Sentences with phrase «number of fatalities increased»

Not exact matches

For the second year in a row, the number of people killed in traffic fatalities increased substantially from January through June.

That's an average of 21.7 incidents and 12.7 fatalities a year, although those numbers were increasing over that period.

«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.

He also convinced Albany to allow him to lower the city's speed limit to 25 miles per hour and increase the number of speed cameras, both key parts of his «Vision Zero» initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities.

At noon, acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is joined by Steve McInnis, president of the New York City Council of Carpenters, to draw attention to the increasing number of worker fatalities, Cadman Plaza Park, Cadman Plaza West and Middagh Street, Brooklyn.

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

And with blazing heat becoming the new norm, the number of deadly heat waves, and therefore fatalities, are expected to increase as the climate warms.

A few sobering stats: The number of bicyclists killed in motor vehicle accidents increased by 16 % between 2010 and 2012, per the most recent Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) report on bicyclist fatalities.

The number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on U.S. roads in 2016 increased by 2.2 percent, and resulted in a fatality rate of 1.18 deaths per 100 VMT - a 2.6 percent increase from the previous year.

We recently received a letter from Health Canada that we can no longer offer FleaHex in Canada for the same reason, despite the increasing numbers of fatalities and side - effects caused by conventional flea and tick products.

United Kingdom (Ban on four types of dogs since 1997)-- Dog bites increased by 50 % between 1997 and 2007, and a number of fatalities involved non-banned breeds.

Scott Calvert reports in the Wall Street Journal that the number of hit - and - run fatalities has increased 61 percent in the US since 2009.

Perhaps in the light of the increasing numbers of pedestrians and cyclists in the roads, the increasing number of fatalities, and the newfound popularity of trucks as weapons, it is time to reconsider our urban road designs and make protected bike lanes the new normal on busy streets.

While the number of drivers has increased, the rates of fatalities and nonfatal accident - related injuries have actually gone down.

In fact, the number of crashes, injuries and fatalities has increased across the country in recent years, and Pasco County has followed this same trend.

It was determined that the number of fatalities rose 8 percent per 5 mph increase on interstates and freeways.

The number of traffic fatalities and cases involving debilitating injuries involving trucks, continues to increase each year.

Ciaran continues: «The number of brutal fatalities and incidence of serious injuries sustained through negligence and failures in health and safety practices is definitely on the increase generally.

It's the end of a trend Massachusetts drivers and pedestrians would probably like to have seen continue, but after 7 years of declines, the number of traffic fatalities in the U.S. increased in 2012.

In fact, Illinois car accident statistics show that the number of motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities has been steadily increasing since 2014.

The significant increase in traffic fatalities in 2016 has been attributed to higher speed limits on rural interstates, an increased number of teen drivers on the road, and the prevalence of distracted driving.

Compared to the same nine months of the previous year, 2011, this projected number reflects an increase of 7.1 %, up from the 23,884 fatality crashes to occur only a year before.

The number of fatalities listed here represents a 9 % increase when compared to 2010 bicyclist and cyclist fatality data.

In addition, statistics recently released by the NHTSA revealed that the number of fatalities caused by drunk drivers in the United States increased in 2012.

In 2015, Canadian motor vehicle related serious injuries declined; however, there was a slight increase in the number of fatalities and total injuries.

But, while the number of other types of fatal accident has declined in recent years, the increasing popularity of cycling has held fatality numbers constant at between 700 and 800 per year.

Also during that year, motorcycle fatalities broke their continuous 11 - year - increase with a decline in the number of fatalities in that year, and continued to decline in 2010 as well.

Since the oil boom in New Mexico and Texas, there has been an increasing number of trucking accidents and a higher percentage of fatalities.

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.

The new numbers represent the first time there has been an increase in the number of automobile related fatalities in the past six... Read more»

Sadly, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks workplace fatalities, recorded an increasing number of deaths from 2011 through 2014.

Although the state saw a slight increase in 2013 with 65 fatalities, the number of victims was reduced to 51 in 2014.»

The new numbers represent the first time there has been an increase in the number of automobile related fatalities in the past six years.

The Governors» Highway Safety Association estimates that the number of pedestrians killed in 2015 increased by around 10 percent as compared with 2014, which is the largest annual increase in pedestrian fatalities since the federal government began collecting accident data forty years ago.

Advances in safety technology, urban living trends, increased carpooling, tougher laws on careless driving in some jurisdictions, the advent of self - driving cars — all these things were supposed to drive down the number of collisions and fatalities.

Both of these numbers increased over 2008, which saw 16,387 crashes and 104 total fatalities.

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 bad news is that, while overall US traffic fatalities have been decreasing over the last decade, the number of US motorcycle deaths have been increasing.

To a large extent, this has led to an increase in the number of fatalities on rural roads.

Almost 50 of those deaths ocurred between the years 2008 and 2011, showing a sharp increase in the number of ATV - related fatalities in recent years.