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People thinking that hiding a firearm in the closet, underneath the bed or somewhere else where they think it is inaccessible to a child is not proper storage. Children are naturally curious. They might find a firearm that you thought was safely hidden, and that's how accidents happen.

Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of schools. There are reckless drivers at home.

Adequate sleep is associated with good health and performance, as well as fewer accidents -- an even more critical issue when children reach adolescence and need to be aware of the dangers of drowsy driving.

Each year, around 38,000 children in playgrounds are injured seriously enough to have to go to hospital. Many are unavoidable accidents and it doesn't mean that a playground is unsafe.

Except for a couple of bus accidents, there have been no major incidents.

Safety is the foundation of our business. People rely on us to offer safe train and bus service to them. I think we had the appropriate safety measures in place, but oftentimes accidents are accidents.

Safety and loss helps prevent indirect costs of training temporary employees and clerical work because 80 percent of accidents are caused by unsafe acts.

Right now there are around 1.3 billion accidents causing 40,000 fatalities each year. That's the equivalent of two jumbo jets full of passengers crashing every day.

Dennis Green

As they say, a lot of accidents happen around the house so you have to be careful. I'm not sure all the details. I did talk with Calvin and that's the most I could get get from him as far as how it happened. He just kind of slipped and went to brace himself and went through the window.

Brian Ching

Coming back from this injury has been difficult, ... Those thoughts have been in my mind, but I have to put that behind me and just say those are freak accidents and won't happen again. Now I am more conscious of how I treat my body off the field, and that will help.

This infamous list of 51 alleged Explorer accidents is, at best, deeply, deeply flawed, yet has been used by some people to point fingers at the Ford Explorer, all the while ignoring legitimate U.S. government data compiled by the Department of Transportation and independent data compiled by the Highway Loss Data Institute,

Although they might not be able to reduce community rates of violent crime, it's possible they can affect household level risk factors for gun suicide, accidents and homicide,

This is a statewide program offered by the CHP. We have had a good response. The purpose of the program is to reduce fatal accidents, which is the leading cause of deaths for people between 16 and 20. Sixty-five percent of the passengers killed in traffic accidents are riding with young drivers.

This is the first time since 2001 that the annual number of deaths in traffic accidents has fallen below 100,000. These figures show the effectiveness of our work.

There were very few accidents of any significance.

There was virtually no protection from the blast, ... The very flatness of the city center helped seal its destruction. The lack of any warning also contributed: Nobody was in the shelters when the bomb exploded. The whole city was taken by surprise. Only freakish accidents of fate ensured survival. Eizo Nomura was one such survivor, a clerk in the Fuel Distribution and Control Cooperative, a concrete building 100 meters from the hypocenter. Moments before the explosion, he had gone down into the basement to retrieve a document his chief had forgotten. Quite possibly he was the closest man to the hypocenter to survive.

Fiona Shaw

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

Brakemen rode outside, on top of cars, year round, ... Many were killed by tunnel ceilings and by icicles. There were a lot of accidents and wrecks in this area.

Dick Smith

Boating accidents have decreased over the years, and the reason is the boater safety education program is working, and will continue to work.

Everyone was told to stay home today by their news people, and they did, because we have very light traffic conditions, ... Our accidents are pretty low for the amount of snowfall we've received. Basically spinouts and people stuck, and we're trying to get to those people and get them out.

Based on accidents and amount of traffic, we could meet criteria. We might get lucky and get it in the next three or four years.

Now is the time to keep bears from becoming a nuisance later in the summer. Bears that wander near residential areas in search of food are less likely to stay or return if they do not find anything rewarding. Conversely, if bears find food in your backyard they quickly learn to associate residential areas with food and begin to spend more time in those areas. Encounters between humans and bears increase, as does property damage, the risk of human injury and vehicle accidents involving bears.

These bridges are safe to use. The issue becomes, you have so much traffic using them, they may suffer from a safety standpoint of having so many vehicles, and more accidents because you're cramming so many people through a bottleneck. We would never let a bridge that gets into a condition of having failure remain open.

These seven companies have demonstrated a strong commitment to workplace safety and exemplify what all Pennsylvania businesses across the commonwealth should strive to achieve fewer accidents and injuries,

Mike Easley

The State Highway Patrol has responded to more than 3,000 weather-related accidents since Wednesday, ... We still urge people to take care on secondary roads and in rural areas. And especially at night in freezing temperatures it will be very dangerous on the highways of North Carolina tonight.

The big thing for us is to give them a fair and safe surface. When they go down in short track, they often take a pile of people with them and that's when accidents happen.

James Longstreet

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

We've got all nonessential office personnel, people who normally work the desks, out working traffic accidents.

Flavio Briatore

This was a very difficult race, and Fernando has got another fantastic result. The whole team did a great job, with some perfect stops and the strategy was what we needed. Everybody did a great job today. Fisico was pushing hard and really flying when he crashed. I think he did a great job too, but sometimes accidents happen - as we saw with Montoya as well. Fernando did the job he needed to, and now I think it will be difficult for Raikkonen to catch him; but the constructors' championship is much closer, and we will stay focused on that until the end.

Mark Rosenker

The Safety Board believes that had an automatic train control system ... been in place at the time of the accidents, the accidents could have been avoided.

I've seen so many accidents occur, because people aren't paying attention to what's going on in front of them. While they're looking over, their vehicle is still moving, and what happens? ... they're involved in an accident.

What this is really showing us is that there potentially is a discretionary part to emergency room visits. We're not talking about gunshot wounds or car accidents but at the level of a really bad cold.

We simply must start making our roads safer for Oklahomans to travel. People may not realize this, but adequate funding to keep our roads and bridges in good condition will greatly help in reducing accidents and fatalities. Things such as paved shoulders and median barriers are the types of road-design elements we need to implement more of across our state.