Four Athletes Receive First-Team Academic Honors. 1  May 26, 2005 - The menâs and womenâs at-large ESPN The Magazine academic all-district teams, as selected by members of CoSIDA, were released today and four Truman athletes earned first-team honors. On the womenâs side, Diana Betsworth, Sarah Dance and Abby Souders earned the honor, while on the menâs side, Steve Jones was a first-team pick.
Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44. Road traffic crashes rank as the 9th leading cause of death and account for 2.2% of all deaths globally.
Car accidents are responsible for more deaths each day than any wild beast or natural catastrophe. Car accidents kill more people than wars do. More people have died in car accidents SO FAR in 2015 than the number of US Soldiers killed in action in Vietnam (58,220 fatal casualties).