Sentences with phrase «pedestrian accidents account»

These types of vehicle - pedestrian accidents account for roughly 40 percent of all fatal vehicle - pedestrian collisions.

Not surprisingly, pedestrian accidents account for a large number of fatalities involving automobiles.

Not exact matches

One study estimates that pedestrians are three times more likely to be fatally struck by a vehicle in the weeks that follow the end of Daylight Savings Time.1 Accidents occur mostly because drivers have not adjusted their behaviours to account for less daylight during the morning and nighttime rush hours.2

Car crashes, motorcycle accidents, truck collisions, pedestrian accidents and bicycle accidents together account for 46 percent of all new spinal cord injuries every year.

The same report showed that pedestrian deaths accounted for 14 percent of all traffic fatalities in motor vehicle accidents.

However, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Transportation, pedestrians running out into traffic accounts for only about 15 percent of the pedestrian accidents.

Although crashes involving pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists are less common than car accidents in Chicago (accounting for 1.7 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.5 percent of the total crashes in Illinois, respectively), these accidents are more likely to cause serious injury or death.

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.

This age group now accounts for about half of all pedestrian accidents among youth.

Pedestrians account for more than 30 % of traffic accident fatalities in Orange County.

Your Salt Lake City pedestrian accident lawyer will work with both you and your doctor to determine how your injury will affect your life so that your settlement will take into account the full extent of what you've endured.

Fatal accidents involving a car and a pedestrian accounted for 14 percent of crash - related fatalities in the state of Utah in the year 2011, reaching the highest rate since 2002.