Science news articles about 'road deaths'

The European Commission said Friday that it wants to make advanced braking systems and hi-tech tyres obligatory on cars and trucks in an effort to reduce road deaths and greenhouse gas emissions.

... inform their analysis and map the geographic distribution of road deaths between 1985 and 2005. The findings showed ... lowest population density had the highest overall death rates per 100 000 motor ...

As unwelcome as they are, higher gasoline prices do come with a plus side - fewer deaths from car accidents, says a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). read more

... state laws that set the legal drinking age at 21 have been credited with reducing alcohol-related road deaths. An "interesting" finding from this study, Hingson notes, is that the increases in heavy ...

If you die in a car crash tomorrow, the cost of your death would be estimated to be $1.5 million. Research has found its really four times as much.

... were Spanish. The researchers also compared the real evolution of road death data between 2000 and 2006 in order to ... ), 2,181 people died on Spanish roads in 2008. In any case, the engineer stresses ...

The first global assessment of road safety has found that almost half of all road deaths are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.

... traffic accidents. Over the next decade, road deaths are expected to rise particularly sharply in low ... get worse." "Considering the expected rise in traffic deaths over the next few years, the epidemic ...