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Only 28 countries, representing 449 million people (seven percent of the world's population), have laws that address the five risk factors of speed, drunk driving, helmets, seat-belts and child restraints. [citation needed] Over a third of road traffic deaths in low- and middle-income countries are among pedestrians and cyclists.
Aside from use for premeditated suicides, as commuters spend more time driving, vehicles may be available at the instant of a momentary and temporary impulse towards self-destruction fueled by road rage. Suicides comprise nearly two-thirds of the 33,000 annual gun deaths in the United States. [10]
The driver of a 2021 Tesla Model S told the California Highway Patrol that while driving eastbound on "Full Self-Driving" mode in the Yerba Buena Tunnel portion of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge near Treasure Island, at approximately noon on November 24, 2022, [205] the vehicle cut across several lanes of traffic to the far left lane ...
The suspect -- 42-year-old Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who also died in the attack -- was "hell-bent" on killing as many people as possible, driving a pickup truck onto the sidewalk around a ...
Some of the leading causes of crashes include distracted driving, speeding, and drug and alcohol use. ... More than 3,300 people died and nearly 290,000 were injured in crashes involving ...
For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6] In 2022, there were 42,795 total motor vehicle fatalities. [ 7 ]
[94] [95] For reference, 4,842 people died in fatal collisions involving trucks in 2020. [95] In the United States, individual states, such as Nevada, have addressed the regulation of self-driving vehicles (including self-driving trucks) since the 2010s. [7] By 2017, 33 states had promulgated regulations for self-driving vehicles. [7]
The United States Department of Transportation estimated that in 2014, the so-called "year of the selfie", [1] [2] 33,000 people were injured while driving and using a cell-phone in some fashion, which can include talking, listening, and "manual button/control actuation". [3]