Sentences with phrase «overall driving fatalities»

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Broad reductions in incomes and employment pushed down overall miles driven in the U.S., contributing to steep declines in traffic fatalities in 2009 and 2010.

But now, not only is the overall amount of driving surging, the rate of fatalities is inching back up.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Health.

In 2009, for the first time in four years, distracted driving fatalities stopped rising, remaining at 16 percent of overall fatalities.