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By Luther Turmelle North Bureau Chief lturmelle@nhregister.com CHESHIRE -- Police have a new, high-tech tool that they believe will help them reduce motor vehicle accidents in town.
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WARRENDALE, Pa., April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Automotive crashes are the single largest cause of death for pregnant females in the United States, as well as the leading cause of traumatic fetal injury mortality. Each year approximately 160,000 pregnant women are involved in motor vehicle accidents, which lead to the death of 160 women and an additional 865 fetal losses. Unfortunately, up to this point, safety engineers did not have sufficient data on how to prevent injuries and deaths in accidents involving pregnant women. A new book released by SAE International changes that by providing readers with substantial analysis of pregnant occupant biomechanics.
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Heart disease remains America's top killer, but do you know how many lives it claims? How many deaths are caused by motor vehicle accidents? How old do women live to be, compared with men?
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November is the cruelest month for deer in New Jersey, where state roads have grown more deadly in recent years. According to the state Department of Transportation, a total of 4,744 deer had been killed this year in motor vehicle accidents on state highways as of Nov. 9.
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Look around a classroom of 20 students, and chances are at least two are children of substance-abusing parents. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 11.9 percent, or more than 8 million children, live with at least one parent who is dependent on or abusing alcohol or other drugs. Children of substance-abusing parents are more likely to experience abuse, neglect and injuries or death related to motor vehicle accidents. With this exposure, they also are at greater risk for having their own alcohol/drug issues, delinquency, depression and poor academic performance.
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Mayor James Richetelli Jr. dedicated his State of the City address Friday to the memories of four teens killed this year in two motor vehicle accidents, saying the tragedies "have broken the heart of the small city with a big heart. It was a while before Richetelli got to comments on the budget, but when he did, the news was encouraging locally despite national economic woes.
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There are studies of World War Il veterans and victims of motor vehicle accidents that say Yes. Yet some mental health professionals argue that the individual must have had symptoms early on, but didn't recognize them. [...] many law enforcement officers with no obvious previous symptoms do develop PTSD months or even years after a traumatic event. At 9:17 AM, a jetliner with 260 people aboard exploded just after takeoff, and bodies and pieces of the plane fell into the Queens neighborhoods of Belle Harbor and Rockaway Beach, part of Long Island, fifteen miles from Manhattan and the pile.
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Allegheny County had the highest number of motor vehicle accidents and the second-highest number of traffic fatalities in Pennsylvania in 2010, but the raw numbers don't tell the whole story, two PennDOT officials said. The figures come from the agency's 2010 Crash Facts & Statistics report, which does not measure accident or fatality rates by specific categories. If it did, it would show that Allegheny County has the lowest fatality rate in the state, said Steve Cowan, safety press officer for PennDOT District 11.
