Sentence examples for vehicle fatalities from inspiring English sources

Vehicle fatalities don't get attention because they occur in ones and twos.

The convergence of the trend lines above is driven primarily by a sharp drop in the rate of motor vehicle fatalities since 1950.

About 30 percent of all vehicle fatalities are tied to drunken driving, down from 50 percent when President Ronald Reagan raised the issue 30 years ago.

The result has been safer cars, safer roads, better drivers  and a decades-long decline in motor vehicle fatalities, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Each year there are hundreds of thousands of motor vehicle fatalities worldwide and more than 40,000 in the United States alone.

Highway officials were pleased that the number of motor vehicle fatalities had declined by almost 1percentt, or 362 deaths, but they said the broader problem was still enormous.

The State Office of Legislative Research said earlier in December that the state's motor vehicle fatality rate -- the number of fatalities for every 100 million vehicle-miles traveled -- was 0.94 in 2003, while the national rate that year was 1.48.

Police officials said it was the only vehicle fatality reported Tuesday morning in the city of Los Angeles.

Tesla, the electric car giant and brainchild of Elon Musk, is at the center of the industry's first driverless vehicle fatality, following a crash while in autopilot mode last May, the New York Times reports.

Furthermore, the motor vehicle fatality rate for rural residents is believed to be almost double that of urban residents, attributed in part due to longer prehospital times [ 32, 33].

Since the late nineteen-sixties, when policy makers started getting serious about preventing road deaths, the annual number of motor-vehicle fatalities relative to the total population has been cut in half.