Sentences with phrase «road fatality rate»

«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.

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Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

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

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

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.

«By the time all the roads are rehabilitated, the fatality rate on those roads are going to be more if we don't do what we are doing now,» Omeje said

Yes, the overall economy also affects traffic fatality rates, with an improving economy being correlated with more deaths on the road.

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.

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.

Accident, injury and fatality rates are much higher during freezing rain than any other type of road ice condition (including snow and sleet) due to its invisibility and element of surprise.

Road fatalities have surged over the last two years to a rate of increase we haven't seen in over 50 years.

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.