Posts tagged statistics

• Risks of Radiological Studies

  Amber Wheat | March 04, 2009 5:53 PM | 2 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Yesterday, MSNBC reported on a study by the National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurement. The report stated that Americans are exposed to seven times the radiation that they were in...

• Mysterious P.E. Class Pool Drowning Claims Life of Atascadero High School Student

  Ray Mattison | May 10, 2008 8:43 PM | 2 CommentsSan Luis Obispo, CA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Drowning Death of Atascadero teen during a P.E. class adds to the already dismal numbers of similar losses, many of which might be preventable.

• Teen Driving Safety Week

  Barbara Burks | March 24, 2009 12:01 PM | 1 CommentSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Californians are celebrating by introducing this year’s Impact Teen Drivers educational program. Every year Impact Teen Drivers hands out material to public schools and encourages them to...

• California Hospital Mortality Report Wrangles Rural Nor Cal Hospital

  Todd Slaughter | January 28, 2009 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We don't kill stoke patients! That was the headline quote in the Redding Record Searchlight from Mayers Memorial Hospital CEO Katharine Ann Campbell, responding to a recent hospital mortality report...

• Holiday Season Highway Fatalities Down

  Amber Wheat | December 29, 2008 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The holiday season is a dangerous time to be out and about. The weather conditions are not always ideal, there are more people on the roads, and drivers tend to be a little more stressed than usual....

• Good News: Traffic Fatalities Down and Caltrans Employee Honored

  John Demas | December 18, 2008 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In our business, it seems like all we hear about is when things go wrong. Well the good news is, some things have gone right this year. Every year the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

• Sacramento Has 100 “Hot Spots” for Traffic Collisions!

  John Demas | December 12, 2008 1:22 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  KCRA 3 in Sacramento reported some shocking statistics released from Caltrans this week. Sacramento is second only to Los Angeles when it comes to traffic collision hot spots! We all know that the...

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Statistics

  Amber Wheat | October 10, 2008 7:09 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Very, very interesting stuff. Their website has many different statistics, guides, and safety curriculums. Thanks to a post by Beth Janicek, my attention was brought to the 2007 reports on traffic...

• The Roads are Dangerous on Election Days

  Amber Wheat | October 01, 2008 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A new study published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association compares the number of deaths and serious injuries in collisions on election days than to other Tuesdays in October...

• California Traffic Deaths Hit Record Low in 2007

  John Demas | September 08, 2008 12:57 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  The statistics for motor vehicle accident fatalities in California were recently released and showed a small drop in fatalities. Unfortunately there were still nearly 4000 deaths on California...