Sentences with phrase «risk of a car crash»

In my first few months with Baby V, we were almost exclusively pedestrians, a habit that drastically lowered my risk of a car crash.

Because underinflated tires increase the risk of a car crash, Goodyear has recalled the tires to prevent potential automobile accident injuries.

Not exact matches

He believes that a wider presence of self - driving technologies will reduce the risks associated with driving, as human error is responsible for more than 90 percent of all car crashes.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says Hyundai and Mitsubishi are recalling certain car models because of problems the companies say can increase the risk of crashes.

Also keep in mind that the normal angle of recline for a car's seat back is 20 to 30 degrees from vertical — any more than this and there's a risk that your child could slide under the seat belt in a crash.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

Second, I managed to breastfeed for two years, with and without distractions, without once ever being at risk of running down a pedestrian or crashing my car while doing so.

The ARB is located on the infant car seat base and minimizes the risk of injury by reducing rebound rotation by up to 30 percent in a crash.

However, what you may not know is an incorrectly installed car seat or improperly used harness can put your child at significant risk in the event of a crash...

By clearly defining your expectations before you hand over the car keys, you'll reduce the risk of frustrating conflicts, costly crashes, and other problems.

Crash reports evaluate the ability of the child seat to reduce the injury risk in conditions that simulates a car's interior environment and the forces encountered during a crash.

Called Next Generation (Next Gen), the car seats offer 360 Degree Protection with Head Safety Technology - designed to reduce the risk of head injury and provides protection from all sides in the event of a vehicle crash.

I have a much greater risk of my child dying in a car crash caused by me because I'm driving while sleepy because I'm sleep - deprived if I'm not cosleeping.

A 2009 study conducted as part of Partners for Child Passenger Safety found that kids between 4 and 8 were 45 percent less likely to sustain moderate to serious injuries in crashes when they were restrained in high - back or backless booster seats to lap - and - shoulder seat belts alone — and this reduction in injury risk went up to 67 percent for kids in post-1998 car models.

If you're placing only one car seat in the back seat, install it in the center of the seat — if a good fit is possible — rather than next to a door to minimize the risk of injury during a crash.

It's important to note, though, that the risk of asphyxiation in a car seat is much lower than the risk of being injured or killed in a vehicle crash if a baby is not properly restrained in a car seat.

Be sure to use the top tether: It will limit the motion of the car seat and your child's head in a crash and reduce the risk of injury.

«We know that older kids are at particular risk of injury from a car crash.

Heart disease, diabetes and obesity as well as the risk of accidents like car crashes top the list.

While there is less street racing merely for the pleasure of putting pedestrians and property at risk of death or destruction, the film still includes a plethora of car chases, explosive crashes, bullets and bikinis — and that's just in the opening credits.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

If the ignition switch moves from the run position to accessory, the car would stall and the air bags will not deploy in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of personal injury to the occupants.

In fact, researchers say, the risk of a crash rises 44 % with two teens in a car.

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IT HIS WERE TO OCCUR, THE CAR MIGHT NOT DECELERATE AS EXPECTED INCREASING THE RISK OF A VEHICLE CRASH.

All cars get six airbags, a speed limiter, tyre pressure monitors and stability control, while Active City Brake is now available as a # 250 option on Allure models and above, reducing the risk of crashes at speeds up to 20mph.

Hyundai is recalling 173,000 Sonata midsize cars in the U.S. because the power steering can fail, making them harder to steer and increasing the risk of a crash.

Some of the most popular small cars sold in India, including Maruti Alto 800, Tata Nano, Ford Figo, Hyundai i10 and Volkswagen Polo, have failed crash tests showing high risk of life - threatening injuries in road accidents, according to Global NCAP.

Mitsubishi doesn't always score highly in our annual Driver Power owner satisfaction survey, but the Eclipse Cross was awarded five stars for safety by independent crash - testing experts Euro NCAP, who took into account the car's autonomous emergency braking, lane - departure warning and other sophisticated systems that work together to reduce the risk of collision.

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.

The first - ever independent crash tests of five brands of small cars from India have shown a high - risk of life threatening injuries in road crashes.

Equipping cars and SUVs with electronic - stability control can reduce the risk of involvement in these crashes by more than 50 percent.»

Teens» high risk of crashing is amplified by certain vehicles, and teens are more likely than other drivers to have the least safe types of cars, new studies show.

Side airbags that protect the head reduce a car driver's risk of death in driver - side crashes by 37 percent and an SUV driver's risk by 52 percent.

Recent Institute research found that ESC reduces the risk of serious crashes involving both SUVs and cars.

All 2006 - 07 Fusion, Milan, and Zephyr / MKZ models manufactured after January 2006 include a hard plastic «ramp» bolted above or below the carpeting near the base of the accelerator pedal designed to decrease right leg and foot injury risk in frontal offset crashes (note: information about when a specific vehicle was manufactured is on the certification label typically affixed to the car on or near the driver door).

For years the debate over fuel economy has been about making cars smaller and lighter, changes that could put people at greater risk of dying or being injured in crashes.

To put this into context, that risk is more than 1,000 times greater than the risk of dying in a car crash in Australia (expressed as fatalities per 100,000 population).

In a nutshell: I wear a helmet in situations in which I feel the risk of being struck by a car or the risk of crashing is great.

Car crashes, no matter how minor, can present a number of unique risks to pregnant women.

From research done by the NIH, setting in the rear seat may lessen the risk of dying in a car crash by 39 % as compared to a passenger sitting in the front seat.

And now, IIHS crash tests reveal a high risk of underride accidents when a passenger car hits the back side of a truck.

Driving a car or truck with under - inflated tires increases risk of being involved in a tire - related crash by triple.

After six months, things do get better — but the teen driver is still at a high risk of injury in a car crash.

Research indicates that the risk of a fatal car crash is increased when a passenger between the ages of 8 and 17 is riding with a teen driver, travelling on high - speed roads or not wearing a seatbelt.

Car crashes claim tens of thousands of lives every single year, and while anyone involved in one of these accidents is at risk of serious injury or death, pedestrians are the most vulnerable.

Most of these car crashes occur in high traffic areas and at night, but no matter where a pedestrian is hit, s / he is in far more danger of being seriously injured than the driver involved in the crash, and our most vulnerable citizens — young children and the elderly — are the most of risk.

After all, women are statistically more likely to die in car crashes than from complications during delivery, so cars may be seen as one of the biggest risks to the health of both you and your baby.

Motorcycle riding comes with inherent risks; you are 35 times more likely to die in a motorcycle crash than occupants of cars and trucks.

When you speed without wearing a seat belt, you're at risk of injury, a serious car crash or losing your life.