The group looked at the total
number of crashes per week as well as rates of alcohol - involved crashes that occurred from January 1, 2013 up to February 23, 2016 in Reno, Nev., until October 6, 2015 in Portland, Ore., until June 30, 2016 in San Antonio, and until February 23, 2016 in Las Vegas.
Not exact matches
San Francisco offers many libraries, high rates
of philanthropy, a large
number of five - star nursing homes, few car
crashes per capita, walkable communities, and mild weather.
One participant gave an analogy
of judging road - safety regulatory bodies solely on the
number of crashes, saying their response would be to «[make] all roads five miles
per hour.»
Mr Fry, who used to have the largest
number of Twitter followers before he was overtaken by Sarah Brown, retweeted the letter yesterday, causing 1,000 visitors
per minute to LabourList, which reprinted the letter, and
crashing the site.
According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, in 1990 — the last year for which reliable figures are available — AIDS was responsible for 17
per cent
of all deaths in men aged between 25 and 44, compared with 11.5
per cent in 1988, when it ranked as the
number three killer after heart disease and «unintentional deaths», from accidents such as car
crashes for example.
Intriguingly, the
number of fractures
per day increased about a week before the stock market
crash of September 2008, and the May 2010 Flash
Crash.
The research team looked at the
number of injuries, severity
of injury, type
of hospital interventions, patient deaths and costs -
per - patient in children with gunshot injuries compared with children whose injuries resulted from other mechanisms, including stabbing, being hit by a motor vehicle, struck by blunt object, falls, motor vehicle
crashes and others.
However, the
crash rates
per number of miles walked are similar in all urban areas, but still twice the
crash rate
of rural areas.
We've computed the
number of drivers killed in
crashes per million registered vehicle years for more than 150 models.
Finally, some good news, bad news: Cars are now so safe, already, that for the past decade deaths from motor vehicle
crashes per year have dipped below the
number of suicides: 32,675 based on the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), versus an estimated 41,000 suicides last year.
The total
number of all car
crashes in BC from 2012 - 2016 is also surprising, averaging 290,000
per year.
So given that there's the same or similar
number of people claiming for an injury each year (albeit the
number who are doing it online, indeed more and more from mobile devices, is still increasing), and given that competitors in the PI space online have continually increasing investment to meet competing higher media prices (eg Google Adwords is becoming more expensive for personal injury keywords — in the States some keywords eg «car
crash attorney» ones are over $ 500
per click without any guarantee
of making that a converted enquiry), and given more entrants into the market each year, pressures for many PI firms at the moment are understandably intense.
For stats junkies, the 2009
numbers represented a rate
of 2,297
crashes and 18 fatalities
per 100,000 citizens — this compares poorly to the national averages
of 1,793
crashes and 11 fatalities.
The study is based on fatal
crash statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which looked at the
number of deaths
per 100 million vehicle miles or caused by DUI, speeding, careless driving, or other causes.