I received a speeding ticket on Sunday April 22, 2018 at 1:31 pm while on my way home from Canada where I had spent a few days out of my school vacation week (April 15-21). I was pulled over on the I-90 E Interstate Highway for reportedly driving 85 in a 65-mile zone. I figured I was speeding but was completely unaware of the actual speed I was driving prior to getting pulled over. Prior to Sunday’s offense, I was never issued a speeding ticket and only did so moments after being switched out to drive by a friend who accompanied myself and sister on our vacation trip at the service station a few miles away from where I was pulled over by the state trooper. I am currently a Clinical PsyD. Student at the William James College in Newton MA, and
Impaired driving is a very significant problem within our society. Impaired driving is defined in Canada as operating a vehicle (including cars, trucks, boats, snowmobiles and off-road vehicles) while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. It is recognized as a crime under the Criminal Code of Canada. Despite a sizeable drop in the impaired driving rate since the mid-1980s, impaired driving is the leading cause of criminal death in Canada. It is a major issue that is taken very lenient but is far more dangerous than people actually consider it to truly be. Driving under the influence does not only put the person operating the vehicle in potential danger and harm, but also has the potential to do harm towards innocent others. With this being said, the punishments regarding the accused’s conviction of crimes related to impaired driving should be far stricter than the current punishments in order to stop impaired driving within our flawed society. This stated, these are my following reasons as to why I believe that the punishments of impaired driving should be stricter.
There is knocking at a door late at night, and there a policeman standing at the door with information that a family member was in an accident that involved a drunk driver. This is one of those things people hear and believe that it will not happen, but it happens every day. Every 40 minutes, someone in the U.S. is killed by a drunk driver and in 2008, in Montana, 40 percent of all traffic fatalities involved DUIs (“Drunk Driving” 1). Drunk Driving affects everyone and people in Montana should look at what other states do to find ways to make the laws tougher and more enforced.
According to Levinthal (2011), alcohol is called the hidden drug because an alcoholic does not need to find a drug dealer on the street; instead it is legally available and has no criminal sanctions attached to its use; alcoholism is therefore easily hidden from friends and family. Unfortunately, drunk driving is the leading cause of deaths on roadways, and in addition causes hundreds of boating accidents as well. Fortunately, with the legal drinking age set at twenty one and the reduction in the BAC level of intoxication set to 0.08, there have been positive results in minimizing alcohol related deaths annually.
The literature review on road bumps encompasses a wide array of enquiries on the development of speed bump systems that can respond instantaneously to traffic conditions. Speed bumps are raised sections of roadway designed to limit the speed of motor vehicles. They are four meters long, between 76 to 100 millimeters high, and can cover all or a portion of the width of a roadway. A speed bump works by transferring an upward force to a vehicle, and its occupants, as it traverses the bump. The force induces a front-to-back pitching acceleration in vehicles. The acceleration decreases with higher speeds due to absorption of the impact by the vehicle suspension.[1] Various researches have been done on speed bump covering the criteria or the guidelines for the geometrical bump designs, optimization for the designs, effectiveness of the bump, variation of the speed over bump, factors which influence bump designs, etc.
In 1990 the United States Supreme Court found that correctly ran sobriety checkpoints were constitutional, even though they do violate “the peoples” rights. A few states have made it illegal for said checkpoints to be ran, saying that it violated their own constitution. While the argument for drunk driving checkpoints is that, it only takes a short period of time to determine that a person is intoxicated or impaired, it still is infringing on citizens’ rights. A person who argues for that side would also be quick to point out it is “for the greater good”, which I totally agree with but still believe it is infringing on the rights set forth in the constitution.
In this year so far, there has been 40 people that have died in collisions where they were not buckled up, as well as 347 people over the last five years in Provincial Ontario alone (@citynews.). So this is becoming a growing problem. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more well known as the NHTSA has used many different ways of getting their message out about the dangers of not wearing a seat belt. The NHTSA has used all forms of social media, but the one of the most influential forms of getting their message out though has been their Public Service Announcements or PSA for short, on the television the NHTSA have a PSA called “Second Chance”. The Click it or Ticket PSA “Second Chance” was created to appeal to the driver’s
Reasons for drinking is different for everyone and everyone does it whether they 're legal or not, but as soon as you step behind that wheel after a few drinks you 're signing your death certificate, or worse, someone else’s. Alcohol-related traffic deaths in the US were 12,998 in 2007. This is more than three times as many American soldiers who died in combat in the first six years of the Iraq war-according to drugfreeworld.com. Forget for a minute the buzz and relaxed sensation you get by drinking and think about a bloody crash site filled with dead bodies, think about taking someones child away from their parents or your best friends body lying bloody on the road. Buzzed driving gets laughed off because people don 't believe its drunk driving,
My friend Lina has son a twelve-year-old boy named Bradley. He and his friend Chris were walking from a birthday party only a couple of blocks from Bradley’s home. As they crossed the street, Bradley heard a loud roaring sound coming very quickly towards them. The sound of the roar was a car that was swerving as it began to come faster towards them. The car lights were turned off, so they didn’t notice the car until it got really close to them. They tried to run as quickly as they could, but the car was much faster than them. Chris managed to get off the street, and as he looked back, they saw the car driving towards Bradley. Chris was taken to the hospital, and unfortunately was paralyzed from the neck and Bradley died two days later from the forceful impact of the vehicle that dragged him for one mile. All this was the result of drunk driving.
b. Traffic congestion is a condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queuing. The most common example is the physical use of roads by vehicles. When traffic demand is great enough, the interaction between vehicles slows the speed of the traffic stream, resulting in some congestion.(Wikipedia). As demand approaches the capacity of a road (or of the intersections along the road), extreme traffic congestion sets in. When vehicles are fully stopped for periods of time, this is colloquially known as a traffic jam or traffic snarl-up.
The automobile has impacted the world by faster traveling, also making it possible to go farther distances. In this society cars are used to get around but to some people, it’s a way to get around, but to some people it’s a way to express them. From loud engines to hybrids, cars mean a lot more to people than just a way to get around. It has become much more meaningful to people. It has become of a person and how they express themselves.
If you have ever watched or heard of NASCAR you would know that when there is a crash it is often huge and deadly, however, the plethora of safety features they use keeps the driver safe. I am not asking for that level of protection but I would like to have a car that is at least in good condition and runs well. It will be worth the cost to fix it if you want it to last longer, and it would not be that much for parts since it is a cheap car. I also know that when the rest of the family drives it they would enjoy having a nicely fixed up ride as opposed to a car that looks like a junker. Getting our car fixed should be imperative rather than optional.
...ing those in downtown areas. Arterial roads essentially serve longer through trips; also provides access to abutting commercial and residential land uses. Collector streets provide both land access and traffic circulation within commercial, residential and industrial areas. Urban roads are ranked between local streets and multilane suburban and rural highways in street transportation facilities. Downtown streets are signalized facilities that frequently functions like arterials during peak traffic hours. The difference is determined basically by street function, control conditions, and the character and intensity of roadside development. Multilane suburban and rural highways differ from urban roads in the following ways: roadside development is not as intense, density of traffic access points is not as high, and signalized intersections are more than 3.0 Km apart.
Many people have lost loved ones as a result of drunk driving. Alcohol related motor vehicle accidents are one of the main causes of death, especially with teenagers. After drinking alcohol, a person’s perception and judgement become distorted and they may feel overconfident and take chances they’d never take if sober. Alcohol affects the body by impairing vision, slowing down reaction time, and making the body feel more relaxed and drowsy. People think that they can be careful when they drive drunk and that they’ll make it home safely, however, consuming alcohol makes the task almost impossible. Although drunk driving is more common in the youth, drinking is dangerous for everyone, particularly if they aren’t completely educated on the risks.
Anyone that has grown up in California knows traffic is terrible. Traffic is a huge problem in different parts of the world. It’s a serious problem in the state of California. According to Merriam Webster, the definition of traffic is “all of the vehicles driving along a certain road or in a certain area”. The definition of a traffic jam is “a situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly.” The increase of traffic causes more accidents. More than 1.2 million people die in traffic accidents every year. As many as 50 million people are injured or disabled by traffic-related accidents per year. In my report I will cover the problem with traffic and how people can do their part to solve or reduce traffic.
Parental behavior about children physical movement is one of the significant reasons for reducing children outdoor activities. Parents fear about road traffic risk and danger of stranger do not let children to attend in the society, and they never have an experience for their trips to school alone until they grow up. According to Sustrans research (2001), child fatalities by cars are 100 times more than stranger danger. Lack of sufficient roadway for pedestrians which can divide the pedestrian path from car path is main reasons for parents to prevent their kids from doing outdoor actives alone. Children physical activity also depends on the traffic condition. Heurlin-Norinder (1996) research has shown the result of traffic rate on parents fear; parents who live in high rate of traffic neighborhood have more concern than parents who live in less traffic area. ‘‘A downward spiral of fear can be created in response to road safety fears in which reductions in play, cycling and walking activities among children and young people can diminish the general social ac...