent fewer on dry roads.

$ 28,000 is much lower than my ridiculous high of $ 44,000 spent in 2013, which included $ 20,000 in unexpected expenses like recovering from a near - fatal accident, my $ 10,000 passport saga, supporting my (ex) partner, and more.

And while the verdict on Fukushima is still not definitive, the latest report on the accident predicts no direct deaths and a much lower exposure to radiation for the surrounding population than that purported to lead to fatal cancers.

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.

The time of day that sees the most amount of fatal bike accidents is the three hours between 6 and 9 p.m., when more than 20 percent of bike accident deaths occur.

This percentage was higher than fatal car crashes or truck accidents involving drunk driving.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 22 percent of teenage drivers involved in fatal automobile accidents had been drinking, and that the occurrence of teen drinking and driving is higher for males than females.

News reports have indicated that poor road design or conditions played a role in more than half of all fatal automobile accidents in the United States, resulting in more deaths than any other single factor, including speeding, drunk driving, and not using seat belts.

In fact, the number of fatal Orange County car accidents has increased by more than 20 percent since 2012:

Add to that the fact that trucks are often much larger than passenger vehicles and the possibility exists for these accidents to cause severe, potentially fatal injuries in a matter of seconds.

The National Transportation Safety Board found that so - called curbside bus companies, which pick up riders on sidewalks rather than in terminals, were involved in fatal accidents at seven times the rate of traditional carriers like Greyhound.

Each year, there are more than 300 reported fatal truck accidents in California.

Research shows that during the first 6 months of a teenager driving a vehicle, they are EIGHT TIMES more likely to die in a fatal car accident than a more experienced driver.

Super Bowl Sunday is one of the deadliest days on roadways across the U.S.. It's estimated that more than half of all fatal car accidents that happen on this football Sunday are alcohol - related.

Not only that, but in 2012 alone, 71 teenagers were killed in car accidents in Illinois and teen drivers were involved in more than four percent of all fatal accidents in the state.

This specific statistic indicates that fatal car accidents were more common last year than the year before with all factors considered.

While plane crashes are much less common than any other type of accident, they are often the most fatal.

More than 7,000 of these accidents result in serious and potentially fatal injuries each year.

Nationwide, fatal motorcycle accidents have increased every year for more than a decade and have reached epidemic proportions; Each year, 1 in every 7 fatal traffic accidents nationwide is the result of a motorcycle accident, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

In rural areas, where speed limits are higher, the risk of a fatal accident for a motorcyclist is much higher per kilometre than the driver or passenger of any other motorized vehicle.

This is more than the 60 days without fatal accidents that were reported in 2013.

Report: More Fatal Motorcycle Accidents in Maine So Far Than in All of 2016, Oct. 18, 2017, Bangor Motorcycle Accident Attorney Blog

Furthermore, the study showed that teen drivers are more likely than any other age group to be involved in a fatal car accident caused by distracted driving.

Accidents with trucks that typically weigh more than 80,000 pounds often cause long - term and sometimes fatal injuries to the drivers of other vehicles.

There is nothing more tragic than having your loved one taken away from you in a fatal accident.

Each year there are more fatal car accidents in the state of California than any other U.S. state.

Motorcyclists are 37 times more likely to sustain fatal injuries in an accident than occupants in the other vehicle.

Report: More Fatal Motorcycle Accidents in Maine So Far Than in All of 2016, Oct. 17, 2017, Maine Auto Accident Lawyer Blog

By their very nature, SUV rollover accidents are more dangerous than typical automobile accidents as head injuries are the most common fatal and nonfatal injury in rollovers.