Sentences with phrase «number of fatalities»

However, the total number of fatalities from auto pedestrian accidents rose by 12 %.

Historically, yellow fever produced the highest number of fatalities, but advances in public health and environmental management have eliminated the most devastating diseases and improved water quality.

Not surprisingly, pedestrian accidents account for a large number of fatalities involving automobiles.

Perhaps most concerning, the current number of fatalities is double the rate during the 1990s.

The ten year average number of fatalities is 15.

That's a shocking number of fatalities occurring because of accidents.

Analysis also indicates that not only are large cities home to the majority of pedestrian deaths, but also the lowest income neighborhoods within large cities have disproportionate number of fatalities.

This is a higher number of fatalities than average, which indicates a disturbing trend.

Because this was a much larger number of fatalities than usual, and due to the blue whale's endangered status, this greatly concerned scientists.

Though the 2012 statistics show that there's been a slight increase since 2011, the total number of fatalities is still a significant improvement over the 2005 numbers.

That is the highest number of fatalities at a school shooting since the February 14 massacre at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida killed 17 people.

The fatality rate actually dropped about 4 % in 2009, with the total number of fatalities caused by traffic accidents dropping from 836 to 803.

Between 2011 and 2015 the average number of pedestrian fatalities was 365, of which just three involved a bicycle, and last year the total number of fatalities increased again to 448.

[10] The first company to offer accident insurance was the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, formed in 1848 in England to insure against the rising number of fatalities on the nascent railway system.

California had the second - highest number of fatalities during the year at 128 with only Florida having more with 139.

What are the actual numbers of fatalities in Sweden per capita of children rear facing?

Madagascar had 60 deaths from the plague last year, which is the world's highest recorded number of fatalities as a result of the disease.

Given that laughing gas is Britain's fourth most popular drug, with nearly half a million users, that is a tiny number of fatalities.

Nearly 500 people died from opioid overdoses in Nassau and Suffolk counties last year — the highest number of fatalities ever recorded.

WAMC and the Albany Times Union take a look at the unusual number of fatalities along Central Avenue in Albany.

They transmit from human to human too inefficiently to spread very widely; 100 percent of a small number of victims is still a small number of fatalities.

The current number of fatalities connected with this defect is still 13, according to GM.

The reason for the huge number of fatalities can be pinpointed to a poll that was conducted by Mason Dixon Polling & Research.

A substantial number of fatalities occurred in businesses.

This product liability lawsuit filed this week in San Bernardino Superior Court highlights a growing number of fatalities that involve Jeeps suspected of having defective fuel systems that when damaged, lead to fuel - fed fires.

As the deer populations grow and urban habitats continue to encroach upon rural environments, there has been an increase in deer - car collisions — over half a million a year, with a significant number of fatalities.

The fatality rate really fell about 4 % in 2009, with the absolute number of fatalities brought on by traffic accidents falling from 836 to 803.

Their research found that Texas had the largest number of fatalities from flash floods and river floods over the study period.

[25][26] The first company to offer accident insurance was the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, formed in 1848 in England to insure against the rising number of fatalities on the nascent railway system.

Some have argued that the above figure should have a downward trend because of improvements in weather forecasting whereas we interpret the experience of the 2009 Victorian fires in which 173 people lost their lives as suggesting that even with near perfect forecasts there is always the possibility of large numbers of fatalities.

Construction equipment operators were among the categories of workers with the highest number of fatalities during that same year, according to OSHA.

As we've reported here at Vox, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher, a development that has prompted lawmakers to ask for an audit.

Yet if Sweden's example of what it has done - looked at and built infrastructure with a «safety first» mindset - is what has contributed to the lowered number of fatalities, the rest of the world has a long way to go.

When standardized for population, South Dakota, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Montana had the highest numbers of fatalities from flooding per 100,000 people.

That follows a rise of 7.2 % in the number of fatalities from 2014 to 2015, which according to NHTSA was itself the largest percentage jump since 1966.

UPDATE, 1:31 p.m. PST: Senator Bill Nelson of Florida informed MSNBC that «there were a number of fatalities,» at the high school.

A large number of these fatalities are due to texting and driving.

Despite this the number of fatalities fell from 55 to 49, including high - profile cases such as the murder of 11 - year - old Rhys Jones in Liverpool.

«Although the number of fatalities and accidents at highway - railroad grade crossings have fallen steadily on a national level, over the past several years collisions have increased across New York State,» said Carlucci, a Rockland lawmaker and member of the independent Democratic Conference.

«The only thing Mayor de Blasio had done was pre-K and Vision Zero,» Malcolm said, referring to free early education opportunities for four - year - olds and the city's plan to cut the number of fatalities from traffic crashes with pedestrians.

Health Ministry official Khaled al - Khatib put the number of fatalities at 51 and said 435 others were wounded when Egyptian security forces clashed with supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood outside the headquarters.

A DfT spokesman said: «Britain has some of the safest roads in the world and the number of fatalities has fallen by 44 % over the last 10 years, but we are determined to do more.

Shortly before 8 am, London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton confirmed that there have been a «number of fatalities» in the «unprecedented incident».

The number of fatalities at construction and industrial sites is decreasing overall, reports the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), but 42 workers in New York fell to their death in 2012, 10 more than the year before.

«From 2005 to 2011 [there was] a 143 % increase in the number of fatalities and injuries from distracted drivers,» Cuomo says.