One study found an excess 75 traffic deaths per year after retail sales began inColoradoin January 2014, compared with states without similar laws. But it found no similar change in Washington state. The other study looked at those states plus two others that allow recreational pot s...
The Global status report on road safety published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015 estimating information from 180 countries indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic deaths has plateaued at 1.25 million per year. This report, the third Global status report on road ...
Speed limits on five arterial roads, which accounted for a quarter of all traffic deaths, were reduced to 50 kilometers per hour, and road design changes were started in dangerous areas, especially around schools. The results are already being see...
like Boston and Washington, D.C., when it comes to traffic deaths per 100,000 residents, with a rate nearly triple of that seen in New York City.
This costs motor insurers a shocking £20m per day in claims.1What difficulty does the company Tesla Motors have? A. New inventions may cause more injuries and deaths.B. The company lacks confidence to make new creations.C. The software should be made officially acceptable.D. The traffic ...
Traffic deaths in the United States fell to their lowest total in five years in 2006, and the rate of deaths per miles traveled dropped to a record low, a federal safety official said Monday. Highway crashes killed 42,642 people last year, said Nicole Nason, administrator of the National ...
However, only 47 countries implement an urban speed limit of 50 km per hour or less and reduce limits further on roads around schools, residences, and businesses, it said. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan warned that speed is at the core of the global road traffic injury problem. ...
In the COVID-19 era, fatal accident percentages are up this year despite the smaller number of vehicles on the roads, NHTSA's latest data shows.
But in the developing world, traffic deaths are on the rise. Across all countries, traffic kills more than 1.2 million people a year — a number set to triple by 2030,The Washington Postreported, based on the most recent Global Burden of Disease study. ...
According to the UN Environment program4, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality guidelines are necessary to avoid the impacts of bad air, which causes around 7 million premature deaths per year. Policies and efforts to reduce air pollution could significantly improve air quality ...