Texting and Driving Adrianna Contreras Kaplan University CM220 Professor Thompson May 1‚ 2012 In the middle of the night‚ a police comes to the Johnsons door to tell them that an accident has occurred and that their teenage daughter is deceased and another teen is in critical care. The accident was caused by texting and driving. Now the Johnsons have to go the morgue and identify their daughter‚ this is an accident that could have been prevented. In the Treasure Valley‚ there have been
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Persuasive Speech: Agressive Driving Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that aggressive driving should be avoided. Introduction I.Attention Getter: Speeding‚ tailgating‚ giving the finger and outright violence. Each day Americans grow more and more likely to take out their personal frustrations on other drivers. It is called aggressive driving and it is on the incline. II. Definition: Driving is a curious combination of public and private acts. A car isolates a driver from
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Impaired Driving Essay May 16‚ 2012 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. Impaired driving is a crime in Canada and the one guilty of impaired driving can be convicted under the Criminal Code of Canada. If convicted‚ you can lose your license‚ be fined‚ or spend time in jail. To be convicted
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Drunk Driving Death “Every 53 minutes a life is lost in the United States because of drunk driving accidents; that equals to 27 people every day. On average‚ a drunk driver will drive 80 times under the influence before their first arrest” (“11 Facts About…” 1). Drunk driving is the second cause of car accidents in the US. Texting and driving takes the number one cause of accidents in the United States. Many people have died from drinking and driving. They could have called someone to take
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Texting and Driving According to GPS Systems 16‚000 drivers were killed by headset use between 2001 and 2007. Knowing that a headset is mostly hands free think of the millions of teens and adults who you see texting with one hand off the wheel and eyes off the road. How many more deaths a year do you think there are with that? While texting and driving in itself is a horrible thing our government has tried to make laws to protect people for other drivers texting while they are driving but they have
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Drugs and Driving Injuries‚ especially from motor vehicle collisions‚ are the leading cause of death for individuals under age 44. The presence of alcohol is the factor most frequently associated with fatalities in vehicles‚ drownings‚ falls‚ and fire (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ 1987). In the first report to Congress on traffic safety and alcohol (U.S. Department of Transportation‚ 1968)‚ it was concluded that more than 50 percent of fatal traffic collisions and 33 percent of
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Texting and driving Sitting on the highway in traffic and the cell phone goes off. Hearing the familiar text message ringtone a person starts to think‚ “Maybe it is my friend telling me about the update on the party tonight‚ or my mother‚ what if something is wrong?” It does not look like traffic is going to be moving anytime soon‚ and knowing that it would only take a minute‚ if that‚ to respond‚ they do. Before they know it‚ the car in front of them stops too fast and there in an accident. Texting
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distractions deadly. People distracted by technology are endangering themselves and others. Distracted driving causes more driver related accidents than any other reason. For example‚ reports show “recognition error‚ which included driver’s inattention‚ internal and external distractions‚ and inadequate surveillance‚ was the most (41%±2.2%) frequently assigned critical reasons” (Traffic). While there are many types of distractions for drivers‚ some are more dangerous than others. For instance‚ this
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influencing factors that are able to shape our attitudes and beliefs towards driving. The media‚ family‚ and peers are all major contributing factors that have positioned me to believe that drink driving and speeding is wrong and that you must always wear a seatbelt when driving in a car. The media‚ has proven to be one of the most prominent factors in the shapeing of attitudes and beliefs towards many things‚ including driving and our cautiousness on the roads. Campaigns are enforced to raise our
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Dangers of Elderly Citizens Driving Suddenly a sharp pain emerges in the ribs of a young student; but it is not only him that has been injured‚ but the majority of his class‚ a broken rib being the most minute injury. Teachers and other pedestrians concerned while a couple gets the license plate of the car that just plowed through a crowd of children. But on the other end; there is the driver of the car‚ who did not see that the light was ever red‚ who was on auto-pilot and still has not recognized
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