Last year, despite efforts to reduce the number of pedestrian deaths, there were high fatality rates in New York. City Limits, for example, reported that for the first 13 days of November, a pedestrian died every single day in the city as a result of an accident with a bus or car that was traveling too fast. In total, 18 people died before the end of November — one for each business day of the month.  Clearly, with so many pedestrians losing their lives, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero campaign did not achieve its goal of zero pedestrian fatalities. City Limits suggested that the

According to a survey done by the US Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization (NCVS), an average of 293,066 people (aged 12 and above) in the country are victims of rape and sexual assault each year. This means that one sexual assault occurs every 107 seconds. Nearly 6 out of 10 sexual assault/rape incidents are reported by victims to have occurred at a friend, relative, or neighbor’s home or in their own home. Additionally, a National Victim Center study reports that 1.3 women aged 18 and over, are forcibly raped every minute in the United States. This means that there are 78 rapes every hour,

Statistics show that repetitive strain injury (RSI), also known as work related upper limb disorders (WRULD), is increasing at an alarming rate in the workplace. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), approximately 1.8 million workers are affected by RSI per year. One government study puts the annual RSI cost between $17 billion and $20 billion. According to one survey, close to 60 percent of computer office workers across the nation suffer from acute wrist pain while working on the computer, and 51.2% state that their keyboards are placed way too high. However, the only problem is not ergonomics – 49.7% of employees

One of the biggest problems in the United States is drunk driving. Nearly 30 people die every year in an automobile accident that involved a driver drinking alcohol. That means that there is approximately one death every 48 minutes. According to the CDC, there were 9,967 deaths caused by driving crashes that involve alcohol in 2014, accounting for 31% (nearly one-third) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. Law enforcement officials arrested over 1.1 million drivers for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. That accounts for 1% of the 121 million self-reported alcohol-impaired driving episodes among the nation’s adults each year. Restitution