Sentences with phrase «reduce crash fatalities»
The information from these and other studies are then used in officer traffic safety programs to help reduce crash fatalities and injuries.
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Child restraints provide excellent protection, reducing crash fatality risk for infants by more than 70 percent and for toddlers by more than 50 percent, compared with riding unrestrained (see «How can child restraints be improved to save more lives?»
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Tesla also went on to cite stats from the government showing Autopilot reduced crash rates by 40 percent, and suffered far fewer fatalities per mile than other cars.
Pat, It's more like trying to reduce drunk driving fatalities by making sure the drunk's car isn't really a TANK that crashes through car after car after car before finally plowing into a crowded market and running over some more people.
Rodriguez crashed the press conference to criticize Rangel for receiving an endorsement from a group he said opposes efforts to reduce traffic deaths on the same day Mayor Bill de Blasio signed 11 bills into law as part of his Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic fatalities.
Legislator Lynne Dixon said, «While STOP - DWI efforts have reduced the number of alcohol - related fatalities, still too many lives are lost because of crashes caused by drunk or impaired drivers.
This initiative is part of a statewide effort to reduce drunk driving crashes and associated fatalities by a combination of public education and a heightened enforcement of drinking and driving offenses.
In a welcome address during the Command's First Quarter retreat held in Uyo on Tuesday, he stressed that the command would improve enforcement and rescue services to reduce road crashes and fatality.
«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.
«These grants will help ensure that our state partners have the tools and resources they need to support FMCSA's mission of reducing crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.»
Due to the number of fatalities involving large trucks in work zones and the fact that each year approximately 25 percent of all fatal work zone crashes involve large trucks, FHWA has been working with FMCSA, NHTSA, and other stakeholders to develop strategies to reduce large truck crashes and fatalities in work zones.
NHTSA ensures the safety of motor vehicles and highways through highway safety grants to States and through guidance and regulations on States, including the requirement for States to have a performance - based highway safety program designed to reduce traffic crashes, which must include performance measures and targets related to non-motorized fatalities.
The largely elevated Parkway is designed to separate intercounty traffic from those making local trips, reducing vehicle crashes and fatalities.
FMCSA within the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been given the responsibility to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), within the Department of Transportation (DOT), has been given the responsibility to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
As the acting Administrator over the last 11 months, Scott has been laser - focused on the Agency's mission of reducing large bus and truck crashes and fatalities.
«Vehicle - to - vehicle technologies have the potential to significantly reduce fatalities and injuries in crashes and could one day help motorists avoid crashes altogether,» said David Strickland, NHTSA Administrator.
Cities should publicize traffic safety laws and behaviors; educate their communities about the consequences of violating laws aimed at reducing pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities; and conduct enforcement where they will be most effective based on local crash data.
The mission of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), an Operating Administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses (motor coaches).
As with other behavioral issues, new technology holds the promise to significantly reduce crashes and fatalities.
In carrying out its safety mandate to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses, FMCSA:
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in cooperation with its partners and customers, strives to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
Its primary mission is to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
Methods that are currently being implemented in the United States are included in the guide to empower work zone safety practitioners to effectively reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute have estimated that collision mitigation braking could reduce fatalities in rear - end crashes by 44 percent and injuries by 47 percent if all tractor - semitrailers were equipped with the technology.
«Full - vehicle crash tests are among the tools we use to assess vehicle - safety - technology advancements that have helped reduce the motor - vehicle fatality rate by about 30 percent over the last two decades.»
Frontal airbags reduce driver fatalities in frontal crashes by 29 percent and fatalities of front - seat passengers age 13 and older by 32 percent.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, helmets can reduce the likelihood of a motorcycle crash fatality by 37 % and head injuries by 69 %, but hardly any states, including Texas, have a universal helmet law.
It is estimated that helmets reduce the likelihood of a crash fatality by 37 percent.
How well the DoT's plan is working becomes clear when these numbers are compared to the 2007 totals of 33,077 crashes and 183 fatalities, which some believe was the «trigger» year that caused the state to start focusing on driver safety and reducing the number of vehicle accidents that occur.
Clearly, the Illinois and Texas defensive driving studies demonstrate that DTA's Program for Driver Improvement course is successful in reducing the number of fatalities and injuries resulting from traffic crashes.
The Impaired Driver Program (IDP)(previously known as Drinking Driving Program (DDP)-RRB- is part of New York State's effort to lessen the incidence of injury, disability, and fatality that results from alcohol and other drug related motor vehicle crashes, thereby reducing the risk of re-offense for an impaired driving offense.