areas‚ unusually with only a "recommended" limit (130 km/h) for the Autobahn Road traffic safety refers to methods and measures for reducing the risk of a person using the road network being killed or seriously injured. The users of a road include pedestrians‚ cyclists‚ motorists‚ their passengers‚ and passengers of on-road public transport‚ mainly buses and trams. Best-practice road safety strategies focus upon the prevention of serious injury and death crashes in spite of human fallibility[1] (which
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as “The Boulevard of Death” or “The Boulevard of Broken Bones”‚ it runs northwest to southeast across almost an entire borough and it’s a deadly thoroughfare. From 1993 to 2000‚ 72 pedestrians were killed crossing Queens Boulevard‚ an average of 10 persons per year with countless injuries nearly all pedestrians >60 years of age. It’s 12 lanes wide packed with heavy automobile traffic up to 70 thousand cars traveling on it daily. The distance to cross the street is 225 feet‚ for an elderly
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have a reliable and redundant infrastructure for the traffic‚ to make sure that it works even during bad conditions. There are several different hazards which may have an impact on the road infrastructure such as for example natural catastrophes‚ accidents or failure of parts of the road network. Since the different infrastructure systems get more and intertwined in the society of today and the society becomes more vulnerable for catastrophes‚ these hazards might have effects on other infrastructure
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auto accidents themselves injure a person in the United States every 10 seconds‚ speeding drivers are the cause of nearly 30% of these collisions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found that speeding alone was a contributing factor in almost one-third of all fatal crashes last year. One thing that speeding does is reduce the time that a driver needs to avoid having a wreck. This increases the chances of crashing and the likelihood that the accident will
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longer term actions Over speed of vehicles entering the premises of Etihad Museum Site Area. Risk of vehicular accident which may result serious injury or damage to property or may result early death Safety speed limit must implement inside premises by displaying the appropriate speed for light vehicles and for buses/truck sand heavy equipment’s. Segregation of vehicular and pedestrian routes must in place Giving of training and awareness
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is the maximum speed at which a vehicle can travel in a certain area. Usually they are indicated by signs next to the road. As you can see from the graph below‚ speed limits are extremely important. If speed limits wouldn’t be there‚ a lot more accidents would resolve into death. Speed of the vehicle in miles/hour Percentage of chance of death 20 7 30 44 40 86 Those speed limits aren’t just chosen by people. Many things have to be considered while deciding
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In the novels‚ ‘The Giver’ and ‘The Pedestrian’‚ Lois Lowry and Ray Bradbury‚ both illustrate a future utopic world‚ we could come across‚ if we don’t embrace our individual characteristics and the ability to think for ourselves. In this worrying future‚ the Government‚ has full control of the citizens‚ in order to make a better world. The authors confront us with the theme of a Government‚ that implies strict rules and makes decisions for their citizens without them realizing‚ so that they all have
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The purpose of his book was to call attention to various elements that made cars more dangerous than necessary. The result was the government responded with a wide range of new auto mobile safety regulations. 3. Seat belts lower the risk and accidents due to speeding. So by lowering the risk of death or injury drivers think that it’s okay to speed and drive recklessly.
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backseat‚ flashy billboards‚ and the beautiful scenery can cause accidents‚ “text messaging requires visual‚ manual‚ and cognitive attention from the driver‚ it is by far the most alarming distraction” (Department of Transportation‚ n.d.‚ “What”). Driving requires the operator of the vehicle to have his eyes on the road at all times‚ because traffic conditions can change in a split second. If the driver is distracted‚ a fatal accident could occur without warning. Attention paid to texting means attention
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measures are to reduce the accidents occurring in the first place. There are two distinct kinds of gear‚ preventive gear such as light reflecting materials and protective gear such as helmets. Preventive gear is intended to warn others‚ presumably for the most part motorists. Protective gear is intended to reduce the effect of any accident‚ whether it is caused by another‚ the skater or some force of nature. Protective gear does a little‚ if anything‚ to prevent accidents but is presumed to reduce
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