Sentences with phrase «vehicle occupant fatalities»

In 2004, only thirty - five percent of rural passenger vehicle occupant fatalities were taken to a hospital.

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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.

Ignition interlocks that restrict a vehicle from being started until occupants fasten their seatbelts could reduce traffic fatalities 16 % by 2050, Australian road safety researchers say.

The goal would be to make cars safe enough to prevent most vehicle - occupant fatalities by 2020, says Hyundai Motor America Inc..

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.

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).

Most of these fatalities were the occupants of the other vehicles involved.

Indeed, drunk drivers caused 32 % of all vehicle traffic fatalities in 2012, and of those deaths, 65 % were drivers, 27 % were vehicle occupants, and 8 % were non-occupants.

The effectiveness of seatbelts and air bags have played a huge part in reducing fatality in head - on collisions, reducing the fatality risk by 61 percent with a belted occupant and a vehicle equipped with air bags.

Sixteen percent of the fatalities were truck occupants, 67 percent were the occupants of cars and other vehicles, and 15 percent were pedestrians, bicycle riders, or motorcyclists.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 30 large truck occupants died in motor vehicle crashes in 2013 (the second highest in the country, with Texas coming in first with 87 fatalities)

Seventy six percent of these fatalities were occupants of other vehicles.

«Of the 45 fatalities that occurred in Rhode Island in 2015, the majority were motor vehicle occupants, nine were riding motorcycles and eight were pedestrians.

Motorcyclist fatalities account for 14 % of total crash fatalities, and per vehicle mile traveled, bikers are about 37 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash and 9 times more likely to be injured.

According to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, although large trucks make up only 4.3 % of all motor vehicles registered in the United States, and are involved in only 5.2 % of all traffic accidents, accidents involving large trucks account for nearly 10 % of all traffic accident fatalities — and most of those fatalities are to the occupants of smaller vehicles rather than the trucks.