Sentences with phrase «vehicle crash fatalities»

Recent data reveal sharp increases in motor vehicle crash fatalities in 2015 with the upward trend continuing in 2016.

While it is dangerous to drive at night, the majority of large truck vehicle crash fatalities in 2013 happened in sunlight between 6 AM and 3 PM.

This week, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a new report looking at the increases in pedestrian motor vehicle crash fatalities during 2009 — 16.

NHTSA is establishing a long - term coordinated effort across industry, academia, non-governmental organizations, Federal and State governments to eliminate the estimated 6,000 yearly drowsy driving - related motor vehicle crash fatalities and the more than 500,000 injury crashes.

«We already know that alcohol plays a tragic role in the number of motor vehicle crash fatalities each year.

They analyzed federal data from 2009 to 2015 and found no significant uptick in motor vehicle crash fatality rates in the first 3 years after legalized marijuana.

Not exact matches

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.

The fatal crash in Tempe was the first pedestrian fatality involving a self - driving vehicle in the United States.

Both will want their own way and we know crashes in today's plastic vehicles don't make as loud a noise when the vehicles were made of metal but the fatalities of recklessness and arrogance for not thinking things through to a logical conclusion are the same.

The number of alcohol - related fatalities in police - reported motor vehicle crashes has dropped steadily from 750 in 1984 to 292 in 2014, according to the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, according to a Cuomo release.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Tuesday that the number of alcohol - related fatalities in police - reported motor vehicle crashes for the state of New York has dropped steadily from 750 in 1984 to 292 in 2014.

With data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System covering 1994 to 2011, the researchers analyzed fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado and in the 34 states that did not have medical marijuana laws, comparing changes over time in the proportion of drivers who were marijuana - positive and alcohol - impaired.

Uzay Kirbiyik conducted a study of risk factors associated with drivers» survival in head - on vehicle collisions by examining Fatality Analysis Reporting System database records in 1,108 crashes.

It was based on two national data sets used frequently in analyses of motor vehicle crashes: the Fatality Analysis Reporting System; and the National Automotive Sampling System's General Estimates System data sets (2006 - 2010).

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.

The study, conducted jointly by researchers at Harvard and UT Southwestern Medical Center, is the first to look at state - level trends in child fatalities involving motor vehicle crashes, and to account for differences in geography and state laws and regulations.

«While we've seen a decrease over the years in motor vehicle fatalities involving people under the influence, the nature of those crashes is changing,» said study author Fernando Wilson, PhD, associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Approximately one third of motor vehicle fatalities are alcohol - involved, and crashes involving alcohol are associated with more serious injuries and more fatalities than those that don't involve drinking.

The findings, reported online this month in Accident Analysis & Prevention, provide one plausible explanation for why injuries and fatalities from motor vehicle crashes have decreased to historic lows even as cellular technology use has increased dramatically.

In Philadelphia, a total of 31 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes during 2012, representing 29 percent of the city's total traffic fatalities..

That's the primary reason that in 2016, based on vehicle miles travelled, motorcyclist fatalities occurred nearly 28 times more frequently than passenger car occupant fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

Research indicates that it can communicate risks and provide warnings to help vehicles avoid common crashes, amounting to at least a 50 percent reduction in crashes, injuries, and fatalities.

NHTSA ensures the safety of motor vehicles and highways through highway safety grants to States and through guidance and regulations on States, including the requirement for States to have a performance - based highway safety program designed to reduce traffic crashes, which must include performance measures and targets related to non-motorized fatalities.

The largely elevated Parkway is designed to separate intercounty traffic from those making local trips, reducing vehicle crashes and fatalities.

«Vehicle - to - vehicle technologies have the potential to significantly reduce fatalities and injuries in crashes and could one day help motorists avoid crashes altogether,» said David Strickland, NHTSA AdminisVehicle - to - vehicle technologies have the potential to significantly reduce fatalities and injuries in crashes and could one day help motorists avoid crashes altogether,» said David Strickland, NHTSA Adminisvehicle technologies have the potential to significantly reduce fatalities and injuries in crashes and could one day help motorists avoid crashes altogether,» said David Strickland, NHTSA Administrator.

FMCSA developed the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners program as part of the agency's commitment to enhancing the medical oversight of interstate drivers, and preventing commercial vehicle - related crashes, injuries, and fatalities.

Though the number of fatalities overall was too low for the study to draw a final conclusion, the limited numbers that were available pointed to an 86 % reduction in fatal crashes of these types in vehicles with the system.

Finally, some good news, bad news: Cars are now so safe, already, that for the past decade deaths from motor vehicle crashes per year have dipped below the number of suicides: 32,675 based on the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), versus an estimated 41,000 suicides last year.

NHTSA estimates that two V2V functions, intersection movement assist and left turn assist, together could potentially prevent up to nearly 600,000 crashes and about 1,300 fatalities annually when fully deployed through the light vehicle fleet.

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.

U.S. regulators are opening a probe into why some airbags failed to deploy in Hyundai and Kia vehicles after crashes — including one in Canada — that reportedly resulted in four fatalities and another six injuries.

A just - released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) statistical projection of traffic fatalities for 2015 estimates that 35,200 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes — an increase of about 7.7 % as compared to the 32,675 fatalities reported in 2014.

«Full - vehicle crash tests are among the tools we use to assess vehicle - safety - technology advancements that have helped reduce the motor - vehicle fatality rate by about 30 percent over the last two decades.»

For cars, sport utility vehicles, and minivans combined, there was an 11 percent decrease in fatality risk in frontal crashes after changing to sled certification (RR = 0.89; 95 % CI = 0.82 — 0.96).

The authors used a nationally representative sample of police - reported crashes in the United States to show that, after accounting for crash severity, front - seat occupants in vehicles with airbags had higher fatality rates than those in vehicles without airbags.

Chuck Kahane, a former NHTSA researcher, examined 1990 to 2014 crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) for model year 1990 - 2015 vehicles to estimate the effectiveness of safety belts and the relative risk of various seating positions.

That's right, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), most of these fatalities aren't to the children on the buses, but rather to occupants of other vehicles involved in the crashes (72 percent) or to other non-occupants of the buses, such as those who are walking and biking to school (20 percent).

Side impact tests as a crash test for vehicle safety are also very important since side impact accidents in vehicles result in a high fatality rate.

The IIHS also evaluates the integrity of vehicle roofs since 25 percent of vehicle passenger fatalities is a result of a vehicle crash when vehicle rolls over.

Of that group of fatalities, 56,000 (90 percent) motorcycle riders died as a result of a two - vehicle crash.

According to a report by the Virginia Highway Safety Office, 775 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes in the state in 2012, which accounted for a 1.44 percent increase in traffic fatalities when compared with the previous year.

Because studies have confirmed that teen drivers are «over-represented» in the statistics for injuries in car accidents as well as fatalities in crashes, there are continuing efforts to try and combat the danger of teenage drivers getting involved in an accident while driving a motor vehicle.

Commercial trucking crashes are some of the most life - threatening motor vehicle accidents, with over 275 reported fatalities in Idaho nearly every year.

While this number makes up only a small percentage of vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities, the statistics can be misleading.

In 2010, there were a total of 17,663 crashes caused by drivers with these aggressive driving behaviors (In 2013, there were a total of 255 vehicle crashes that led to fatalities).

Of the 2,532 fatalities from multivehicle motorcycle crashes, 89 % came from accidents in which two vehicles collided.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, nearly one - fourth of all passenger vehicle fatalities resulting from multi-vehicle crashes nationwide involve a large truck.

According to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, roughly 25,000 fatalities happen each year due to lane departure crashes, or situations in which one vehicle veers out of its lane in a highway or another multiple - lane road.

In fact, Illinois car accident statistics show that the number of motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities has been steadily increasing since 2014.

According to the article, vehicle crashes account for roughly 40 % of all police officer fatalities, and they have been the single largest cause of death for police officers since the mid-1990s.