Sentences with phrase «killed by vehicles»

Close to 70 percent were killed by school buses and another 7 percent were killed by vehicles functioning as school buses.
An unusually high number of pedestrians were struck and killed by vehicles in Toronto over the first three months of 2018, raising concerns among safety advocates, city planners, and personal injury lawyers.
Two of the decedents were struck and killed by vehicles.
[A] study, by two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2007, found that daylight time has a significant impact on the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the immediate aftermath of the time switch in the fall.
April saw nine Florida panthers killed by vehicles — the highest toll since officials have been trying to restore populations of the endangered cat.
On the other hand, the law also frowns upon the careless owners of the animals injured or killed by vehicles.
On July 14, 2012, his wife Elizabeth was struck and killed by a vehicle while cycling on a highway in Prince Edward Island.
Bodily injury liability covers other drivers and passengers that are injured or killed by your vehicle.
While this is the first time a pedestrian has been hit and killed by a vehicle being driven autonomously, it's not the first death attributable to a vehicle being driven by a computer.

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Disruptive innovation: Tesla (TSLA) floored the German luxury car incumbents by commercializing an incredibly high - performance electric vehicle just seven years after the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?
Barcelona (AFP)- A British - Australian boy aged seven who had been reported as missing by his grandfather was killed in the vehicle rampage in Barcelona, his family and Spanish officials said Sunday.
It's still a standard «platformer» game — you start on the left side of a level and traverse it by moving to the right, killing enemies and avoiding your own death along the way — but «Super Mario Land» is full of delightful additions, like an underwater vehicle you get to pilot.
Waymo's application also comes a weeks after a woman was killed by a self - driving Uber vehicle in the first accident of its kind.
A woman in Arizona has died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber in what is believed to be the first time a pedestrian has been killed by an autonomous vehicle.
TEMPE, Ariz. — The family of a woman killed by an Uber self - driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a potential legal battle over the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.
The incident appears to be the first time a pedestrian has been killed by an autonomous vehicle, and it is sure to ignite debate about the ethics, safety, and legal culpability of the technoogy.
A woman in Arizona has become the first pedestrian to be killed by a self - driving car after being struck by an Uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode.
Nvidia (NVDA.O), by contrast, added another day of losses after the chipmaker temporarily suspended self - driving tests across the globe after an Uber UBER.UL autonomous vehicle killed a woman.
PHOENIX — The family of an Arizona woman killed when struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle apparently has reached a settlement with the company.
The family of 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg, who was killed earlier this month when she was hit by one of Uber's self - driving vehicles in Tempe, Arizona, has reached a settlement with the ride - hailing giant, an attorney for the family said Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self - driving car operated by the company struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz..
Libyan rebel forces are saying that NATO bombers killed at least 13 rebel fighters after they mistakenly attacked a group trying to take some vehicles and weaponry discarded by Col. Gadhafi's forces.
A video of Coeymans police killing a rabid raccoon last Monday by chasing it down and running over it over with their vehicles that went viral spurred a call for statewide animal control reform.
«The accident was caused by speeding by the driver of the Nissan Quest commercial vehicle, who rammed his car into a moving Iveco truck from behind, killing all the occupants,» he said
More than 30 British service personnel have been killed while patrolling in the vehicles, which have now been replaced by Mastiff armoured vehicles.
Following a swift response to distress calls, the Police in the federal capital territory have arrested two members of an armed robbery gang that invaded Pyakasa, a suburb located along the Airport Road Abuja killed 6 persons and snatched two vehicles, a Toyota Venza and Mercedes ML jeeps stolen by the robbers.
Monday was a sad day for the university town of Nsukka in Enugu state as three persons were killed in different locations by two articulated vehicles...
It would be the first such change since 1965, when a 70mph top speed was imposed and four times as many people were killed on British roads by far fewer vehicles.
«So, as they approached the camps, the terrorists opened fire and killed about 15 of the Civilian JTF, while the other nine who were spiritually charmed against gunshots were killed by using their vehicles in crushing them.
Many are hunted illegally, struck by vehicles or legally killed by governmental agencies as a means of protecting livestock.
The bug - killing system devised by Rentokil turns infested premises or vehicles into temporary ovens.
A 2002 study supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation concluded that guns are «the second leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 19 ″ — second only to motor vehicle accidents — killing or injuring 20,000 each year.
By the 1960s motor vehicle accidents killed more than 50,000 people a year.
In 2012, 557 child and young adult pedestrians under age 20 were killed by motor vehicles in the U.S. and 22,000 were injured, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
One question asked respondents to rate the morality of an autonomous vehicle programmed to crash and kill its own passenger to save 10 pedestrians; the rating dropped by a third when respondents considered the possibility of riding in such a car.
«Many of the insects had been killed by passing vehicles, others were cannibalistically scavenging upon the bodies,» he says in an interview with thepoultrysite.com.
A teen girl limping along a road is stopped by a police officer who tries to help her until his throat is slit (we see pulsating blood) and he falls, crawls while gurgling and dies; the teen girl enters the police car, followed by the attacker, who slashes at her several times with a carving knife and the girl picks up a rifle and shoots the attacker, blowing her out of the vehicle onto her back (we see blood), pulls the mask off the attacker and fires a rifle into her abdomen killing her in a puff of smoke (we see no additional blood).
Yelchin was killed in June 2016 at age 27 when he was pinned by his sport utility vehicle after it rolled down the driveway of his Los Angeles home.
On November 19, 2005, a roadside bomb detonated by Iraqi insurgents exploded under a vehicle killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, while wounding a couple of his comrades.
While Death Road to Canada is about killing zombies and technically doesn't even take place in Canada, a game with Canada in the title, where a vehicle drives in, often running over zombies as it enters or leaves, is s one of those associations that's best avoided by a publisher with an otherwise non-controversial game.
On Nov. 13, a tractor - trailer operated by Patterson in Rockingham County, Virginia crossed the center line and overturned onto a passenger vehicle, killing the driver.
VW's «kill - switch» software, the EPA alleges, can determine whether or not a car is being tested by the steering wheel angle, the vehicle's speed and by barometric pressure, said Cynthia Giles, the agency's assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
4) Volvo's vision for safety is to ensure that by 2020 no person riding in a Volvo vehicle will be seriously injured or killed.
This time it's much worse to the point think might get sued by another motorist or get killed because it's very dangerous driving will not purchased another Mazda again after all these bad electronics having out a vehicle brought last year has 15,000 miles this will be the 3rd time taking it back into dealership for a bad issue.
Volvo also reiterated its Vision 2020 goal in which no one will be killed or seriously injured in a Volvo vehicle by 2020.
A profile of vehicles driven by teenagers killed in crashes was developed.
«Each year millions of birds and small animals are killed — not by guns or boats or vehicles but by CATS, free - roaming or feral cats,» states a flier distributed on Key Largo by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
If being hurled on to the street does not kill or injure your dog, being struck by another vehicle probably will.
Cars and Pets Cats love to warm up underneath car hoods.If your car is kept outdoors, or if cats have access to your garage, be sure to pound on the hood of the car prior to turning the ignition.Many cats are killed or injured grievously by fan belts and moving engine parts.Also, pets should not be left alone in vehicles due to the potential for carbon monoxide poisoning or hypothermia.
If you have a history of violating the law or losing, giving away, or selling animals, or having your animals injured or killed by moving vehicles, we may not give you an animal depending on the specific circumstances.
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