irrational driving. The disregard for safe driving has been a predicament to Queensland for years. For many years? police have relied heavily on speed cameras‚ breathe testing and heavy fines as a deterrent against unlawful drivers. Over the years fatality rates have increased‚ so Queensland Transport has composed a series of safe driving campaigns. On many occasions the transport department informs and advises the public about the importance of responsible driving. They propagate safe driving through
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Meghan October 31‚ 2011 Argument Essay Are cell phones dangerous? It is a known fact that driving requires a great amount of concentration‚ judgment and precision. Impairment of any of these abilities can put you in great danger. When you use a cell phone‚ your concentration is greatly shifted from road to the cell phone. While dialing or receiving a call‚ you are required to look into your cell phone rather than on the road. A lot can happen within a split second. You may not notice a
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Reckless Driving In My Neighborhood Nancy S. Young COMM105 Gayla Nelson March 13‚ 2006 Reckless Driving in My Neighborhood Our neighborhood is a place where we should be comfortable letting our children play‚ without having to worry about them getting hit by a reckless driver. If our children are in their on yard‚ there is still a chance for a speedy driver to loose control and hit one of them. On the street that I live on there is a great deal of children‚ of all ages‚ that
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Raising the Driving Age to 18 In the world today one of the most exciting parts of growing up is getting your driver’s license. Everyone counts on getting their sweet 16 car and license‚ but is that really the important part? Well yes as all teenagers would say. Even though it comes to losing their life because of inexperience‚ and immaturity on the road. There are lots of reasons why the driving age should be raised. ”All 50 states prohibit 16-year-olds from drinking alcohol‚ buying cigarettes
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Texting while driving can also increase the likelihood of running over and killing pedestrians‚ a 2009 study by the same team found. That research‚ which involved 21 teens and a driving simulator‚ found that texting while driving or even fiddling with music players while driving increased "lane position deviation" and rapid changes in speedAlthough 71 percent of parents with teenagers aged 12 to 17 years old say they know how to and do text‚ kids still perceive their elders as being out of the texting
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Carelessness Driving a genuine car was my initial dream when I was a young child because I really love speed and sports car. Eventually‚ with a lot of efforts‚ my dream comes true and the day I got my driver license was one of the happiest days in my life. Hence‚ I can drive a car and go to everywhere I want‚ but it also reminds me of the first day I sat behind the wheel. That day was a cool‚ breezy Sunday with a mild temperature on the morning of February 20‚ 2011. It was the first exciting driving-lesson
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As many people know the legal driving age is sixteen years of age‚ but what if it was raised to eighteen. That is what I believe should happen. Though many teenagers would not agree with me I think it would be much safer for others and themselves. When you turn eighteen you are more responsible .You can vote and be drafted into the army. If people were more responsible then maybe there would be fewer crashes and deaths. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety‚ In 2003‚ 3‚657 teenagers
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Joshua Harrison Mrs. Gambill ENG 113 07‚ November 2010 Truck Driving: How Do You Do It? How many of us can drive a truck? Most people wouldn’t know where to start. All they see is a huge chunk of metal with wheels and can’t fathom driving it. Using this guide will give a crash course (no pun intended) in truck driving and what it’s like on the road with these monsters. It also may help one understand the world of the truck driver and give them a new found respect for them. One of the
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TEXTING AND DRIVING 1 Texting and Driving Hector Diaz DeVry University TEXTING AND DRIVING 2 Texting and Driving The U.S. Department of Transportation launched its firstever national advertising campaign last week‚ featuring a 30second PSA going viral now that depicts a fatal side collision in which three young Americans are in a car‚ and the driver is killed after she runs a stop sign and fails to see the truck coming from the
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English 1101 October 16‚ 2013 Is There a Solution to the Dangers of Distracted Driving? Recently “Texas college student Chance Bothe’s last words prior to driving his truck off a cliff were in the form of a text message: “I need to quit texting‚ because I could die in a car accident.” He miraculously survived‚ but Bothe’s story has become an ironic example of the dangers of texting while driving” (Zafar). Distracted driving has become a worldwide problem that is ending/injuring the lives of hundreds
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