Sentences with phrase «percent of vehicle crashes»

According to the California Office of Traffic Safety, «Most crashes happen with less than two seconds reaction time,» and «80 percent of vehicle crashes involve some sort of driver inattention.»

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates about 2 percent of vehicle crashes can be attributed in whole or in part to a vehicle defect.

20 percent of vehicle crashes are linked to driving while drowsy and inadequate sleep is a contributing cause for a litany of health horrors, including heart disease, diabetes, and depression, continuing right down to simple irritability.

Not exact matches

And trucks have a crash rate 28 percent lower than that of any other vehicles.

And almost 50 percent of the children fatally injured in motor vehicle crashes were unrestrained.

While the rate of deaths in motor vehicle crashes in children under age 16 has decreased substantially — dropping 45 percent between 1997 and 2009 — it is still the leading cause of death for children ages 4 and older.

By alerting drivers to potential collisions, DOT believes, connected vehicle systems could eliminate 80 percent of crashes among nonimpaired drivers and greatly improve roadway efficiency.

They concluded that the country could avoid 85 percent of crash deaths attributable to alcohol - involved motor vehicle crashes during the 15 - year implementation period.

Because almost 70 percent of its patients are the victims of motor vehicle crashes, automobile safety is a major focus of study at the center.

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..

News reports of the Florida crash come just as consulting firm AlixPartners released a study showing that nearly 75 percent of Americans want driverless vehicles, and as BMW, Intel, and Mobileye have announced they intend to bring «highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021.»

The advertisements target male passenger vehicle occupants ages 18 to 34 years old, a group that comprised 66 percent of unrestrained occupants killed in traffic crashes in 2010 — the highest proportion among all occupants.

NHTSA estimates that connected vehicle technology could potentially address about 80 percent of crashes involving nonimpaired drivers.

The study by IIHS» VP of research, Jessica Cicchino, shows that ``... lane departure warning lowers rates of single - vehicle, sideswipe and head - on crashes of all severities by 11 percent and lowers the rates of injury crashes of the same types by 21 percent.»

Small overlap testing is conducted by crashing the vehicle into a 5 - foot - tall rigid barrier with 25 percent of its overall width overlapping the barrier.

The odds of a vehicle being in a backover crash reported to police were 41 percent lower than the odds for vehicles that didn't have these technologies standard.

An Australian review of deaths of children younger than 5 in low - speed vehicle run - over crashes, including backovers, found that more than 80 percent were children younger than 3.

In two - vehicle side impact crashes, 38 percent of car occupant deaths occur when a pickup or sport utility vehicle strikes the car.

ESC lowers the risk of a fatal single - vehicle crash by about half, and it lowers the risk of a fatal rollover crash by as much as 70 percent (see «Roof strength affects injury risk in SUV rollover crashes, study finds,» March 15, 2008).

That means it is less inclined to roll over than traditional SUVs — a matter of some concern to SUV opponents, although rollovers account for 2.5 percent of all crashes involving all kinds of vehicles on U.S. roads.

A 2008 Institute analysis of insurance claims found that, all other factors being the same, drivers of vehicles with seat / head restraint combinations rated good in Institute evaluations were 15 percent less likely to sustain neck injuries in rear - end crashes than drivers of vehicles with poor head restraints (see «Neck injury risk is lower if seats and head restraints are rated good,» March 15, 2008).

This is a dramatic result, given that only about 7 percent of police - reported crashes occur between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. and involve more than one vehicle.

Thirty - eight percent of single - vehicle side impact crash deaths occur when vehicles strike trees or poles on the dead occupants» side of the vehicle.

An analysis of 14 years worth of crash data involving Institute - rated vehicles shows that a driver of a vehicle rated good in the moderate overlap test is 46 percent less likely to die in a frontal crash, compared with a driver of a vehicle rated poor.

Police crash data from 25 states between 2009 and 2015 for vehicle models where the systems were sold as optional reduced rates of single - vehicle, sideswipe and head - on crashes by 11 percent, and injuries in such crashes by 21 percent.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates the installation of ESC reduces single - vehicle crashes of cars by 32 percent and single - vehicle crashes of SUVs by 57 percent.

NHTSA estimates that ESC has the potential to prevent 72 percent of the car rollovers and 64 percent of the SUV rollovers that would otherwise occur in single - vehicle crashes.

A 2008 Institute analysis of insurance claims found that, all other factors being the same, drivers of vehicles with seat / head restraint combinations rated good in Institute evaluations were 15 percent less likely to sustain neck injuries in rear - end crashes than drivers of vehicles with poor head restraints.

A new Institute crash test evaluates how well vehicles protect people in frontal crashes involving 25 percent of a vehicle's front end.

Vehicles roll in just 2 percent of crashes, but these crashes account for more than a third of passenger vehicle occupant deaths.

The number of drivers of 0 -3-year-old passenger vehicles involved in fatal frontal crashes has fallen 55 percent since 2001.

The Institute's research on the effects of front crash prevention on police - reported crashes found that vehicles with forward collision warning and automatic braking had a 20 percent higher rate of being rear - ended than vehicles without the systems.

The rate of fatal crashes per 10,000 registered vehicle years was 31 percent lower for motorcycles equipped with optional ABS than for those same motorcycles without ABS.

Boasting a very low 6.5 percent chance of injury in its crash tests, Tesla again appears to be positioning this vehicle as family - friendly.

An earlier IIHS study estimated that lane departure warning could be relevant to 23 percent of fatal crashes (see «New estimates of benefits of crash avoidance features on passenger vehicles,» May 20, 2010).

In the simpler analysis, the rate of all crashes was 18 percent lower for vehicles equipped with the feature, and the rate of injury crashes was 24 percent lower.

Controlling for differences in vehicle weight, driver age and gender, and other factors, the researchers found that drivers of vehicles with good ratings were about 46 percent less likely to die in frontal crashes than drivers of the poor - rated vehicles they crashed into.

Because only 40 percent of the front end is involved, this test places a far greater stress on the structure of the vehicle than the federal frontal crash test.

(In the small overlap crash test, the vehicle is lined up so that 25 percent of it — a front corner — overlaps with a barrier during a frontal, 40 - mph [64 km / h] collision.)

The «plus» in Top Safety Pick + is added if the vehicle scores an «acceptable» or «good» in their small overlap crash test, in which the vehicle is lined up so that 25 percent of it — a front corner — overlaps with a barrier during a frontal, 40 - mph (64 km / h) collision.

Small overlap front crashes involve an overlap of as much as 25 percent of a vehicle's front end.

In the crash, 25 percent of a vehicle's front end on the driver side strikes a rigid barrier at 40 mph.

Looking at crashes involving claims of $ 2,000 or more, analysts found 16 percent fewer insurance claims were filed for neck injuries among females in vehicles with good - rated seats / head restraints compared with people in vehicles with poor seats / head restraints.

Automakers representing 99 percent of the U.S. auto market have committed to making front crash prevention with automatic braking standard on virtually all new vehicles by 2022.

The force of the deploying airbag (16 percent) and ejection from the vehicle (13 percent) also accounted for significant portions of the driver deaths in these frontal crashes.

That's right, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), most of these fatalities aren't to the children on the buses, but rather to occupants of other vehicles involved in the crashes (72 percent) or to other non-occupants of the buses, such as those who are walking and biking to school (20 percent).

In the test, which is more challenging than either the head - on crashes conducted by the government or the Institute's moderate overlap front test, 25 percent of a vehicle's front end on the driver side strikes a rigid barrier at 40 mph.

Electronic stability control (ESC) could prevent nearly one - third of all fatal crashes and reduce the risk of rolling over by as much as 80 percent (see «ESC reduces multiple - vehicle crashes as well as single - vehicle ones,» June 13, 2006).

In the crash, 25 percent of a vehicle's front end on the driver side strikes a 5 - foot - tall rigid barrier at 40 mph.

The largest effect is in single - vehicle crashes, which were reduced 40 percent with the addition of ESC.