In fact, overall traffic deaths have dropped by 39% since 2001, according to the NYPD.
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In Europe, the share of traffic deaths attributable to drunken driving was reduced by more than half within 10 years after the standard was dropped.
This is more than twice the nine percent increase in overall traffic deaths reported during the same period by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Traffic deaths among children had fallen since the 1990s, he added.
It shows that vehicle traffic deaths plunged from the 1920s until 1970, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was formed, and has improved slowly ever since.
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If there's a silver lining to Stuckler's findings, it's that a drop in traffic deaths appears to have canceled out the impact of the added suicides on the overall mortality rate of the countries.
And because drinking too much is associated with disruption, disease, and death, they calculate that doubling the tax on alcohol will produce 35 percent fewer traffic crash deaths, 11 percent fewer deaths from sexually transmitted diseases, and 6 percent fewer deaths from violence.
The Berlin-based non-profit Verkehrshclub Deutschland (Traffic Club Germany) has also repeatedly called for legal limits, which the organisation says could reduce traffic-related deaths and injuries each year by the hundreds.
Earlier this year the executive set further road traffic accident targets, including the reduction of deaths and injuries by 40% and a 50% reduction in accidents involving children, by 2010.
More recently, in an effort to tackle the indiscipline and deaths on Egyptian roads, the government passed a traffic law that applies stiff fines and prison sentences for minor infractions.
The bad news is auto crashes still accounted for 32, 788 deaths in 2010, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which means a vehicle-related fatality occurs an average of once every 16 minutes.
Near drownings and deaths have occurred in swimming pools and also with children wandering into traffic or falling off playground ladders and other gymnastic equipment.
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Not only that, but deaths in vehicles of children under five years old is the biggest source of traffic fatalities.
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.
One of the key goals of the trail upgrade is to create safe options for active transportation by improving lighting, traffic controls and other measures that have been shown to increase pedestrian safety and reduce injuries and deaths.
The traffic system is designed to improve road safety and assist people as they cross the road following three deaths in the past three years.
The recent increase in highway deaths is an abrupt reversal of fortune, and it follows a 26 percent drop in traffic fatalities recorded between 2005 and 2011, which was largely credited to safer cars, stricter state DUI and seatbelt laws and, specifically as far as younger motorists are concerned, licensing procedures that placed increased restrictions on teen driving.
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Deaths on the roads have been declining and are currently at their lowest level since 1926, when traffic levels were much lower.
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