Sentences with phrase «road fatalities for»

For example, in the European Union, road fatalities for bus and coach...

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According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, some of the smallest cars on the road have the highest driver fatality rates.

NHTSA works to prevent injuries and fatalities for all road users — including children, teens, older drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers with disabilities.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

David Sinclair, head of policy for Help the Aged, said: «Safety on our roads is of paramount importance - around 40 per cent of pedestrian fatalities are older people and older people are far more likely to be severely injured or killed in accidents.

A report from the Commission for Global Road Safety warned that international funding for road building risks increasing fatalities as it is not linked to road safety initiatiRoad Safety warned that international funding for road building risks increasing fatalities as it is not linked to road safety initiatiroad building risks increasing fatalities as it is not linked to road safety initiatiroad safety initiatives.

Using their state - of - the - art simulation facility in the School of Psychology scientists at The University of Nottingham are exploring the use of car driving simulators as tools for training and testing drivers in order to reduce road traffic accidents and fatalities.

And it's not like road fatalities will become a thing of the past; there'll surely be some doozies when, for instance, mainframe glitches simultaneously send 4500 cars into the same Chuck E. Cheese's parking lot headed for the same space at 100 mph.

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.

Vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, still account for almost half of Europe's road fatalities and bicyclists» deaths are on the rise in many countries.

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.

«As we mark 20 years at the forefront of road safety, we are very proud that Euro NCAP's programme of safety tests has achieved major, life - saving improvements in cars and has helped Europe reach the lowest road fatality rate for any region in the world,» said Euro NCAP's secretary general, Michiel van Ratingen.

It should also be noted that even the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), in its report, suggests that there might be a correlation between traffic deaths and cellphone use, saying «a more recent factor contributing to the increase in pedestrian fatalities may be the growing use of smart phones by all road users, which can be a significant source of distraction for both drivers and pedestrians.»

... [And in 2002, the last time for which data is available] China, with 2.6 percent of the world's vehicles, had 21 percent of its road fatalities.

In 2016, motorcyclist fatalities hit an all - time high and although motorcycles account for just 3 % of the registered vehicles on the road, they make up over 20 % of accident deaths.

At the end of 2017 the UK Government published transport statistics in Great Britain showing road traffic accident statistics from 2016 for fatalities and injuries, whilst also highlighting the most common causes of road traffic accidents, which include tiredness and being distracted.

Even though this is not the same problem as road rage, which is criminal assault with a car, aggressive drivers are responsible for many horrific injuries and even fatalities.

Moore Blatch personal injury partner Ciaran McCabe comments: «We are seeing a growing epidemic of cyclists being injured on London roads that are being left with life - changing injuries — urgent action needs to be taken now to reduce the level of fatalities and injuries for this group of road users.

The accident increased traffic congestion on the interstate for most of Friday morning, and caused the first road construction worker fatality in Indiana since 2012.

For instance, with respect to safety concerns, human error is the cause of 93 % of road traffic accidents, with 1.3 million fatalities and 50 million injuries globally every year.

Accidents in Ontario on the rise In a recent article written for the Advocate Daily, we commented on a report indicating a five - year high for fatalities for accidents in Ontario on OPP patrolled roads and waterways.

As you start to think about risks on the road and what your need for RV insurance covearge might be, consider these statistics about the leading causes of motor vehicle fatalities:

Using collected data about car accident statistics, Japan, for example, reduced road fatalities by a 25 % between the years of 1970 and 2008, and is currently installing advanced traffic flow monitors to further reduce road deaths.

Although motorcycles account for less than 5 percent of vehicles on the roads in Arkansas, they make up 14 percent of traffic fatalities.

In 2013, India had the highest number of road fatalities (the latest year for which data was available) at more than two lakh deaths.

More specifically, in 2008 there were 703 reported traffic fatalities in the State of Arkansas, averaging out to 25 deaths per year for every 100,000 drivers on Arkansas roads.

• About 3000 people die each year on our roads • Road traffic incidents are the single biggest killer of young people between 16 and 25 years old • More women between the ages of 16 and 19 die as passengers than drivers • A third of all drivers killed are male and 20 years of age or less • Young drivers have more crashes at night • Young drivers» crash risk increases when only accompanied by their peer group • 17 - 25 year olds are 10 % of drivers but account for a third of all fatalities.

The fatality rate for motorcycles is much higher than regular passenger vehicles, according to Transport Canada: in 2013, while the percentage of motorcycles on Canada's roads was just under three per cent, they account for over 10 per cent of the fatalities on the road.

«Our coalition was founded with the express purpose of increasing road safety and dramatically reducing the over 35,000 road fatalities that occur in the U.S. each year,» said David Strickland, counsel for the Self Driving Coalition for Safer Streets.

Proponents of the technology have championed self - driving cars as a potential antidote to the tens of thousands of traffic fatalities that occur each year, while some safety advocates have expressed concern with the speed with which these vehicles are being pushed onto public roads for testing.