Underage Driving and Road Safety Many lives are shattered by underage drivers going for a joyride in the vehicles of their parents or older relatives. We are aware of many unlicensed drivers going for the short drive – but often overlook the nature of the risks and the consequences to these youngsters. Parents are urged to familiarize themselves with the risks associated with underage driving. The facts about underage driving: Teen drivers aged 16-19 years are four times more likely than older
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When it comes to driving on the road many people do not ever think it could be their last time‚ driving on the road is a lot scarier then you really think. In 2014‚ 9‚967 people were killed in an alcoholic related accident in the United states making it one third of all traffic related deaths‚ say CDC.gov. Many people these days are finding it more acceptable to drive while under the influence‚ and those people are usually the ones who cause the accidents and sometimes deaths. Somewhere there is
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teen drivers being killed in car accidents‚ forty five percent of the time there is a passenger in the car. Statistics show that 16 and 17-year-old driver death rates increase with each additional passenger. Speeding is a major factor in teenagers driving. Of all injured teenagers in car accidents one third of them were caused by speeding. When teenagers stay up late there is more of a chance for them to get in a car accident due to drowsiness. Single vehicle crashes are most popular in the teenager’s
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forever altered my perspective on certain situations. Death is a part of life; we live‚ and we die. However I strongly believe if we make better choices‚ our lives can be prolonged. As I research how every day in America‚ 27 people die in an impaired driving fatality every 53 minutes it brings me back to the time I lost my role model. My cousin Heath’s poor actions not only cost him to lose his life‚ but others lives were lost to. At the time‚ I never grasped how many people drink and drove. I had always
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Is cell phone use and driving becoming worse then it was? Do teenagers and young adults have more of an urge to text/use their phones and drive than adults do? And why is it so important for teens to use their phones and drive when there are so many different things and possibilities that could go wrong and that could cause consequences and could take a life or many lives? So what is more important: that text or snapchat or somebody’s life? Distracted driving among teenagers has become an immense
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Defensive driving courses should not actually be taken lightly by drivers. It is a life saving training that should be taken seriously. Many have lost their lives on the roads due to fatal road accidents and these numbers are likely to rise if defensive driving training is not taken seriously. Most road carnages are actually situations that could be prevented if good techniques are applied to tackle them. Defensive driving simply means driving to save a life or lives. It can also mean driving to save
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Driving under the influence‚ driving while intoxicated‚ drunken driving‚ drunk driving‚ drink driving‚ operating under the influence‚ drinking and driving‚ or impaired driving is the act of driving a motor vehicle with blood levels of alcohol in excess of a legal limit . Similar regulations cover driving or operating certain types of machinery while affected by drinking alcohol or taking other drugs‚ including‚ but not limited to prescription drugs. This is a criminal offense in most countries.
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Drinking and driving Almost every day 30 people in the U.S die because of drunk driving. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. Driving under the influence of alcohol was associated with age in 2010‚ the rate was highest among people aged 21 to 25 (23.4 percent). An estimated 5.8 percent of 16 or 17 year olds and 15.1 percent of 18 to 20 year olds reported driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year. Beyond age 25‚ these rates showed a general decline with increasing age. One
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research topic is on distracted driving and how Max Weber would view this issue from a symbolic interactionist perspective. My research question is: who is more likely to be a distracted driver? Fortunately‚ I have researched this topic last year in another class. I believe that distracted driving is a major problem in the United States and there should be more laws that prohibit distracted driving. I am interested in researching who is more likely to drink or text while driving. My hypothesis is the
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the biggest problems is the self-driving car thoughts which the programmers have a big part in. So imagine yourself on the highway in your self driving car and there is a truck that carries long poles and you are surrounded on all sides my other vehicles and all of a sudden a very heavy pole falls off of the truck. If you were driving you would just react‚ but a self driving car would have been programmed to think about it a certain way. So what would a self driving car do if there was a pickup truck
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