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Distracted driving: Arizona truck driver distracted by TikTok videos gets over 20 years for deadly crash Report: As US traffic fatalities fall, distracted drivers told to 'put the phone away or pay'
A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.
The old road-safety paradigm of purely crash risk is a far more complex matter. Contributing factors to highway crashes may be related to the driver (such as driver error, illness, or fatigue), the vehicle (brake, steering, or throttle failures), or the road itself (lack of sight distance, poor roadside clear- zones, etc.).
Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating reports of alleged engine failures in GM's 6.2-liter L87 V-8, an engine used in a wide variety of trucks and SUVs.
Fatalities that result from motor vehicle crashes are the second largest cause of accidental deaths in the United States. [3]Motor vehicle fatalities in the United States are reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The accident shows problems with FSD’s nighttime detection abilities, data mapping and vision-only approach, researcher Troy Teslike, who closely tracks Tesla sales and technologies, said on X.
On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991. [5] There are large disparities in road traffic death rates between regions. The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000 ...