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These risky driving behaviors are associated with depression as contributing factors to vehicular suicide. [9] Impact velocity may be maximized by exceeding speed limits or by maneuvering into a head-on collision with a heavier and less maneuverable vehicle like a bus or semi-trailer truck. Crash investigators found head-on collisions with ...
According to a former president of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, Canada's federal government has failed to implement the 1995 United Nations guidelines for national suicide prevention strategies, the government has never formally acknowledged that "suicide is a national public health issue", and while Quebec, Alberta and Nova ...
Intentional homicide is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its Global Study on Homicide report [3] thus: . Within the broad range of violent deaths, the core element of intentional homicide is the complete liability of the direct perpetrator, which thus excludes killings directly related to war or conflicts, self-inflicted death (suicide), killings due to legal ...
And with a population just topping 100,000, its speeding fatality rate comes out to 10.894 deaths per 100,000 residents annually, making it the most dangerous location for speeding in the U.S ...
A bill legalizing medically-assisted suicide in Canada strikes the right balance between defending fundamental freedoms and protecting against abuses.
The Criminal Code of Canada does not have a specific offence for vehicular homicide, but has a series of provisions covering driving offences causing death, [2] among them: dangerous driving causing death; criminal negligence causing death; failure to stop for police causing death; street racing causing death; impaired driving causing death
For decades, speed bumps have been a go-to solution for calming traffic and improving pedestrian safety. However, recent research and growing community concerns are challenging this long-held ...
Suicide is a worldwide issue which is disproportionally affecting developed countries, with 23% of the total suicide rate despite having only 17% of global population. [ 1 ] There are many competing factors that come into play when determining the epidemiology of suicide such as biological sex, race and sexual orientation, religion, social ...