Sentences with phrase «of motor vehicle crash fatalities»

«We already know that alcohol plays a tragic role in the number of motor vehicle crash fatalities each year.

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The number of alcohol - related fatalities in police - reported motor vehicle crashes has dropped steadily from 750 in 1984 to 292 in 2014, according to the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, according to a Cuomo release.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Tuesday that the number of alcohol - related fatalities in police - reported motor vehicle crashes for the state of New York has dropped steadily from 750 in 1984 to 292 in 2014.

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.

It was based on two national data sets used frequently in analyses of motor vehicle crashes: the Fatality Analysis Reporting System; and the National Automotive Sampling System's General Estimates System data sets (2006 - 2010).

The number of motor vehicle fatalities involving children under age 15 varies widely by state, but occurrences are more common in the South, and are most often associated with improperly or unused restraints and crashes on rural roads, a new review of child - related auto fatalities shows.

«While we've seen a decrease over the years in motor vehicle fatalities involving people under the influence, the nature of those crashes is changing,» said study author Fernando Wilson, PhD, associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Approximately one third of motor vehicle fatalities are alcohol - involved, and crashes involving alcohol are associated with more serious injuries and more fatalities than those that don't involve drinking.

In Philadelphia, a total of 31 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes during 2012, representing 29 percent of the city's total traffic fatalities..

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.

Finally, some good news, bad news: Cars are now so safe, already, that for the past decade deaths from motor vehicle crashes per year have dipped below the number of suicides: 32,675 based on the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), versus an estimated 41,000 suicides last year.

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.

Because studies have confirmed that teen drivers are «over-represented» in the statistics for injuries in car accidents as well as fatalities in crashes, there are continuing efforts to try and combat the danger of teenage drivers getting involved in an accident while driving a motor vehicle.

Commercial trucking crashes are some of the most life - threatening motor vehicle accidents, with over 275 reported fatalities in Idaho nearly every year.

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

A US fatal motor vehicle study found that 16 % of total crash fatalities were weather - related.

There were over 100 fatalities per day in 2016, and motor vehicle crashes were reported as the # 1 cause of death for ages 16 through 23 in the year 2015.

According to research by the Kentucky Transportation Center of the University of Kentucky, motorcycle crashes accounted for only 1.6 percent of the state's traffic accidents in 2012; however, they were responsible for 6.2 percent of traffic accident injuries, and 13.4 percent of motor vehicle accident fatalities.

The Impaired Driver Program (IDP)(previously known as Drinking Driving Program (DDP)-RRB- is part of New York State's effort to lessen the incidence of injury, disability, and fatality that results from alcohol and other drug related motor vehicle crashes, thereby reducing the risk of re-offense for an impaired driving offense.

Unfortunately, this is too often not the case, as motor vehicle crashes continue to be the # 1 cause of injuries and fatalities in teenagers.

Further, we know that this devastating epidemic of serious teen injuries and fatalities due to motor vehicle crashes can be avoided — with one thing — experience!