Sentences with phrase «of pedestrian deaths»

Did you know that the elderly, adults over the age of 65, accounted for 19 % of all pedestrian deaths and 13 % of all pedestrians that were injured in 2015?

In addition, seniors 65 and over made up 19 % of all pedestrian deaths in 2013.

This number represents the highest number of pedestrian deaths in recent years.

In 2013, the number of pedestrian deaths rose to 4,735.

Florida happens to be the deadliest state for pedestrians, accounting for 11.1 percent of pedestrian deaths nationwide.

They frequently can not be seen by drivers, and are unfortunately nearly half of pedestrian deaths.

According to a city report, bad driver choices are responsible for or contribute to 70 percent of pedestrian deaths.

The more recent GHSA report also noted that 74 percent of pedestrian deaths occur in the dark, which suggests visibility, road design, and driver focus would have played a bigger role than pedestrian distraction.

The new grants are part of the Department's Everyone Is a Pedestrian campaign to help communities combat the rising number of pedestrian deaths and injuries that have occurred from 2009 through 2012.

Analysis also indicates that not only are large cities home to the majority of pedestrian deaths, but also the lowest income neighborhoods within large cities have disproportionate number of fatalities.

The city also will spend more money on a series of steps, from speed cameras to speed bumps, aimed at reducing the number of pedestrian deaths.

The number of pedestrian deaths in the city in 2017 was the lowest on record.

Except there is not much evidence of this, and even Kelly Sanders notes that New York City, where everybody is looking at their phones, has a much lower rate of pedestrian death because there are so many people in the streets and the cars travel more slowly.

Not exact matches

Is Uber responsible for the death of an Arizona pedestrian who walked in front of one of its self - driving cars?

Florida officials said the death toll in the collapse of a pedestrian bridge has climbed to six.

Full details are still forthcoming surrounding the death on Sunday night of pedestrian Elaine Herzberg after she was struck by Uber's test vehicle, a Volvo SC 90 sport utility vehicle, operating in autonomous mode..

Autopilot prevents serious injury or death of a pedestrian in NY (owner anecdote confirmed by vehicle logs) pic.twitter.com / NceuqckqCK

Midland Red (South) Ltd pleaded guilty to two charges brought under Health and Safety law after an inquiry into the 2015 deaths of a Catholic schoolboy who was a passenger, and a pedestrian in Coventry city centre.

Managing director of Midland Red bus operator, Steve Burd, as he leaves Coventry Magistrates» Court last week after a previous hearing, where Midland Red (South) Ltd, today pleaded guilty to two charges brought under Health and Safety law after an inquiry into the 2015 deaths of a passenger and a pedestrian in Coventry city centre.

Instead of losing Alexis for nothing, they gain another attacking player out from the death trap that is Jose Mourinho (see: Kevin de Bruyne, Mohamed Salah, Romelu Lukaku, Anthony Martial, Memphis Depay, and the pedestrian season Eden Hazard threw up during Mourinho's last half - season at Chelsea his second time around that club) for fucking free!

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.

Kings County Politics article on Borough President Adams applauding the success of Vision Zero's impact on a substantial decrease in pedestrian deaths across New York City.

Residents have demanded more police enforcement and attention paid to drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians after last year's string of deaths in the West 90s.

After two years of major declines in New York City's traffic deaths, the number of people killed in crashes dropped slightly last year while pedestrian deaths rose, leading to questions about whether Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious campaign to eliminate traffic fatalities has stalled.

Queens Boulevard, once known as the «Boulevard of Death» in NYC tabloids, has not seen a pedestrian fatality in three years, and has become a centerpiece of the mayor's Vision Zero traffic safety campaign.

The bill would allow for charges to be imposed on a driver involved in an accident where a pedestrian, cyclist or other road user suffers injury or death as a result of unsafe driving.

'' Failure to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks is the leading cause of injury and death in New York City traffic, and that's why the City's Right of Way Law is an essential part of Vision Zero,» said Paul Steely White, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives.

I think we should give justice to the small number of pedestrians killed each year by dangerous cycling by applying the same or similar penalties to that of causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Amherst Town Supervisor Brian Kulpa and Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Joseph Emminger are addressing the dangerous stretch of Niagara Falls Boulevard between the City of Buffalo and Niagara County lines after another pedestrian death over the weekend.

«The mayor's successful effort to reduce pedestrian deaths through Vision Zero, for example, is reflected in enhanced enforcement of speed and bus lane cameras,» he said.

HANOVER - No charges have been filed in a car - pedestrian accident in the north county that resulted in the death of the pedestrian.

However, experts and advocates say that the overwhelming cause of pedestrian injuries and deaths are car crashes.

County lawmakers Rob Trotta, Leslie Kennedy and Tom Muratore, along with four GOP legislative candidates, held a news conference at the busy intersection of Route 25A and Miller Place Road in Miller Place where one pedestrian and one bicycle death have occurred.

The ceremony followed Mayor Bill de Blasio's announcement of his Vision Zero plan to eliminate pedestrian traffic deaths.

Though Rosenthal has wanted to introduce the legislation for some time, the recent death of Jill Tarlov, the pedestrian who was fatally hit by a cyclist along West Drive in the park, highlighted the need for change, she said.

«Over a third of the road traffic deaths in low - and middle - income countries are among pedestrians.

Pedestrian injuries are among the leading causes of pediatric deaths in the U.S..

While there is less street racing merely for the pleasure of putting pedestrians and property at risk of death or destruction, the film still includes a plethora of car chases, explosive crashes, bullets and bikinis — and that's just in the opening credits.

Starring a startlingly pre-True Blood Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men), the film explores the moral dilemma of a teenage girl named Margaret who is complicit in the death of a pedestrian when a bus runs a red light.

Deaths of African Americans and Hispanics as pedestrians are disproportionately high: although African Americans represent only 12.7 percent of the total U.S. population, they compose 17.3 percent of total pedestrian fatalities, while Hispanics are 15.1 percent of the population but 18.6 percent of pedestrian fatalities.

Vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, still account for almost half of Europe's road fatalities and bicyclists» deaths are on the rise in many countries.

It results in deaths of drivers, pedestrians, and the dog.

Arguably — and often labeled — the greatest painter of his generation, Luc Tuymans signals in every canvas the necessary limits of the medium, even the coda to its drawn - out death: his reliance on fleeting photographic and filmic imagery, his refusal to spend more than one day on a canvas, and perhaps most of all, his indifference to craft bring the Belgian artist into head - on confrontation with painting, and endow his subjects — from the untouchable (the Holocaust) to the pedestrian (flowers, pigeons)-- with an unmistakable air of violence inflicted.

Bad thing: bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities have increased slightly, representing 16.3 % of all traffic deaths in 2012 compared to 2011's 15.6 %.

D.C.) Traffic fatalities have been relatively stable since the 1990s - around 5,000 pedestrian deaths annually, with 700 of those cyclists.

More on making cities pedestrian and cyclist - friendly: Hoboken, NJ Pays Citizens to Go Car - Free Why Not Aim For Zero Deaths of Cyclists and Pedestrians?»

It is important to note that deaths resulting from cycling collisions, just like motor vehicle collision deaths and pedestrian deaths, are not «accidents» in the sense that all of these deaths were predictable, and therefore preventable.

What I find also interesting is that the rate of injuries and deaths among pedestrians is actually declining.

An earlier version of this story stated that there was a 42 percent increase in pedestrian deaths in Los Angeles since the mayor launched an initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities two years ago.

As cities work to address decades - long issues of equity in street design (low - income people in particular have a disproportionate risk of death or injury caused by traffic crashes), effective bike share station placement and planning can help close the gap by increasing pedestrian visibility at intersections, providing pedestrian refuge areas, protecting bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, and extending the reach of transit.