Car Accident "A car is not the only thing that can be recalled by its maker." (Unknown) I used to be the kind of person who thought nothing could ever hurt me‚ until a normal morning turned into a disaster‚ which made me realize that life can be taken abruptly. My significant event is my car accident. After waving goodbye to my parents‚ I was off to school on a beautiful spring morning. It was a fifteen minute drive on gravel roads to get to my high school. My high school was a brick red
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FAILURE ANALYSIS Investigators in the Concorde accident undertook research to find incidents that involved tyres or landing gear on the Concorde since its entry into service. Archives from EADS‚ Air France‚ British Airways‚ BEA‚ AAIB‚ DGAC‚ CAA and Dunlop were consulted to establish a list of such incidents. The assembled list contained fifty-seven entries; all cases of tyre bursts or deflations. Thirty cases were for the Air France fleet and twenty-seven for British Airways. Of these events;
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roads is very poor and deplorable. The rate at road-accidents and fatality in the country is very high. Pressure on roads has been on increase and the number of vehicles is increasing by leaps and bounds. Lack of road-sense has further complicated the matters. Driving licenses are given on illegal gratifications to the authorities and traffic rules and regulations are thrown to the winds. Overloading is one of the major factors of road- accidents and deaths. The condition of the vehicles is hardly
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Road Accidents in Malaysia: Some Contributing Factors Malaysia aims to become a developed country by 2020. This aim is achievable due to its rapid development especially in its economic growth. With the current development in economy‚ the country continues to experience an increase in the population which has now stood to 27.7 million people (according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia‚ 2009). The population expansion has eventually increased the number of people who owned vehicles
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of Road Accidents The high socio-economic cost of the injuries and fatalities‚ occurring due to road accidents‚ and the need for effective policies for curbing road accidents make it imperative to study the causes of road accidents. The analysis of road accidents in terms of causal factors reveals that drivers’ fault is the single most important factor responsible for accidents‚ fatalities and injuries. Drivers’ fault accounted for 77.5 per cent (3‚85‚806 accidents) of total accidents; 72.0
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1. PROJECT. To Design an Accident Causation Model 2. SCOPE. The Accident Causation Model (or "Swiss Cheese Model") is a theoretical model that illustrates how accidents occur in organisations. The model focuses on both organisational hierarchy and human error. It postulates that the typical accident occurs because several (human) errors have occurred at all levels in the organisational hierarchy in a way that made such accident unavoidable. For example‚ decision makers may have made ill decisions
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Causes Of Road Accident • The first major cause of road accidents in Ghana is poor driving skills. • Drivers talking on mobile phones while driving have caused several road accidents • Gross indiscipline is the cause in most cases amongst Ghanaians. • Most accidents are caused by broken down vehicles on our roads. • It appears in Ghana there is a leeway for drivers to drive on worn/second hand tyres. • The unworthiness of some cars on our roads also invariably leads to road
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Dear John‚ Thank you for your letter‚ it was great to hear from you. I hope that you’ll manage your exams and make us proud. Remember‚ you can’t exaggerate because the stress will destroy you. So don’t overwork! There’s no change in my life‚ but I have to tell you about one accident I witnessed. You won’t believe! Two weeks ago I was a spectator of a car race in Andora. One of the participants were our Polish sportsman Robert Kubica (27)‚ and his partner Jakub Gerber (32). I was so excited
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Walker English Comp 1 January 31‚ 2013 Carelessness Causes Accidents Pulling up in our driveway from winning my first soccer game of the season‚ my mother and I jumped out of the car to go inside and celebrate the win. As we were walking to unlock the front door‚ we heard a screeching of tires across the hot pavement of a midsummer’s day. I turned my head to the scene of a fatal accident and screamed. When I witnessed this accident‚ a memory was created of the scene to remind myself of how reckless
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Evelyn Blackwood’s 2010 ethnography Falling into the Lesbi World is worthwhile read for any interested in gender and sexuality studies in Indonesia. It takes a complex look at the understandings of lesbi desire‚ tomboi gender expression‚ kinship loyalty‚ and the nuances of adherence and defiance to hegemonic sex/gender systems. Despite some limitations‚ Blackwood manages to illustrate an elaborate network clearly‚ displaying a valuable knowledge of the linguistic practices of the lesbi she studied
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