Sentences with phrase «traffic deaths each year»

The argument is based on the premise that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards imposed in 1975 resulted in a reduction of vehicle weights, which in turn caused about 2,000 traffic deaths a year that would not have occurred otherwise.

A whopping 39 % of traffic deaths each year are alcohol related.

Not exact matches

Of the more than 600,000 global road traffic deaths that occur each year, China's comprise more than a third, with 220,000, according to Bloomberg's Global Road Safety Program.

We're now on track to see more than 35,000 traffic deaths for the year, which would make it the deadliest since 2008.

Though the arrival of the robot car promised a dramatic reduction in the 1.25 million road traffic deaths that occur around the globe each year, there was also the sneaking suspicion that someday, for some reason, a self - driving vehicle would cause a collision — perhaps because of a string of bad code, an unexpected equipment failure, or an impossible decision.

This «alarming uptick» comes on the heels of last year's 7.2 percent spike in traffic deaths, which was the largest since 1966.

For decades, the mystery surrounding the death of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by priests and involving law enforcement.

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.

The mayor pointed out the number of traffic - related deaths has gone down within the past four years under the Vision - Zero Dusk and Darkness campaign, but admits more work needs to be done.

After two years of major declines in New York City's traffic deaths, the number of people killed in crashes dropped slightly last year while pedestrian deaths rose, leading to questions about whether Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious campaign to eliminate traffic fatalities has stalled.

Queens Boulevard, once known as the «Boulevard of Death» in NYC tabloids, has not seen a pedestrian fatality in three years, and has become a centerpiece of the mayor's Vision Zero traffic safety campaign.

In the wake of 12 - year - old Dashane Santana's death last month, the Department of Transportation plans to widen sidewalks into landscaped plazas and change traffic patterns and signal timing along the most dangerous stretches of Delancey Street, officials told Community Board 3.

More than 32,000 people died on U.S. highways in 2011, and while the overall number of traffic deaths has declined in recent years, the number of distracted - driving traffic deaths has slightly increased, according to David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (traffic deaths has declined in recent years, the number of distracted - driving traffic deaths has slightly increased, according to David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (traffic deaths has slightly increased, according to David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

According to the institute's research, the probability of adult men dying early from traffic accidents or cerebrovascular disease more than halved between 1970 and 2006, while death by suicide held relatively steady through the years.

However, road traffic collisions are the leading cause of death of people between the ages of 15 and 29 years old, according to the World Health Organization, is road traffic collisions.

«Primarily enforced texting laws that banned only young drivers from texting were the most effective at reducing deaths among the 15 - to 21 - year - old cohort, with an associated 11 percent reduction in traffic fatalities among this age group in states with such bans.»

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Health.

Instead, in a chart on page 26 of the report on «expected fatalities per year, worldwide, from a variety of causes,» asteroids are compared with shark attacks (three to seven deaths), firearms accidents (2,500), earthquakes (36,000), malaria (one million), traffic accidents (1.2 million), air pollution (two million), HIV / AIDS (2.1 million) and tobacco (five million).

That's close to as many deaths caused by traffic crashes that same year, according to federal statistics.

In fact, in 2012 more traffic deaths occurred in June, July, and August than any other time of the year.

A shortage of sleep is to blame for some 100,000 traffic accidents, 76,000 injuries, and 1,500 deaths a year.

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Traffic deaths last year increased 5.6 percent compared to 2015.

When placing my Jeep gear it will jerk real hard, then when pushing on the gas the Jeep will hesitate and lose all power, I too drive to work in heavy traffic I am scared to death that I will be in a fatal accident, last year I took this Jeep to the dealership and explained what the Jeep was doing he explained to me it was bad gas, it now does this a lot, I once again took it into the dealership he explained to me this time that it was the transmission module which of course is not covered in Chrysler wonderful life - time powertrain warranty how Nice this is going to cost me a pretty Penny, so I have been reading on all these complaints about the same problem come on Chrysler recall

A new study predicts traffic deaths will fall only slightly over the coming years, given current economic forecasts.

The foul air, with people stuck in traffic, is costing thousands of unnecessary deaths every year.

An earlier version of this story stated that there was a 42 percent increase in pedestrian deaths in Los Angeles since the mayor launched an initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities two years ago.

Freese shows that coal emissions kill about 30,000 people a year, causing nearly as many deaths as traffic accidents and more than homicides and AIDS.

As a society we tolerate 40,000 automobile traffic - related deaths each year, plus billions of dollars in property damages.

Whose reckless use left Argentina at the top of the ranking in traffic accidents: in the 16 years the association «Luchemos por la Vida» has been keeping track, deaths from traffic accidents have only dropped from the 7,000 a year once (2002), and have surpassed the 8,000 three times.

This year, New York City Mayor Bill de Balsio rolled out Vision Zero, an ambitious plan that aims to end traffic - related deaths.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that there have been over 800 Chicago truck accident related deaths in the past 5 years.

As he pedaled his way through traffic, a privately owned trash truck struck 16 - year - old Roger Stockton, bringing the sophomore to an immediate death.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (the CDC), in the U.S., more than 10,000 people die each year in drunk driving crashes (that's about thirty people per day), accounting for roughly 1 / 3rd of the total deaths that result from traffic accidents each year in the United States.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that thousands of deaths occur per year due to impaired driving.

According to the latest data from the Utah Department of Public Safety, Utah saw an increase in motor vehicle traffic crash deaths in 2015 to the highest number in seven years with 276 people killed.

That year, Torrance traffic accidents caused 889 injuries and deaths.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) reports that more than 4,500 motorcycle deaths occur every year.

In the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has estimated that driver fatigue causes 100,000 crashes, 71,000 injuries, 1,550 deaths, and $ 12.5 - billion in monetary damages each year.

A violation of this statute is considered a noncriminal traffic infraction, however if there is a personal injury or willful violation of the statutory requirements, it constitutes a third degree felony; and, if the crash results in a death or a willful violation of the statutory requirements, it constitutes a first degree felony, which carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of two years.

For the almost 30 years of our skilled lawyers» combined experience, we have fought to protect the rights of clients in a broad range of traffic accidents and families grieving a tragic wrongful death.

Motorcycles accounted for 1.2 % of all vehicle accidents in 2012; however, the number of deaths from those accidents accounted for around 9.8 % of all fatal traffic accidents in Texas that year.

These alcohol - impaired - driving deaths accounted for more than 30 percent of the all motor vehicle traffic fatalities in the United States that year.

In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), speeding contributes to 31 percent of the car accident deaths in the United States each year.

Nationwide, bicycle accidents last year killed 716 and injured 52,000, compared to 701 deaths and 43,000 injuries in 2007, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

According to 2003 data, the Florida Department of Transportation reports that on average over 700 traffic accidents occur every day throughout Florida with over 3,000 auto accident deaths each year.

Traffic accidents involving cars and other motor vehicles cause thousands of injuries and deaths every year.

In North Carolina, alcohol was a factor in 423 motor vehicle deaths in 2008 — 29.5 percent of all the state's traffic fatalities that year.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, at least 5,000 deaths are reported each year due to automobile vs. pedestrian accidents.

In general, traffic death totals have fallen, with 93 in the first six months of this year versus 128 during the same period in 2013.