Traffic collisions is one of the most unpredictable, fatal, and devastating occurrences that can take place in a individuals life. It is still undetermined what the major causes may be for traffic accidents. Some critics acclaim, that it is the lack of safety awareness by drivers. Other people believe that new safety driving education courses should be implemented and required for new drivers. They suggest that it is a vital element that can help reduce the number of traffic accidents greatly
Respondent came before the Department by way of a Traffic Collision Report that was completed by Officer Severing #20845 of the California Highway Patrol on 07/12/2017. Officer indicates the respondent was driving a Dodge Grand Caravan on eastbound interstate 10, in the #1 lane and made unsafe turning movement to the left causing his vehicle to travel in the northeasterly directions. The respondent’s vehicle
part of our lives. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in the US, there was a 3.3% increase in the number of car accidents from 2011 to 2012. According to the Association of Safe International Road Travel, about 1.3 million road crashes occur each year worldwide, on average 3,287 deaths per day. Road traffic crashes are currently ranked as the 9th leading cause of death and if no action is taken, road traffic accidents are predicted to become ranked as the 5th
Speech Outline Speech Title: “Click It or Ticket” General Purpose: To persuade my audience on why wearing a seat belt remains important. Specific Purpose: After listening to my speech, my audience will be persuaded to always wear a seat belt in order to enhance their safety in the car. Central Idea: When you are driving or even riding in a vehicle, buckling your seat belt will decrease your chance of death or serious injury, if you get in a serious accident. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter:
their job is? During a shift police officers mostly enforce traffic laws, crime prevention, investigate accidents, and community relations. Have you ever been pulled over by a police officer where you were given a ticket? If you have that is one part of their job. Traffic enforcement is one of the most recognizable and universal police responsibilities. Marked police cars are easy to see and most Americans have been stopped for a traffic violation. Some of these violations are s... ... middle of
the exception of New Hampshire. Although seat belts are known to lock up and wrinkle your clothes, I believe that wearing your seat belt is beneficial because every fourteen seconds someone is injured in a traffic crash. Seat belts are not only known for holding you in place during a collision, but more importantly the are known to save the lives of the occupants in the vehicle. In 1949, an American car company known as Nash, offered the two-point seat belts in their vehicles, ...
Motor Vehicle Safety Motor accidents are one of the leading causes of unintentional injuries in the United States. In the year 2000 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated that around 41,000 people were killed in traffic accidents within the United States. This mortality rate has since dropped 25% from 2000 to 2009 (Rockett et al., 2012). There are many reasons for motor vehicle injuries, ranging from lack of seat belt use, elderly drivers, alcohol and young children
Every person who has gets behind the wheel of a motor vehicle will be involved in some sort of automobile collision at some point in his or her lifetime. Traffic accidents account for over twenty thousand deaths each year and more than ten times as many injuries. There are a number of factors that contribute to these types of collisions, however, new and evolving laws can account for a large portion of successful preventable measures. In order for laws to be changed or added for the purpose of safer
(Seat Belts: Get) Seatbelts are made and designed for saving lives while a person is operating an automobile. It has been proven time after time, that a person’s life could be saved by simply putting a seatbelt on. “According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 15,000 lives are saved each year in the United States because drivers and passengers were wearing their seatbelts when they were in accidents.” The government can try to persuade Americans to wear their seatbelts
seconds someone is injured in an automobile accident if they are not buckled up, or that every 13 minutes someone is killed in a crash. Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety related behavior. According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration seatbelts saved nearly 12,000 lives in the United States in the year 2000. The NHTSA estimates that more than 9,000 U.S. car accident fatalities in 2000 would have been avoided if the victims
young adults. (Centers for Disease Control {CDC}, "Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among High School Students--United States, 1990," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report {MMWR}, 11/91, p. 776). · The total cost of alcohol use by youth--including traffic crashes, violent crime, burns, drowning, suicide attempts, fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol poisoning and treatment--is more than $58 billion per year. (DT Levy, K Stewart, et al "Costs of Underage Drinking" {report prepared for the US Department
When it comes to school transportation the community believes that is the safest way for their children to get to school, but what everyone does not realize is that lately there have been many school bus crashes where several students have been severely injured and even some have lost their lives because almost all school buses do not have seat belts. The question is how well equipped is the bus and is it safe enough for children to ride? And how do we solve this problem to cut deaths, avoid children
What is the number one cause of teenage deaths in the United States? In this country a teenager dies due to alcohol related car accidents every twenty-two seconds. Drunk driving accidents are the number one killer of adolescents (Teenagers and peer pressures. (n.d.). Retrieved November 1, 2013, from). Mixing drinking while driving can be deadly. Teenage drunk driving accidents not only affect the person drinking while driving, but it also can kill or harm others (Alcohol problems and solutions
Introduction In the book “Death's Acre”, By Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson they tell readers how they got to where they are today in their careers and how Dr. Bill Bass became famous for the well known “Body Farm” at the University of Tennessee. In “Deaths Acre” Bass invites people across the world who are reading to go behind the gates of the body farm where he revolutionized forensic anthropology. Bass takes us on a journey on how he went from not knowing if this is what he wanted to do for a living
Easter 1999: The Day I Almost Lost Everything The vibrant sun was shining its warmth upon the green, wet grass. There were puddles of water everywhere due to the past night’s rainfall. I was thirteen years old, short, and chubby at the time, with strawberry-blond hair and blue eyes. I was wearing a denim skirt and a blue t-shirt, which had a cute little bow at the top. My mom, with her curly red hair, blue eyes, and a constant smile that always lit up a room, came into my bedroom, which was
“Where u goin n need a ride?”, Pablo, a forty five year old, male, uber driver, messages me. “Sure, meet me at the corner of detroit and wagar, please”. I could immediately tell which car was his, as I could hear his fast-beat latino music blasting down the road. As I begin to open the door, it hits me. The cancer causing, teeth staining, lung tarring, disgusting smell of Pablo’s lit cigarette sitting in the ash tray. Struggling to breathe, I politely tell him my destination to my friend Derek’s
possible to make the egg survive however, by encasing it in something. You can compare the egg to a human in a car. A car crash can be deadly however the car that is around acts like the objects you would encase an egg in. In a car crash, or in most collisions, there is a primary and a secondary impact. The primary impact in a car crash would be the car deforming and being destroyed due crashing into something. The secondary impact is the contents in the car moving, in this case, quite violently. In many
huge impact on the damage it can cause swell as its safety. Head on collisions are known to be the most damaging collision are they take up over 59% of all moralities, as the energy between the two cars are directly centred causing a direct impact with the greatest combine momentum. Cars are made to withstand head on collisions but, many head on head crash tests using the Escalade and the Smart Car revealed that if this collision were to happen on the road, there is a 88% chance that all passengers
A motor vehicle accident (MVA) is any crash occurring on a road between one or more motor vehicles, including cars, motorbikes, scooters, trucks, buses, or pedestrians on public roads (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1998). Motor vehicle accidents are a major health issue in Australia, being one of the leading causes of fatality and injury (Donovan, Fielder, Ouschan, & Ewing, 2011). While the number of accidents has significantly decreased over the years, MVAs are still a major issue
There are plenty of on this earth who are egocentric. They feel that as if every decision they make is important and feel as if they are more important than everyone else. Flannery O 'Connor explores this type of mindset in her short story A Good Man is Hard to Find. The story focuses on a family of six who are going on a trip from Georgia to Tennessee after the Grandmother reads an article about a serial killer heading to Florida. After stopping to eat, the Grandmother convinces her son Bailey to