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The NHTSA said studies have shown that distracted driving now accounts for more fatal crashes than any other type of impaired driving, including driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Women are involved in more fatal crashes than they used to be because they're driving more.

Mr. M U Omeje, of the Lagos Sector Command of the corps, said the completed portions of the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway have witnessed more fatal crashes than those portions that have not been rehabilitated.

Not exact matches

For more than a year prior to a fatal crash in Arizona, Uber's self - driving cars failed more often, and more dramatically, than competitors» autonomous vehicles.

If autonomous cars are safer than human - driven ones, the reasoning goes, we'll save more lives by bringing the technology to market as quickly as we can, even if there are a few fatal crashes along the way.

Tesla shares dropped more than 8 percent after news broke of an investigation into a fatal Tesla crash.

And more recently, Tesla has been in the press after it revealed that its semi autonomous driving technology, Autopilot, was engaged during a fatal crash in May.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous Autopilot system was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self - driving technology on public roads.

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.

Tesla provided some more details on Friday about the fatal crash involving one of its Model X vehicles, but the National Transportation Safety Board isn't particularly happy about that, The Washington Post first reported.

The NHTSA categorizes speeding as an aggressive act and that speeding contributed to more than 44,000 fatal crashes in 2011 alone.

Repeat DWI offenders are far more likely to be involved in a fatal crash.

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.

«Assuming fewer than 10 per cent of Americans drive while high on April 20, our results suggest that drug use at 4/20 celebrations more than doubles the risk of a fatal crash,» said Redelmeier.

Additionally, fatal and injury crashes decreased by more than 70 percent, proving these cutting - edge designs are efficient, effective and life - saving.

Furthermore, drowsy or fatigued drivers are responsible for an estimated 56,000 crashes annually with more than 40,000 of them resulting in fatal and non-fatal injuries.

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.

«Until recently, there hasn't been any evidence on whether these [ignition interlock] laws prevent alcohol - involved fatal crashes, and specifically whether mandatory / all laws are more effective than permissive and partial laws,» McGinty said in a Hopkins news release.

After a fatal airplane crash kills everyone on board save one man, Tomas, Federico jumps onto the scene to court the young man and use him to amass more luck, and hopefully gain revenge on the one man with the power to take it away.

In 2012, the most recent year for which data are available, speeding was a factor in more than 35 percent of fatal work zone crashes.

Tesla faced intense scrutiny after news broke of a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S using Autopilot in May, with Consumer Reports pressuring the company to scale back Autopilot functions until they can be perfected, and more recently the German government urging Tesla to change the Autopilot name.

A main finding is that two systems, forward collision warning and lane departure warning, show more potential to avoid or mitigate crashes, including fatal ones.

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 luxury / sport ABS cars were involved in 20 percent more fatal multiple - vehicle crashes on dry roads than non-ABS cars and 65 percent more single - vehicle crashes on wet roads.

Two studies provide more evidence that antilock brakes reduce fatal crash risk and insurance losses.

Fatal single - vehicle rollover crashes are reduced even more — 70 percent for cars and 88 percent for the other vehicles.

The latest federal study of ESC shows that the technology reduces single - car fatal crashes by more than a third.

Equipping cars and SUVs with electronic stability control can reduce fatal single - vehicle crashes by more than half, a new Institute study shows.

According to commentary by Rare's Chris Seavor, there were some fatal bugs that the developer was unable to iron out, and the only solution to keep the game from crashing was to add more RAM.

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.

Tractor - trailer trucks are more likely to be involved in a fatal multi-vehicle crash than are passenger vehicles.

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).

In 2012, approximately 317,000 crashes involved large trucks, and more than 3,000 of those collisions were fatal, according to data compiled by U.S. Department of Transportation.

More than half of the fatal motorcycle crashes in 2011 occurred on non-interstate major roads such as boulevards and state highways.

However, drivers of other vehicles involved in the crash are more likely to suffer serious and fatal injuries.

Troubling Statistics: In 2013, large trucks in California were involved in more than 250 fatal collisions and more than 5,000 crashes resulting in injury.

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.

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- More than half (53 percent) of fatal motorcycle crashes occur in urban areas — 9 in 10 fatal motorcycle crashes occur within 10 miles of an urban area.

More fatal motorcycle crashes in Maine so far this year than in all of 2016, Sept. 29, 2017, By Nok - Noi Ricker, Bangor Daily News

An unhelmeted motorcyclist is 40 percent more likely to suffer a fatal head injury in a motorcycle crash than one wearing a helmet, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

According to the National High Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 77 percent of fatal crashes are due to driver error and more than 60 percent of drivers consider other drivers a major personal threat to themselves and their family.

In fact, teenage drivers ages 16 to 19 are about three times more likely than drivers ages 20 and older to be in fatal car crashes, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If an area experiences many fatal car crashes, rates are more likely to go up in that area since these types of accidents tend to be highly costly for the auto insurance companies.

And it's not just the number of accidents that's higher, it's also the severity: drivers under the age of 25 are involved in more than a quarter of all fatal crashes, despite accounting for just over 12 % of the driving population.

More than 5,000 teens are killed in car accidents every year, making fatal auto - related crashes the number one cause of teen deaths, according to organizers of National Teen Driver Safety Week.

Teen drivers between ages 16 and 19 are three times more likely than drivers 20 + years old to be in a fatal vehicular crash

According to results of a study recently released by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), teen drivers between the ages of 15 and 17 have fatal crashes with teen - age passengers about eight times more frequently than young adults between 18 and 24 years old with teens in the car.

The most recent study looked at teenage drivers» tendency for potentially risky behavior with passengers present as compared to driving alone and piggy backed on another report from May 2012 by the AAA Foundation covering how the probability for a fatal crash increased with 16 and 17 year old drivers carrying one or more passengers.

More specifically, the FSA reports that Florida recorded the highest rate of crashes (both fatal and non-fatal) and the second highest rate of alcohol - related crashes involving teenage drivers between 15 and 19 years of age.