Sentences with phrase «many accident fatalities»

Almost 100 million U.S. - operated airline flights had operated in the country since the last accident fatality.

Researchers from the University of Seville have analysed alcohol consumption in traffic accident fatalities in the European Union.

Further, these younger drivers are involved in 11 percent of accident fatalities and 14 percent of reported crashes that result in injury.

How does seatbelt use affect accident fatalities?

California's boating accident fatality rate is 6.1 deaths per 100,000 registered boats, which is in line with the national rate of 6.2.

Predicting these effects is essential to predicting how the standards will affect accident fatalities.

With more and more people on the roadways, there will naturally be more and more car accidents, and more auto accident fatalities.

Fortunately, bus accident fatalities have been decreasing, but even small injuries may entitle you to compensation.

With fewer than 100 deaths resulting from truck related accidents between 1996 - 2000, the truck accident fatality rate is at the lower end of the scale for this state, but there are also numerous injuries caused by these accidents, some of them quite serious.

In fact, many states and municipalities across the country have passed laws making seatbelt use mandatory to prevent automobile accident injuries and car accident fatalities.

Failure to yield accidents often involve head - on collisions, a leading cause of motorcycle accident fatalities.

An article in the Chicago Tribune entitled «Pedestrian deaths in Chicago are up despite safety measures» details how Illinois pedestrian accident fatalities increased from 49 deaths in 2007 to 56 pedestrian fatalities in 2008.

While these collisions are often viewed as uncommon, statistics actually show that up to 35 percent of all motor vehicle accident fatalities occur in rollover accidents.

However, statistics indicate that 1979 had the highest incident rate of truck accident fatalities since U.S. crash data was first collected in 1975.

Many of these accidents are a result of drunk driving, which is also the leading cause of car accident fatalities in America each year.

Their inability to come to stop quickly is often a leading factor of many truck crashes especially when other motorists are driving erratically or the trucker is negotiating slippery, wet or icy road surface conditions.Faulty truck brakes and defective tires cause many accident fatalities as does fatigue by truck drivers hurrying to deliver their load on schedule.

This is about a 2 % increase from the motorcycle accident fatalities in 2010.

The government of Alberta's office of Traffic Safety produced a 2015 Traffic Safety Plan which indicates a progressive decrease in overall car accident fatalities and serious injuries since 2007.

Nelson County has already seen between six to 10 car accident fatalities so far in 2016, with the whole of Kentucky seeing almost 500 fatalities halfway through the year.

In 2010, Florida alone saw more than 235,000 crashes and more than 2,400 car accident fatalities.

Notably, the Center for Disease Control's stats indicate that 20 % of pedestrian accident fatalities nationwide involve seniors.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 4,957 motorcyclists became motorcycle accident fatalities in 2012, a seven percent increase over 2011.

While all of the above factors may contribute to pedestrian accident fatalities, a Palm Springs police spokesman believes the number one contributing cause of pedestrian - vehicle collisions is a «lack of attention» on the part of both pedestrians and drivers.

According to a 2015 report by the World Health Organization (as reported in Forbes), South Africa has the most dangerous roads in the world, with 25.1 accident fatalities per 100,000 people.

According to California Highway Patrol data, there are three common factors in most pedestrian accident fatalities occurring in Riverside County.

After dipping to the lowest rate of car accident fatalities since World War II, California has seen a steady rise in car accident deaths over the past decade.

It is an unfortunate fact that over 30 % of car accident fatalities are caused by drunk drivers.

Across the United States, motorcycle accident fatalities in states without universal helmet laws were 10 times more likely to occur than in states that have adopted such a law.

In 2013, two out of five auto accident fatalities over Saint Patrick's Day weekend involved drunk drivers.

The GHSA's Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State, using 2016 preliminary data, reveals a 25 percent increase in pedestrian accident fatalities in the U.S. between 2010 and 2015.

That's surprising a lot of officials because the number of overall motor vehicle accident fatalities is sitting at its lowest level since 1949, according to the Motorcyclist.

Given that the first quarter of 2012 alone is the impetus for the rest of the year's dramatic increase in auto accident fatalities, it is easy to assume the worse for the remaining three months of the year that have not yet been accounted for.

The study from the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that while car accident fatalities overall have been in a steady decline for years, the death rate for less educated members of our society have gone up.

These «under - ride» crashes lead to many commercial truck accident fatalities.

One company has recently completed a study that looks at car accident fatalities.

Road accident fatality statistics show that there is a drastic increase in risk of death or serious injury resulting from motorcycle accidents.

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.

Other common tractor accident fatalities are caused by:

Newsday reported an upswing in boating accident fatalities in 2016, where 22 people died in New York boating accidents (six more than in 2015).

According to the Driving Institute of America, an astounding 40 percent of all car accident fatalities throughout the country each year involve motorists failing to yield right - of - way at an intersection, running a red light or driving through a stop sign.

While head - on collisions count for only about two percent of all accidents, they often cause as much as ten percent of all car accident fatalities.

Bicycle deaths were only a small fraction of the 35,092 traffic accident fatalities on U.S. roadways in 2015.

While only 2 % of all vehicle collisions are head - on, they result in 10 % of all auto accident fatalities.

Unfortunately, while they have greatly decreased auto accident fatality rates, these safety measures are not enough to prevent all injuries.

According to a 2005 report sent out by the National Highway Traffic Safety and Administration, there were over four thousand motorcycle accident fatalities that occurred throughout the nation.

According to research by the Kentucky Transportation Center of the University of Kentucky, motorcycle crashes accounted for only 1.6 percent of the state's traffic accidents in 2012; however, they were responsible for 6.2 percent of traffic accident injuries, and 13.4 percent of motor vehicle accident fatalities.

A motorcycle accident fatality may be grounds for a wrongful death lawsuit.

Injuries in head - on collisions are often serious and cause 10 percent of all car accident fatalities.

While drunk driving laws are strictly enforced and vigorously prosecuted, driving under the influence is a leading cause of auto accident fatalities.

One disturbing trend, per the Florida Department of Transportation has shown that while only 7 percent of registered vehicles in the state consisted of motorcycles in 2011, motorcycle riders accounted for 14.3 percent of all accident fatalities.