Sentences with phrase «while pedestrian deaths»

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.

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While there is less street racing merely for the pleasure of putting pedestrians and property at risk of death or destruction, the film still includes a plethora of car chases, explosive crashes, bullets and bikinis — and that's just in the opening credits.

Deaths of African Americans and Hispanics as pedestrians are disproportionately high: although African Americans represent only 12.7 percent of the total U.S. population, they compose 17.3 percent of total pedestrian fatalities, while Hispanics are 15.1 percent of the population but 18.6 percent of pedestrian fatalities.

Add high - tech driven distracted driving to the historic demons of driving while intoxicated or impaired by drugs, reckless or aggressive driving, or speeding and it's not surprising to see why pedestrian accident deaths are on the rise.

While the city has attempted to reduce these pedestrian injuries and deaths through high visibility crosswalks and broader curbs, in the end, drivers must be alert for pedestrians, particularly in congested areas.

Car crashes claim tens of thousands of lives every single year, and while anyone involved in one of these accidents is at risk of serious injury or death, pedestrians are the most vulnerable.

While the vast majority of these projects are well - contained and do not necessarily put pedestrians in harms way, injuries and deaths caused by falling construction debris are surprisingly common.

While this is the first time a pedestrian has been hit and killed by a vehicle being driven autonomously, it's not the first death attributable to a vehicle being driven by a computer.

While the March 18 incident was the first pedestrian fatality involving a self - driving car, it's not the first death involving an autonomous vehicle.

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