Sentences with phrase «occupant crash deaths»

The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (IIHS) says that in 2009 fully one - quarter of all occupant crash deaths were from side impact crashes.

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In the event of a crash, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death

Among rear seat occupants 5 and older, lap and shoulder belts reduce the risk of death in a crash by 44 - 73 percent compared with no restraint.

In two - vehicle side impact crashes, 38 percent of car occupant deaths occur when a pickup or sport utility vehicle strikes the car.

Thirty - eight percent of single - vehicle side impact crash deaths occur when vehicles strike trees or poles on the dead occupants» side of the vehicle.

Almost 10,000 occupant deaths occur each year in side impact crashes, and head injuries cause more than half of these deaths.

Concern: In the event of a motor vehicle crash, necessitating deployment of the passenger's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the passenger seat occupant or other occupants possibly causing serious injury or death.

Vehicles roll in just 2 percent of crashes, but these crashes account for more than a third of passenger vehicle occupant deaths.

Concern: In the event of a motor vehicle crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.

Many fatal crashes involving child occupants are so severe that better child restraints wouldn't have prevented the deaths.

Side airbags that deploy in rollover crashes reduce deaths of front seat occupants by 41 percent in rollovers, a NHTSA study shows.

Concern: In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.

Therefore, truck accidents often result in permanent, debilitating injuries and death to occupants of other vehicles involved in the crash.

In fatal crashes involving a passenger vehicle and a large truck, 98 percent of the deaths were occupants of the passenger vehicles.

However, statistical data on two vehicle crashes that involved a collision of a large truck with a passenger automobile indicates that the occupants inside the passenger vehicle were at greater risk of dying, and accounted for 97 percent of all deaths.

According to experts, defective seatbacks in some cars can break or collapse in major accidents, particularly rear - end crashes, causing paralysis or death to the occupants.

These deaths occurred in 32,166 separate police - reported crashes, and most of the deaths were occupants of passenger vehicles.

When a 40 - ton semi-truck crashes into a passenger car, the injuries to the occupants of the passenger car nearly always result in catastrophic injuries or death.