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As a bowman it's normal to be prone to accidents as you can easily get in the way of a pole.

As a bowman it is normal to be prone to accidents as you can easily get in the way of the pole. But usually it comes down on you vertically so you'll get hit by about 50 kilograms. This time it hit me from a horizontal direction with a force of about three tons.

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.

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.

You see far fewer accidents and accidental shootings of civilians with the private security than you do with the regular military,

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.

This is not an unusual occurrence. We've had accidents in that area before. It does happen.

This is really a safety project because we've seen a high volume of accidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists. It's clear to the department that adding the median will help improve safety.

This is pretty serious stuff This is the kind of stuff that leads to major accidents,

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,

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.

The report is a celebration of our success and outlines our continuous commitment to eliminate workplace accidents.

They?re going to look into some type of upgrade in signage. When you look at 91 accidents in such a short space of time, it is a concern.

There was a lot of traffic and a couple of accidents on the freeway. I have never seen so much traffic. I thought Atlanta traffic was bad. It got so tiring, I didn't want to drive anymore. I just wanted to relax.

At Freudenberg-NOK, we believe that all accidents are preventable, and therefore, unacceptable. Regardless of a company's level of profitability, safety is the one thing that can never be compromised.

As much as we hate it, I'm afraid we're going to see some accidents with civilians stepping on a mine.

Accidents on or right next to airport property are not all that common.

Accidents happen at night. They come around the curve and flip it, and they wind up in my driveway or across the street.

Accidents can happen. The department holds individuals accountable for any violation of our rules and procedures.

It was a very difficult weather scenario that came in. Several accidents were occurring and at that point we decided to err on the side of safety.

It's bad enough that just natural fires or accidents or things that happen without anything intentional happening. In this case, there was one mobile home in the area that we made sure was secure and safe, but you know, it endangers our personnel. They're out there in a wildfire situation, and the winds change.

It is unfortunate to hear when accidents happen but at the same time you recognize it is part of the business.

It's a dramatic increase in accidents. Certainly something has changed and people have a right to ask, what the heck's going on?

It really wasn't (enough), the cost of injury and the cost of accidents have increased so much that those numbers are antiquated. I've seen numerous cases where someone gets in an accident and their $5,000 insurance is not enough and they owe a large additional amount.

It ranges from property damage accidents to some personal injury accidents.

For certain projects that are competing, you have to decide which one is needed the most, which one services more people and alleviates congestion or would help decrease traffic accidents in an area.

the number of truly serious accidents is not as high as people imagine.

The number of accidents on that road is very low, but anytime you have a bicycle in 50 mile-per-hour traffic, it's a dangerous situation,

It's not the first thing investors look at, but safety plays a role. Few accidents indicate an efficient railroad.

It's an opportunity for visitors themselves to take part in the effort to reduce accidents.

It's sad that, when we have so many incidents of deliberate violence, that we should have such accidents happen as well, with so many casualties,

Data shows there have been a high number of pedestrian accidents in this area the King Street corridor.

Considering the country's current rampant industrial accidents, the penalty is still moderate. Leniency is leading to a lax attitude in work safety.

Even when the cops come to the accidents they say 'not again.' They know about it; everybody knows about it.

I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.

It was a dream, ... There's a sense that even when the movie is scripted, a lot of the best things that happen are accidents. It's an environment set up where the accidents can flow.

On average, for every 100 accidents, 36 people will claim to be injured. In Chelsea, for every 100 accidents, 62 people claim to be injured.

Every weekend there's a significant accident. There are bad accidents out here.

The last couple of accidents there (on Durango at Route 160), people ran stop signs. I find it hard to believe people aren't seeing those signs.

Initially the partner is at increased risk from heart attack, suicide, and accidents. I am shocked my wife is sick and I stop paying attention when driving. And there is an increase in infections.

Improved driver experience, which has resulted in a decrease in accidents and fewer losses for our company, is the main reason for the rate decrease. We're glad we can provide our policyholders with more savings, and we hope to attract new customers with our lower rates.

If you post speed limit signs lower than people perceive as reasonable and prudent, they ignore them and then you have more accidents.

If you look at the number of accidents out there you can always find something that could have been done to prevent it.

If you live in an area where they have a high rate of car theft or accidents or traffic.

In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.

In terms of the rates of injury, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are regions of the world where road traffic accidents are taking many, many lives, particularly in the younger age groups.

By logging on to our website and learning some basic first aid we can all help reduce the number of people killed by accidents and cut the number of flowers we see at the roadside.

Children in the dark cause accidents, accidents in the dark cause children.

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.

Because every winter is different, it's difficult to estimate how much of an increase in accidents there are. But this time of year, the number of accidents are considerably up.

Home runs just come from accidents by me,

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245-

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

I came to photography by accident.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

Don't learn safety by accident.

I became a children's author by accident.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Accident is veiled necessity.

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

There are no accidents in Nature,

Omissions are not accidents.

It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.

The majority of officers are going to be handling traffic accidents on days like this.

These are not accidents. If they're gonna do that, I want their pink slip.

These (kinds of) accidents are more about of lack of experience than anything else.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

The guardrail we are installing now will prevent these types of crossover accidents.

You want the traffic to thin out. You don't want it bumper to bumper. Then you have multi-vehicle accidents.

You've always got to be on top of your game when you're out there hunting. Some of the more common accidents we see are the victim out of sight of the shooter. One hunter swinging out of his zone of fire and shooting possibly his hunting partner.

The goal of (the safety stand down) was to try to prevent accidents like this. The bottom line is that we're doing everything we can to make sure things like this don't happen.

The global cost of road accidents in developing and emerging nations is at least $100 billion a year. This is more than twice the total aid received from all bilateral and multilateral sources.

The drop in snowmobile-related deaths is welcome news, but there's a lot of careless behavior that's causing too many unnecessary deaths and accidents.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.

The medical evidence was overwhelming that this kind of injury could only be inflicted by a deliberate, intentional act. Accidents described by Steen just don?t account for what happened to the baby.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

The laws are in place, the men understand all the laws, but freak accidents happen.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.