It's difficult to track the exact role smartphones play in traffic accidents, since many wrecks are caused by more than one factor.
There have been reports that the Blackberry outage there last week coincided with a 40% decrease in traffic accidents, with speculation that drivers were focused on the road rather than on their bricked phones.
Men have always died more in traffic accidents -- initially, they were the more frequent drivers -- but even as women have dramatically increased their mileage in recent decades, the gap has barely budged: 61, 000 men were involved in fatal auto crashes in 2007, compared to only 33, 000 women.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents.
While the number of global vehicle passengers and drivers may not be known, the World Health Organization estimates that 1.2 million people die each year in road traffic accidents (roughly half of which are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists).
An estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic-related accidents each year, according to the World Health Organization.
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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That was just a fraction of the total of 691, 937 reported traffic accidents in 2011.
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The storm pummeled the nation's midsection Tuesday, killing at least five people in weather-related traffic accidents.
But Global Times reports over 2, 000 traffic accidents in Beijing from wet weather yesterday.
The storm pummeled the nation's midsection on Tuesday, killing at least four people in weather-related traffic accidents.
The storm's no-show in Washington came after it pummeled the nation's midsection Tuesday, killing at least four people in weather-related traffic accidents.
It also points out that the Met Police stopped using appeal boards for crimes other than murders or road traffic accidents in 2009.
The number of traffic accidents in China rose 36 percent, to 3.9 million in 2010, resulting in one death every nine minutes, according to the Public Security Ministry.
Makowsky from Townson University and Thomas Stratmann from George Mason University argue that the increase in the number of traffic tickets leads to a decrease in the number of accidents.
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It includes a proposal to trial lights giving cyclists priority over other traffic in an effort to reduce accidents.
Built initially to help deal with the floods that regularly threatened the city, it now co-ordinates 30 government agencies and provides mobile applications to keep citizens in touch with potential accidents, traffic black-spots and other city updates.
In 2010, in more than 6, 000 New York City traffic accidents involving cyclists, 36 people died, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Google thought big when it aimed to reduce accidents, the time and energy wasted in traffic, and the number of cars on the road by 90 percent.
But many commuters and motorists said they did not really see the point of the scheme and some drivers reckoned the idea of having one route in and out restricts traffic flow and does not allow for accidents or other road closures.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2010 18% of injury accidents (3, 092 deaths and 416, 000 injuries) involved driver distraction eating, grooming, talking on a cellphone or texting.
He concluded that if drivers were physically prevented from breaking speed limits (including temporary ones imposed because of bad weather or traffic), there would be a 59 percent reduction in fatal accidents.
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He quotes a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety which suggests there is on average a 40% decrease in all accidents and a 90% drop in fatal ones when a traffic intersection is replaced by a roundabout.
Not only do commuters in Southern California inhale the worst year-round particle pollution levels, but Riverside drivers also face the highest rate of fatal auto accidents per capita, and Los Angeles drivers spend the most time sitting in traffic.
In Toronto 130 cameras on bridges and skyscrapers watch city streets, providing video of traffic snarls and accidents.
In the absence of natural predators deer populations are continuing to expand, threatening biodiversity and causing road traffic accidents and crop damage, say researchers.
In the summer, more people are on the road, and when there is more traffic, there are more accidents.
Then in May, the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices issued a report linking Chantix to more side effects, including traffic accidents.
For example, the greatest risks even in some of the scariest parts of the world are not of kidnap or murder, but of illness, traffic accidents or violent crime.
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