Sentences with phrase «of road fatalities»

The number one cause of road fatalities is speed.

In 2013, India had the highest number of road fatalities (the latest year for which data was available) at more than two lakh deaths.

After two years of stagnation (2014 and 2015), the number of road fatalities was reduced by 2 % in 2016, and by another 2 % in 2017.

The authors point out that «Of all the developed countries in the world, the US is by far the worst performing in terms of road fatalities and injuries,» the main reason being that «Americans drive a lot and far and don't look to be slowing down anytime soon.»

... [And in 2002, the last time for which data is available] China, with 2.6 percent of the world's vehicles, had 21 percent of its road fatalities.

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.

Not exact matches

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A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

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

* Reinvest a portion of auto insurance revenue in road safety programs to reduce injuries and fatalities and to keep rates as low as possible.

There has been a significant rise in the number of cyclists on London's roads in recent years accompanied by a rise in serious injuries and fatalities.

A DfT spokesman said: «Britain has some of the safest roads in the world and the number of fatalities has fallen by 44 % over the last 10 years, but we are determined to do more.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

However, Britain is not immune from fatalities, with 1,422 children killed or maimed in deprived areas in 2005, making road accidents the leading cause of death among ten to 25 - year - olds.

David Sinclair, head of policy for Help the Aged, said: «Safety on our roads is of paramount importance - around 40 per cent of pedestrian fatalities are older people and older people are far more likely to be severely injured or killed in accidents.

Some 82 percent of Staten Islanders own at least one car, putting more pressure on road conditions and causing more pushback to some initiatives in de Blasio's «Vision Zero» plan to eliminate traffic fatalities.

It's difficult to pinpoint how many land animals are killed by vehicular traffic annually — no single entity keeps track — but over a 17 - month period, one study documented more than 8,000 fatalities along a 1.1 - mile stretch of road in Indiana.

Using their state - of - the - art simulation facility in the School of Psychology scientists at The University of Nottingham are exploring the use of car driving simulators as tools for training and testing drivers in order to reduce road traffic accidents and fatalities.

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.

Story number 3: Call it map - crash quest; researchers have published a map of America's roads based on driving fatalities.

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

«FMCSA is pleased to work with a group of partners that are dedicated to safety and share our agency's goal of reducing crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses on the road,» said FMCSA Deputy Administrator Daphne Jefferson.

Road fatalities drop, fuel efficiency improves, and drivers are saved from the tedium of... well... driving.

The number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on U.S. roads in 2016 increased by 2.2 percent, and resulted in a fatality rate of 1.18 deaths per 100 VMT - a 2.6 percent increase from the previous year.

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.

And it's not like road fatalities will become a thing of the past; there'll surely be some doozies when, for instance, mainframe glitches simultaneously send 4500 cars into the same Chuck E. Cheese's parking lot headed for the same space at 100 mph.

On April 13, 2013, Galindo, a commercial driver's license (CDL) holder, was operating a tractor - trailer on U.S. 90 near San Antonio, Texas, on the wrong side of the road when the vehicle was involved in a head - on collision with an SUV, resulting in four fatalities and one serious injury.

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.

To estimate side airbag effectiveness in on - the - road crashes, Institute researchers used data from the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System and General Estimates System to compute the relative risk of dying for drivers of 1997 - 2002 car models with and without side airbags when their vehicles were struck on the left (driver) side.

«As we mark 20 years at the forefront of road safety, we are very proud that Euro NCAP's programme of safety tests has achieved major, life - saving improvements in cars and has helped Europe reach the lowest road fatality rate for any region in the world,» said Euro NCAP's secretary general, Michiel van Ratingen.

Volvo says half of all US vehicle fatalities include a road departure.

Called «The End of the Road,» Teahupo`o is the home of Billabong's annual Pro Championships, and it has a particularly nasty legacy of injuries and even fatalities.

As many as die on the roads of UK in what timescale (hint average fatalities = 9 per day)?

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.»

They also tend to ignore the one most obvious solution to lower road fatalities — a drastic reduction in the number of motorised vehicles on the road.

Perhaps in the light of the increasing numbers of pedestrians and cyclists in the roads, the increasing number of fatalities, and the newfound popularity of trucks as weapons, it is time to reconsider our urban road designs and make protected bike lanes the new normal on busy streets.

Nearly half of all traffic fatalities happen to these «vulnerable road users» as the WHO calls them.

The progress made by the EU in reducing road traffic fatalities over past decades has been mainly the result of decisive action taken at local, national and EU level.

The size and weight of a truck, compared to other vehicles on the roads of Louisiana, means there is an increased likelihood of serious injury, or even fatalities, as the result of a collision with such a large vehicle.

However, while this trend is encouraging, much more improvement is still required before the EU can achieve its objective of halving road fatalities between 2010 and 2020.

However, the most fatalities occurred in July, which is likely a result of the fact more people are on the road during that month, taking vacations or celebrating the summer holidays.

Many of these accidents involve trucks, which are obviously far bigger and heavier than other vehicles on the road, and therefore more liable to cause serious injury or result in a fatality.

According to a study by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the arm of the DOT that regulates the trucking industry, commercial vehicles consist of only 4 percent of registered vehicles on the road, but are involved in over 13 percent of overall traffic fatalities.

In 2016, motorcyclist fatalities hit an all - time high and although motorcycles account for just 3 % of the registered vehicles on the road, they make up over 20 % of accident deaths.

Bicycle accidents have a higher risk of fatality due to the fact that bicyclists have little to no protection from road conditions during an accident.

At the end of 2017 the UK Government published transport statistics in Great Britain showing road traffic accident statistics from 2016 for fatalities and injuries, whilst also highlighting the most common causes of road traffic accidents, which include tiredness and being distracted.

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.

Off - road or all - terrain vehicles are involved in hundreds of accidents and fatalities every year.

Their inability to come to stop quickly is often a leading factor of many truck crashes especially when other motorists are driving erratically or the trucker is negotiating slippery, wet or icy road surface conditions.Faulty truck brakes and defective tires cause many accident fatalities as does fatigue by truck drivers hurrying to deliver their load on schedule.

Approximately 10 percent of truck collision fatalities (348 deaths) happened on minor roads while the majority of truck crash deaths totaling 2157 (60 percent) happened on other major roads.