Pintos were involved in 4.1 per cent of all rear-collision fire fatalities — which is to say that they may have been as safe as or safer than other cars in most respects but less safe in this one.
"No one is systemically collecting data of collisions, fires, evacuations, groundings, sinkings," said Jim Walker, a maritime lawyer in Miami who has attended more than half a dozen Congressional hearings about cruise ship crime and passenger safety.
Others are killed in collisions, fires or derailments.
There are several types of offshore risks, like structural and marine events, collisions, fires, dropped, objects, blow outs, risers/pipelines leaks, process leaks, and transport accidents.
But in the week since a catastrophic collision and fire killed 11 people in the St . Gotthard Tunnel about an hour's drive northwest of here, those cautions have been put aside.
Then, in the late 1990's, Mir suffered a string of high-profile, high-altitude disasters -- a collision, a fire, several massive computer shutdowns -- troubles so vast and so economically intimidating that Energia's president, Semyonov, decided to deorbit his outpost and call his final crew in.
Contact the doctor if your child falls, is in a vehicle collision or fire, almost drowns or swallows a known poison.
At around 4 45 pm, four and a half hours after the collision, Holland fired the cannon for the final time, as Arctic sank stern-first.
But more than 30 accidents, ranging from collisions to fires, have been blamed on what investigators deemed to be mistakes or acts of negligence by captains, mates, deckhands or other ferry employees.
Table 1 Fatalities per class of accident in EU-25 Fatalities by type of accident (2004 2005) Accidents caused by RS in Motion Accident at LX Others Collisions Derailments Fires on board Total No of accidents 3,644 2,917 5,853 1,294 1,202 271 15,181 No of fatalities 1,976 842 68 61 8 1 2,956 Percentage 67 29 29290 0 100.
