Sentences with phrase «of highway fatalities»

Only 20 % of highway fatalities involve construction personnel.

While motorcycles represent just 2 % of all registered vehicles in the United States, motorcycle accidents account for 5 % of all highway fatalities each year.

Only three percent of the vehicles registered in the United States are motorcycles, but about 15 percent of all highway fatalities are motorcyclists and their passengers.

Buried deep in the State of the State book are proposals aimed at changing roadway behavior in an effort to cut down on the number of highway fatalities.

Not exact matches

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, some of the smallest cars on the road have the highest driver fatality rates.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, since inception of this law, vehicular fatalities for children have been reduced by 30 %.

«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.

Additional Suffolk County police patrol officers will be joined by members of the Selected Alcohol Fatality Enforcement Team and Highway Patrol Bureau, Mr. Bellone said Friday.

Ebong, tolls were removed from Connecticut's highways more than 30 years ago after a series of ghastly accidents resulting in multiple fatalities.

With data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System covering 1994 to 2011, the researchers analyzed fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado and in the 34 states that did not have medical marijuana laws, comparing changes over time in the proportion of drivers who were marijuana - positive and alcohol - impaired.

Among other factors, areas with lots of highways — and the accompanying traffic fatalities that make healthy organs available for transplant — will generally have a shorter wait time.

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.

An NSF report on a study by Knipling and Wang (Office of Motor Carrier Research and Standards Federal Highway Administration) showed that car accidents related to sleep deprivation resulted in more than 1,500 fatalities and 71,000 injuries per year.

As of monday morning, the ohio state highway patrol is reporting 6 fatalities on ohio roads.

Philadelphia's initiative is supported by a $ 525,000 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) grant initiative to help address a three year trend of increased pedestrian fatalities.

Volvo, a clear leader in autonomous technology with a goal of zero fatalities in its cars by the next decade, is testing next year with just 100 XC90s in a very controlled environment on 50 kilometers of highway in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Formerly a part of the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's primary mission is to prevent commercial motor vehicle - related fatalities and injuries.

According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) research, distraction - related fatalities represented 16 percent of overall traffic fatalities in 2009

NHTSA ensures the safety of motor vehicles and highways through highway safety grants to States and through guidance and regulations on States, including the requirement for States to have a performance - based highway safety program designed to reduce traffic crashes, which must include performance measures and targets related to non-motorized fatalities.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is urging Americans to protect themselves this busy holiday travel season due to an increase in highway fatalities and injuries this time of thHighway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is urging Americans to protect themselves this busy holiday travel season due to an increase in highway fatalities and injuries this time of thhighway fatalities and injuries this time of the year.

Evaluating other data sources (Fatality Analysis Reporting System, Highway Safety Information System, and Strategic Highway Research Program Safety Database) that may provide insights on the performance of the ET - Plus in the field.

We have made great progress in improving the safety of our transit systems, pipelines, and highways, and in reducing roadway fatalities to historic lows.

It's always been a factor in the outsize teen road - fatality rate, but with the explosion in cell phones and iPods — talking, texting, tuning, and a plethora of distractions I could hardly imagine back when a friend gave me my first lesson in the subject by torching the rear seat of her Ford Maverick when the lit end of her cigarette blew off on the highway — things have gotten progressively worse.

According to research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), distracted driving - related fatalities jumped from 10 to 16 percent of all traffic fatalities between 2005 and 2008.

Take a look at 2006: the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released a study that said the risk of fatalities from rollover accidents could be reduced by 80 percent in SUVs if electronic stability control was a mandatory piece of equipment.

A just - released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) statistical projection of traffic fatalities for 2015 estimates that 35,200 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes — an increase of about 7.7 % as compared to the 32,675 fatalities reported in 2014.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that far side impact crashes account for 11 percent of fatalities among belted front passengers in non rollover incidents between 2004 and 2009.

Sync and other similar devices are drawing more scrutiny from U.S. regulators who are studying the impact of driver distraction on highway fatalities and injuries.

HCC - 30 provides all legal services related to the highway safety program with the goal of reducing roadway - related fatalities and injuries.

That's right, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), most of these fatalities aren't to the children on the buses, but rather to occupants of other vehicles involved in the crashes (72 percent) or to other non-occupants of the buses, such as those who are walking and biking to school (20 percent).

Based on 2013 crash statistics, an average of 131 injuries and 1.6 fatalities occur in highway work zones every day.

The combination of side and curtain airbags, which help protect the head and body during side impacts, can reduce fatalities by more than 52 percent, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

Analyzing over 710,000 accident records covering 20 years from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the Auto Insurance Center created a series of maps and graphics depicting the deadliest counties and states in the U.S. for drivers.

Summary of Wind Turbine Incidents (December 2008): • 41 Worker Fatalities, 16 Public - Includes falling from turbine towers and transporting turbines on the highway.

It should also be noted that even the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), in its report, suggests that there might be a correlation between traffic deaths and cellphone use, saying «a more recent factor contributing to the increase in pedestrian fatalities may be the growing use of smart phones by all road users, which can be a significant source of distraction for both drivers and pedestrians.»

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration states that they account for 37 percent of all bus fatalities annually.

According to The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2010 pedestrian fatalities accounted for over 13 % of all fatalities caused by cars.

In 2012 alone, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported over 400 alcohol - related fatalities on North Carolina roads and highways, representing 31.1 percent of all traffic fatalities.

Most of the accidents that occur on this highway do not result in catastrophic injuries or fatalities, but when traffic is moving at 70 mph, any collision could easily turn tragic.

According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, one out of every nine traffic fatalities in 2008 resulted from a collision involving a large truck (gross weight greater than 10,000 pounds).

Truck driver fatigue is a major problem in New Mexico and throughout the United States, and it is one of the leading causes of accidents and fatalities on American highways.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that more than 4,000 pedestrians are killed in U.S. traffic accidents every year, accounting for nearly 11 percent of all motor vehicle fatalities.

Auto accidents are a major cause of death in the United States, with more than 30,000 fatalities occurring each year, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

According to the California Highway Patrol's 2010 Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS), 15 fatalities and 1,011 injuries were reported as a result of car accidents in the city of San Bernardino.

64,000 of these traffic accidents resulted in at least one injury, and tragically, there were 288 reported highway fatalities.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, nearly one - fourth of all passenger vehicle fatalities resulting from multi-vehicle crashes nationwide involve a large truck.

According to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, roughly 25,000 fatalities happen each year due to lane departure crashes, or situations in which one vehicle veers out of its lane in a highway or another multiple - lanHighway and Transportation Officials, roughly 25,000 fatalities happen each year due to lane departure crashes, or situations in which one vehicle veers out of its lane in a highway or another multiple - lanhighway or another multiple - lane road.

Maine is one region where the fatality counts from traffic accidents rose substantially from 2009 to 2010 despite the decrease in percentage for the rest of the country, according to the preliminary report by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Indiana car accidents that occur in construction zones have caused dozens of fatalities in the last few years, and the Indiana governor's office released a statement reminding drivers of the increased danger: «This tragedy reminds us that we must slow down and pay close attention to highway work zones.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that high - speed collisions are the greatest contributing factor to one third of all traffic fatalities.