Sentences with phrase «of fatal crashes»

Roughly 40 percent of the fatal crashes are alcohol - related.

This new study found they were associated with a 7 percent decrease in the rate of fatal crashes involving at least one drunk driver.

Young adults are most at risk for being involved in an alcohol - related accident, with drivers aged 21 to 24 accounting for 33 % of all fatal crashes in 2013.

Although the exact cause of the fatal crash is still under investigation, authorities reportedly do not believe alcohol played a role in the accident.

With the total number of fatal crashes rising and the number of older drivers increased by 50 percent, there is a real cause for concern.

Nearly one - third of all fatal crashes occur as a result of driving under the influence and many of those include people who have consumed alcohol.

Most of the fatal crashes involving large trucks occurred in rural areas (65 %), during the daytime (66 %), and on weekdays (79 %).

Side impacts are the second most common type of fatal crash.

The majority of fatal crashes involving tractor - trailer trucks include trucks that are pulling one trailer.

Nearly four percent of fatal crashes and hundreds of crashes resulting in injury involve sleepy drivers or drivers that have fallen asleep behind the wheel.

The exact cause of the fatal crash is still under investigation.

In 2008, 59 % of fatal crashes involved just one vehicle.

The release quotes a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration which found that 40 percent of fatal crashes on Super Bowl Sunday involved drunk driving.

A man from Ithaca was identified as the victim of a fatal crash Friday night in Dryden.

WASHINGTON, April 12 - Tesla Inc lashed out at the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday after the agency took the unusual step of removing the automaker as a party to its investigation of a fatal crash in March in which a Tesla vehicle's «Autopilot» system was in use.

Elon Musk has no plans to disable Tesla's Autopilot function in the wake of a fatal crash of a Model S electric car.

The ongoing changes at the 2.4 - mile path are a result of a fatal crash that sparked a public outcry and community discussion on safety at the park area.

The research team, which also included Melvin D. Livingston, Ph.D., an assistant research scientist, and Stephanie S. Staras, Ph.D., an assistant professor, both of the UF department of health outcomes and policy, used detailed records of fatal crashes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from January 2001 to December 2011.

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.

«Part of the disconnect... has to do with the fact that crashes in which vehicles drift off the road aren't common, even though they account for a large proportion of fatal crashes,» the IIHS said.

Game description: A deserted island... a lost man... memories of a fatal crash... a book written by a dying explorer.

Considering the amount of Fatal Crashes in Delaware every year, this knowledge is priceless.

In light of Tesla going a bit rogue and disclosing details of the fatal crash that involved Autopilot, the National Transportation Safety Board is removing Tesla as a party in the investigation.

Accidents involving semi trucks can happen anytime and anywhere, even on rural roads, where 64 percent of the fatal crashes occur, truck accident statistics show.

It is estimated that 40 % of all fatal crashes between a motorist and bicyclist involve collisions from behind.

The firm, which was committed for sentence at Warwick Crown Court, admitted a charge of failing to ensure the safety of employees between April 2015 and the day of the fatal crash six months later.

Blowing dust and brownout conditions on January 19, 2009, created a chain reaction of fatal crashes on I - 70 in eastern Colorado.

Jones and Nicolas Ziebarth of Cornell University used a national database of fatal crashes from 1975 to 2011 to examine «before» and «after» restraint use and fatalities.

The route of the fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X last month, in which the vehicle struck a highway crash attenuator head - on while the Autopilot semi-autonomous driver assist system was engaged,...

Front and side impacts are the most common kinds of fatal crashes, killing about three - quarters of the 28,896 passenger vehicle occupants who died in 2007.

According to Boeing, 20 % of fatal crashes take place during the takeoff or the initial climb into the air.

According to the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety (ADPS), Coleman was texting behind the wheel at the time of the fatal crash.

A Fox News analysis of fatal crashes over a five - year period showed that the 15 Freeway is one of the top 10 most dangerous roads.

Some safety experts have questioned whether the change has led to more motor vehicle deaths since many of the fatal crashes in Illinois occur on rural roads.

Illinois also has a disproportionate amount of fatal crashes due to speeding compared to the national average.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers, and about one - fourth of these fatal crashes are the result of an underage alcohol - impaired driver.

According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), motorcycles have a 16 times the risk of injury and 35 times the risk of a fatal crash compared with a passenger car.

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.

Causes of Fatal Crashes Attributable to Aggressive Driving: # 2 Speeding # 4 Failing to yield the right - of - way # 6 Reckless driving, including common dangerous habits # 7 Failing to obey traffic signs and signals Still certain you are not an aggressive driver?

According to the Insurance Information Institute (III), young people between the ages of 15 to 20 have the highest rate of fatal crashes relative to other age groups — including the elderly.

Nearly 50 % of all fatal crashes for drivers» ages 16 to 17 years - old were caused by speeding compared to 33 % for drivers in all other age groups.

Each sign will be blue with white lettering stating «Please Don't Drink and Drive» or «In Memory Of» along with the victim's name and date of the fatal crash.

More than half of fatal crashes in the United States occur on rural roads.

Video released this week of a fatal crash involving an Uber - owned self - driving car showed the vehicle's safety operator was distracted in the moments prior to the crash.

In the aftermath of the fatal crash involving an self - driving Uber vehicle and pedestrian 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg in Arizona last week, the company has come under extra scrutiny about its self - driving technology and how it's deployed.

Police in Tempe, Arizona, have released video of a fatal crash involving an Uber - owned self - driving car that fatally struck a woman on Sunday.