Statistics Paper Driving is a very dangerous and often hazardous thing to do. This is especially true for people ages fifteen to nineteen. There are so many crashes each year for teen drivers that it’s a miracle anyone makes it past twenty years old unharmed. In 2009 alone three hundred and fifty teens were treated for a car related accident. Teen car crashes are preventable. Often times teens drink before they drive or while they drive which makes the vehicle
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Sahar M. Sabbour‚ Jehan M. IbrahimDriving behavior‚ driver style and road traffic 1 Driving behavior‚ driver style and road traffic accidents among young medical groups Sahar M. Sabbour‚ Jehan M. Ibrahim Department of Community‚ Environmental and Occupational Medicine‚ Faculty of Medicine‚ Ain Shams University Abstract Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are increasingly being recognized as a growing public health problem. In Egypt‚ RTAs constitute 45% of all injury mortalities
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Real Experience for Real Teen Drivers Real Experience for Real Teen Drivers Young drivers lack experience in driving situations that will occur outside of the mandatory‚ cookie cutter training they complete during the time of holding their learners driving licenses. The lack of inexperience plays a major role in teen car accident fatalities and injuries. Whitelegg (1987) has shown “The United States alone is in running of about 50‚000 deaths a year from teen-driving fatalities. In terms of
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A SURVEY OF RISK OF ACCIDENTS IN MALAYSIA Nurulhuda.J1‚ Ho.J.S2‚ Jamilah.M.M.3 Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) Lot 125-135‚ Jalan TKS1‚ Taman Kajang Sentral‚ 43300 Kajang‚ Selangor‚MALAYSIA ABSTRACT Background: Traffic accidents rank fifth among the leading cause of deaths in Malaysia. The country is burdened with more than ten billion ringgit of losses due to traffic accidents every year. Despite implementation of various intervention measures over the years‚ the number
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Technology has definitely improved our lives; however it has certainly made our lives harder. Technology has made our lives more convenient‚ for example people can now check their mail online. On the other hand technology has made our lives restricted to; like those days when you have nothing to do so you sit in front of the computer‚ yet there is a vast world to explore behind the front door. Personally I think technology has not improved our lives as much as it has decreased our life quality; because
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Road Trauma; two little words‚ that pack an almighty punch into the lives and families of those affected by vehicle accidents. A definition by the Australian Academy of Science: “The word ‘trauma’ is especially appropriate to describe the injuries inflicted by road crashes. The medical profession uses it for any bodily injury or wound‚ but more literally it means ‘a powerful shock that may have long-lasting effects’ – an apt description for the sudden violence of a road crash”. (NOVA: Australian
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One of the more interesting aspects of stolen property is vehicle theft. What sets this crime apart from other stolen property is what I call the “mobility doctrine”. Meaning‚ vehicles have the inherent ability to be easily relocated from one location to another (Karmen‚ 2015). This creates a special dynamic; because the location a vehicle is left in can have a significant impact on it susceptibility to being stolen (Karmen‚ 2015). Couple this dynamic and mobility doctrine with the fact that
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Numerical Analysis of Auto-ignition of Ethanol Vaibhav Kumar Sahu1‚ Shrikrishna Deshpande1‚ Vasudevan Raghavan1‚* 1Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras‚ Chennai 600036‚ INDIA. Received 28 June 2011; accepted 5 August 2011‚ available online 24 August 2011 1. Introduction Ethanol is the most effective bio-fuel. Its easier production from agricultural feed-stocks‚ sugar cane and Fischer-Tropsch method makes it dominant among other bio-derived
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This was a study about how the questions leading an investigation can change the way a witness explains what they saw‚ the witness’ memory of the events can be changed or supplemented. For the study they did two experiments‚ the first experiment they gathered 45 American students‚ the experiment was conducted in a laboratory which had five conditions‚ each participant only experienced one of the conditions. The first experiment consisted of 7 films of tragic accidents which were presented
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Should We Raise The Driving Age To 18? Imagine yourself as a sixteen year-old. You just got your driver’s license‚ and are going to go cruising with your friends to celebrate. However‚ at about ten o’clock‚ your attention isn’t on the road‚ and you crash into another vehicle. Two of your friends die on scene‚ and your other friend is seriously injured. For thousands of teens each year‚ this is a reality. Sixteen year-old drivers are three times more likely to crash than seventeen year old’s
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