Sentences with phrase «road fatalities in»

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Motorcycle accidents contribute to 19 % of the total road fatalities in Florida.

According to data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, there were more than 37,000 road fatalities in 2016 — the largest such number in nearly a decade.

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The 17 fatalities included 12 people within Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, two just outside, one on a nearby road, and two who died in hospital.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

In 1917, Detroit had 65,000 cars on the road, which resulted in 7,171 accidents and 168 fatalitieIn 1917, Detroit had 65,000 cars on the road, which resulted in 7,171 accidents and 168 fatalitiein 7,171 accidents and 168 fatalities.

The only other Tesla Model S - related fatality took place in May, when Joshua Brown, a 40 - year - old entrepreneur, crashed his vehicle on a tractor trailer crossing the road in Florida.

* Reinvest a portion of auto insurance revenue in road safety programs to reduce injuries and fatalities and to keep rates as low as possible.

Brakes on: A self - driving Uber car that struck and killed a pedestrian on a dark road in Phoenix this month was the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle.

The EU proposals are based on claims that more than five people die on roads every day due to technical failures, but the BMF say that other statistics show that there is little correlation in fatality rates between member states that have motorcycle RWTs and those that don't.

There has been a significant rise in the number of cyclists on London's roads in recent years accompanied by a rise in serious injuries and fatalities.

A DfT spokesman said: «Britain has some of the safest roads in the world and the number of fatalities has fallen by 44 % over the last 10 years, but we are determined to do more.

Independent Police Complaints Commission figures suggest there were 11 deaths in or following police custody in 2013/14, 68 apparent suicides following police custody and 39 other deaths following police contact, as well as 12 in road traffic fatalities involving the police.

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 fatalitIn 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 fatalitin Uyo on Tuesday, he stressed that the command would improve enforcement and rescue services to reduce road crashes and fatality.

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.

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.

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.

Some 82 percent of Staten Islanders own at least one car, putting more pressure on road conditions and causing more pushback to some initiatives in de Blasio's «Vision Zero» plan to eliminate traffic fatalities.

However, driver inattention is a major factor in road traffic crashes and fatalities.

It's difficult to pinpoint how many land animals are killed by vehicular traffic annually — no single entity keeps track — but over a 17 - month period, one study documented more than 8,000 fatalities along a 1.1 - mile stretch of road in Indiana.

One 2014 study based on modeling animal movement found that increasing vehicle density on existing roads, rather than adding more roads with lower density, resulted in fewer wildlife fatalities.

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.

The number of motor vehicle fatalities involving children under age 15 varies widely by state, but occurrences are more common in the South, and are most often associated with improperly or unused restraints and crashes on rural roads, a new review of child - related auto fatalities shows.

Thus, the more expensive alcohol is in a country, the lower the fatality rate on its roads.

«Roadwork sites have high crash rates and there have been numerous fatalities at roadwork sites in Queensland involving workers and public road users,» he said.

The number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on U.S. roads in 2016 increased by 2.2 percent, and resulted in a fatality rate of 1.18 deaths per 100 VMT - a 2.6 percent increase from the previous year.

It's always been a factor in the outsize teen road - fatality rate, but with the explosion in cell phones and iPods — talking, texting, tuning, and a plethora of distractions I could hardly imagine back when a friend gave me my first lesson in the subject by torching the rear seat of her Ford Maverick when the lit end of her cigarette blew off on the highway — things have gotten progressively worse.

In 2009, American roads were the safest they have ever been, with the lowest traffic fatality and injury rates ever recorded.

On April 13, 2013, Galindo, a commercial driver's license (CDL) holder, was operating a tractor - trailer on U.S. 90 near San Antonio, Texas, on the wrong side of the road when the vehicle was involved in a head - on collision with an SUV, resulting in four fatalities and one serious injury.

The Safer People, Safer Streets initiative was launched in September 2014 in response to the rising fatalities, and the initiative had three prongs: Safer Communities (focused on the Mayors» Challenge), Safer Streets (focused on the 2015 Road Safety Assessments), and Safer Policies (focused on identifying policy effectiveness and gaps).

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.

As more bikes have hit Arizona roads, the fatality rate has increased 55 percent, from 85 to 132 deaths in 2011 and even more in 2012.

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

As many as die on the roads of UK in what timescale (hint average fatalities = 9 per day)?

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.»

Anarchy that has completely eliminated dangerous crashes and road fatalities and created a surge in bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

They also tend to ignore the one most obvious solution to lower road fatalities — a drastic reduction in the number of motorised vehicles on the road.

... [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.

The authors point out that «Of all the developed countries in the world, the US is by far the worst performing in terms of road fatalities and injuries,» the main reason being that «Americans drive a lot and far and don't look to be slowing down anytime soon.»

Perhaps in the light of the increasing numbers of pedestrians and cyclists in the roads, the increasing number of fatalities, and the newfound popularity of trucks as weapons, it is time to reconsider our urban road designs and make protected bike lanes the new normal on busy streets.

In my location, there are usually several fatalities a year, due to people walking on roads when they shouldn't.

The progress made by the EU in reducing road traffic fatalities over past decades has been mainly the result of decisive action taken at local, national and EU level.

After two years of stagnation (2014 and 2015), the number of road fatalities was reduced by 2 % in 2016, and by another 2 % in 2017.

However, the most fatalities occurred in July, which is likely a result of the fact more people are on the road during that month, taking vacations or celebrating the summer holidays.

Many of these accidents involve trucks, which are obviously far bigger and heavier than other vehicles on the road, and therefore more liable to cause serious injury or result in a fatality.

According to a study by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the arm of the DOT that regulates the trucking industry, commercial vehicles consist of only 4 percent of registered vehicles on the road, but are involved in over 13 percent of overall traffic 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.