As it did then, the railway ministry responded to this week's fatalities by sacking officials from the region responsible, in this case Shanghai.
But there's a downward trend in teen fatalities on the nation's highways.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) said there were 52 fatalities on Scotland's mountains in 2011.
While U.S. fatalities in car crashes are decreasing, far too many families and friends know the pain of such loss.
Among the crisis's first fatalities was a British citizen who was killed Wednesday while traveling in the convoy to the airfield, Mr. Cameron said.
"We are delighted there have been no fatalities in today's big race, " Dr. Mark Kennedy from the World Society for the Protection of Animals told CNN on Saturday .
Fatalities among U.S. military personnel have declined from a hundred and twenty-six in May, 2007, to just thirteen this past July, the lowest total of any month since the war began, in March, 2003.
Motorcyclists are welcoming the attempts to reduce motorcycle fatalities on the county's roads.
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In 1965, there were 47, 089 motor vehicle fatalities in the U.S. That same year, consumer activist Ralph Nader's famous indictment of the auto industry was published, Unsafe at Any Speed.
Meanwhile, the number of U.S. troop fatalities in March reached 38, a higher figure than in February but continuing the general decline in American troop deaths through the last six months.
Large trucks were involved in accidents that accounted for almost 10% of road fatalities in the U.S. in 2009, and truck drivers are five times more likely to die in work-related accidents than the average US worker.
According to the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 703 children under the age of 15 died in accidental firearms deaths between 2001 and 2010, the latest year for which the agency's statistics on fatalities are available.
She was seeking to become the first woman rider to win the race, but caused controversy in the buildup when she claimed it would have been "a lot worse if two jockeys had lost their lives" in reference to the two fatalities at last year's Grand National.
The Indianapolis 500 has produced 41 deaths since 1909, according to the race's Web site, while the NASCAR circuit has suffered ten fatalities since 1989, though none have occurred since Earnhardt's death.
"We see fatalities in the field where there's no evidence of contact with any part of the interior, " says Saeed Barbat, who runs Ford Motor's passive safety engineering department.
Deaths from the latest storm ended the nation's longest break between tornado fatalities since detailed records began being kept in 1950, according to the Storm Prediction Center and National Climatic Data Center.
"We see fatalities in the field where there's no evidence of contact with any part of the interior, " says Saeed Barbat, who runs Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people )'s passive safety engineering department.
Between 2002 and 2011, only two of 58 U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighter fatalities came from hazardous trees like the one that killed Veseth.
The Douglas County sheriff's office said the resort had one or two fatalities every year.
The only other time in Metrorail's 33-year history that there were customer fatalities was in January 1982, when three people died as a result of a derailment between the Federal Triangle and Smithsonian Metrorail stations.
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GM's research, a disproportionate share of accidents and road fatalities occur at night.
He said reducing road accidents involving young people would bring down the cost of everyone's insurance premiums and prevent "a lot of the fatalities on our roads".
When you hear that the captain had left the ship, that he did not know that there were fatalities, as we just heard in this report, what's your reaction?
"It's often the temperature which is the most significant factor in fatalities, " Mr Thompson said.
In the U.S. over the past 20 years, crime, traffic fatalities, air pollution and infant mortality have dropped.
It's important to also note that while a lot of the military's focus has been on Baqouba, most of the American troop fatalities in the past week since these operations began has happened in Baghdad.
From the late 1990s to the end of the last decade, the fatal-crash rate of U.S. scheduled carriers fell by more than 80%, with no fatalities at all in some years.
Worse, the vast amount of truck mileage will have a huge carbon footprint and increase the risk of traffic accidents and fatalities: Large trucks accounted for 8 percent of all fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. according to the most recent data.
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Rob Behnke, Fair Indigo's co-founder and president, says some shoppers are calling in and citing the latest fatalities in Bangladesh.
The United States has counted 522 fatalities through Thursday, and nearly 1, 800 people had died worldwide through August 13, U.S. and global health officials said.
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