Sentences with phrase «road accidents each year»

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A 27 - year - old man from Zaandam who caused a fatal accident on a country road last October has been jailed for three years and banned from driving for...

Over one million people die on the world's roads every year and 90 percent of these accidents are due to human error.

Lauren has walked the road of trauma and grief for years, mainly as a PTSD therapist and then most recently in her personal life after the loss of her adopted daughter through a failed adoption and then the subsequent stillbirth of her daughter Rhiannon at 39 weeks from a cord accident / cord compression in March of 2013.

Charles Tiedje, 37, a 13 - year veteran of the Arlington Heights Police Department, was on routine patrol when the accident occurred about 11 a.m. at Windsor Drive and Palatine Road.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

«If we don't start putting serious money into road maintenance we are going to have some very serious accidents and claims hitting local authorities for many years to come.»

By design or by accident, November 27 and Bisi Akande Trumpet bridges appear the grandest of the signature road projects, wrapped in political symbols, that would in history, define the developmental temper of the Aregbesola years.

Existing research from the Department for Transport in 2013 shows winter is a dangerous time of year for motorists, with a reported 57,260 cars across England and Wales involved in accidents as a result of wet, flooded and icy roads.

«LASEMA, in the last one year had responded to numerous fire incidents, road accidents, flooding, illegal parked trucks, gas explosion / emission amongst other emergencies in record time, thereby saving lots of lives and properties worth millions of naira,» Oladejo said.

But looking at the first quarter of 2016 there was a 14 % increase in the number of people killed and seriously injured in road accidents (5890) compared with the same period the previous year.

Fatal or serious accidents on major roads increased by 10 % and on minor roads increased by 17 % when comparing the first quarters of this and last year.

However, Britain is not immune from fatalities, with 1,422 children killed or maimed in deprived areas in 2005, making road accidents the leading cause of death among ten to 25 - year - olds.

The World Health Organization estimates that more than 1 million people are killed in road traffic accidents each year.

But concerns about the safety of autonomous cars are misplaced in a world where 1.2 million people die every year in road accidents due to human error, says Paul Newman, a robotics engineer at the University of Oxford, whose team is developing autonomous cars.

Over the past 30 years, a range of proven interventions, including legislation and extra safety features, have cut the toll of alcohol - fuelled road traffic accidents, they say.

«Research is increasingly showing that a blow to the head, such as that sustained in a road accident, triggers biological processes in the brain that burn away in the background for years,» added Dr Scott.

Many had sustained these in road traffic accidents, such as being hit by a car, between 11 months to 17 years prior to the study.

Using data released in December 2012, Murray and his colleagues have calculated that road accidents in 2010 cost humanity 75 million years of healthy life — more than measles, lung cancer, tuberculosis or iron - deficiency anemia.

Two million people experience a traumatic brain injury worldwide each year, mostly as a result of a road accidents or falls.

Eighteen years and 8,500 species of birds later, Snetsinger further embarrassed her physicians by dying in a road accident while birding in Madagascar.

Every year over a million people die from road accidents due to human error.

A strained marriage, a tipsy New Year's Eve party and a deadly road accident are but the opening gambit of «Midnighters,» a just - taut - enough thriller about ordinary people faced with extraordinary dilemmas.

Reservation Road (R for profanity and disturbing images) Revenge flick, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, revolving around an anguished college professor's (Joaquin Phoenix) desperate search for the driver (Mark Ruffalo) of the car which claimed the life of his 10 year - old son (Sean Curley) in a hit - and - run accident.

Young, inexperienced drivers have the highest accident rates on the road - they account for 25 per cent of road deaths, and one in five will crash within their first year of driving.

With over 15,000 road accidents involving pedestrians under the age of 16 recorded last year, it is imperative that schools are continually adapting and improving road safety outside of their schools.

Gold Bug, I really don't care if there's only one death a year on the road caused by speeding, the point is that if everyone judged for themselves what they personally considered was safe for them to drive at we all know that the result would be excessive speeds and accidents.

Sure the ride is lumpy and there's a little hunting from the single - clutch, robotised manual and four - wheel - drive transmission, but you can thread this car along almost any road, park it and three - point turn it without too much fear of an embarrassingly public accident (in 14 years I've never driven a car that attracts so much attention).

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The data accumulated by the Indian government reveals that a road accident occurs every minute, 16 deaths occur every hour and 20,000 deaths happen due to drunk driving every year.

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But 17,000 people die each year in road accidents.

OSTEEN — Memorial services for Brian Ramsey, the 30 - year - old Apopka carpenter who died in an early morning auto accident earlier this week on Maytown Road, will be Friday, his family said.

More than 1,000 children die in road traffic accidents on European roads each year.

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Their marriage hit a road bump some years back when Mark had an affair, and their three teenage children now live with Eva and her second husband, John - that is until he dies in a freak accident and Mark comes back into Eva's life to help with the children while she grieves.

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27 - year - old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near - fatal accident.

Bankruptcy is only a bump in the road — okay, maybe more like a car accident blocking both lanes of traffic — but it is surmountable, and by taking steps to show credit companies that you are responsible you can turn your credit around in just a few years.

And with so many drivers expected to take to the roads, it's no accident then that National Road Safety Week, which begins on May 15 and runs through until May 21 this year, coincides with the start of the summer driving season.

Anyone involved in a hit - and - run accident can be fined up to $ 3,000 or jailed up to a year under the Road Traffic Act.

Cayo woman critical after traffic accident A 33 - year - old woman from Cayo is in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a road traffic accident in the Orange Walk district yesterday.

She died on the island in 1988, a brain Hemorrhage, road accident and drug overdose have all, over the years, been mooted as the possible cause.

For example, the law that vehicles should be driven on the right side of the road, the speed limits in various areas generally 15 — 65 mph depending, requirements of insurance, requiring testing and licences, making drunk driving illegal, etc. (George Will had written an article a few years ago comparing possible AGW policy to a global 5 mph speed limit; sure there would be fewer traffic accidents but would the cost be too great (what about lives, health and wellbeing, and wealth benifits from higher - speed transport?)

Over the years, doctors have taken a lead in setting health priorities, on topics from sewers and drains to immunisation, smoking and alcohol and road traffic accidents.

A good proportion of the deaths that occur on Virginia roads each year are the result of accidents involving trucks.

Texting Behind the Wheel: A Guide to Texas Laws on Cell Phone Use While Driving Nearly 1.6 million accidents occur each year because drivers are distracted by their cell phones on the road, and that number is only growing.»

Late last year, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) confirmed in a study what many of us who drive on a daily basis have long suspected — large commercial trucks are overrepresented in the number of fatal vehicle accidents that happen on the road.

As many as 500,000 truck accidents occur on the roads of the United States every year.

In this 17 year old victim car accident brain injury case (Cikojevic v. Timm, 2010 BCSC 800) the claimant was the middle - seat passenger in the defendant's compact truck when he drove it off the road and into a tree.

Every year, there are numerous road traffic accidents in Virginia, many of which involve trucks.