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TOPIC: Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, part of the Department of Transportation. shows 43,220 people died in auto accidents in 2003, which is the highest number since 1990 when 44,529 deaths occurred, according to according to
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Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . Of those who were killed last year, 58 percent were not wearing seat belts. Both motorcycle deaths and SUV fatalities increased by 11 percent. The report also stated 17,401 of auto deaths in 2003 were alcohol-related.

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is vice president of training for Smith System Driver Improvement Institute, the oldest and most respected professional driver training company. He joined Smith System in 1981 and received his initial training from Harold L. Smith, the originator of the Smith System. He has trained hundreds of client trainers and thousands of drivers in Smith System classroom seminars and in on-road, behind-the-wheel programs throughout the world. Despite billions spent on vehicle safety improvements, highway fatalities in 2003 reached their highest level since 1990. Traffic accidents remain the number one cause of on-the-job deaths. Drivers need to be taught collision avoidance See collision avoidance system. techniques. These are concepts that don't naturally occur to drivers, they must be consciously practiced to become unconscious habits. How do you change driving habits? Most collisions are preventable if the right precautions precautions Infectious disease The constellation of activities intended to minimize exposure to an infectious agent; precautions imply that the isolation of an infected Pt is optional, but not mandatory. are learned, practiced and used consistently. 817-652-6969 jsmith@smith-system.com PR Contact: Valerie Chereskin 760-942-3116 valerie@chereskincomm.com

Professor Rahim Benekohal, of the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:

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, Urbana-Champaign, is an expert regarding traffic safety and civil engineering. 217-244-6288 217-333-1000 (University PR Phone)

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UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. UCF was founded in 1963 as Florida Technological University with the goal of providing highly trained personnel to support the Kennedy , Department of Psychology, can share his expertise concerning traffic accidents and human response. 407-823-2310

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