Road fatalities and car accidents

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Last news: August 26, 2008 20:13:55

Speeding and inadequate infrastructure are contributing to deadly collisions on national highways, particularly on routes linking Beirut with Tripoli and Damascus. In the three months from April to June this year, 128 collisions occurred on the Beirut-Tripoli highway. These accidents claimed the lives of 13 people and left 194 people injured. - [Read more]

Speeding South African motorists could soon have their drivers licences suspended when tough new legislation is passed. - [Read more]

Authorities estimate that around 17 000 people die on South African roads each year - and this, they say - has got to stop. - [Read more]

23 August 2008 Bay of Plenty police are frustrated at locals attitudes to driving, after identifying an 18 year-old as the latest victim of a fatal crash. - [Read more]

Recent reports by the Federal Highway Administration indicate that 12 percent of our nations bridges are so blatantly deteriorated that they must be rigorously inspected and quickly repaired. - [Read more]

SOMETIMES its hard not to be a little pessimistic. - [Read more]

A YOUNG boy was orphaned in a horror crash in Adelaides southern suburbs last night. It was the second double road fatality in 24 hours. - [Read more]

A Panama City Beach man died early this morning in a two vehicle traffic crash on Back Beach Road near Hills Road. - [Read more]

The number of traffic fatalities in Delaware decreased by 20 percent last year, ranking it fourth behind South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming in terms of states with the largest percentage drops. - [Read more]

A 39-year-old woman became the State’s 120th road fatality yesterday after her station wagon left a road in the State’s Great Southern town of Ryansbrook and crashed into trees. - [Read more]

Lakeville A Berkley man was killed when the his vehicle rolled over on Country Road yesterday, the second road fatality in Lakeville in a little more than a week, police said. Chris Corey, 32, was alone in his car when police and firefighters arrived about 2 a.m., officials said. On Aug. 1, Vincent DAndrea, 16, was killed after he lost ... - [Read more]

QUEENSLAND police will soon issue on-the-spot fines for public nuisance offences, including urinating in public, to take pressure off the court system. - [Read more]

THERE were four people killed on Irish roads in the republic over the bank holiday weekend, compared with three over the same period last year and five in 2006. - [Read more]

A 39-year-old woman became the State’s 120th road fatality yesterday after her station wagon left a road in the State’s Great Southern town ... - [Read more]

Calls to upgrade the notorious A9 were today given new impetus with independent research which shows accident rates were dramatically cut on another danger road when it was upgraded to include a central reservation. - [Read more]

Calls to upgrade the notorious A9 were today given new impetus with independent research which shows accident rates were dramatically cut on another danger road when it was upgraded to include a central reservation and barrier. - [Read more]

A YOUNG man injured in a double road fatality is accused of attacking the father of one of those killed, six years after the crash. - [Read more]

Crown prosecutors say they are going to fight to have an adult court hear the trial of the 18-year-old man charged in 3-year-old Bianca Leducs death last fall. - [Read more]

Vehicle crashes kill 42,000 people nationwide and 500 Minnesotans every year. Theres a new high-tech way to let drivers know how many fatal crashes have happened on every roadway in the country. - [Read more]

Monday, Researchers from the University of Minnesota plan to unveil an interactive map that shows every road fatality in the Nation. Users can type in an address and see a map or satellite of all road fatalities that have occurred in the area. - [Read more]