Its plans hinge on eliminating the largest cause of road accidents -- the drivers themselves.
Government figures show 560 people died in 2003 in drink-related road accidents while 2, 600 were seriously injured.
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They showed road accidents were the main killer among 16-to-24-year-olds.
Worried by such behaviour on a two-lane road already known for accidents, the Montana Highway Patrol stopped them.
In southern Austria, at least 29 people were injured - six seriously - in two accidents inside road tunnels in the state of Styria, ORF reported.
Together these technologies create a system that provides immediate warnings of delays, accidents, temporary speed restrictions and road conditions -- the everyday hazards that lie in wait just around the corner.
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In raw totals, road accidents have been the top overall killer of workers--mainly truck drivers and traveling salespeople--since BLS started keeping the data in 1992.
In Germany, a week of freezing temperatures and this winter's biggest snowfall led to hundreds of road accidents, with the country's third busiest airport--Duesseldorf International--forced to close on Sunday.
There was also a 15% fall in the number of personal injury cases brought before the courts last year, at 7, 792 - 59% of which related to road accidents and 22% resulted from accidents at work.
He said accidents during over-taking and crashes involving vulnerable road users such as horse riders and cyclists were also more common in the countryside.
In 2009, the number of road accidents involving personal injury was 31% down on the average for 1994-98.
Long-distance lorry drivers who drink coffee have fewer road traffic accidents, research suggests.
Many other roads were also affected - the A34, A40 and the Oxford ring road had to close following a series of accidents on Sunday night.
The American government's road-safety body has calculated that lane drift on motorways is responsible for 43% of all fatal accidents on highways there.
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