There are about 3 million car-related injuries a year‚ 2 million permanent injuries and 40‚000 deaths in the U.S. each year. The Department of Transportation’s statistics indicate that accidents are generally related to irresponsible driving behavior. About 40% of fatalities are related to drinking and driving‚ 30% to speeding and about 33% from a car going off the road. Seat belt use is only at about 68% nationally‚ despite it being a highly cost-effective means to prevent fatalities and serious
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Preventing Chemical Accidents Introduction to Process Hazard Analysis First Edition Process Safety Management Training from the NJ Work Environment Council EMBED PBrush This material was produced under grant SH-17813-08-60-F-34 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration‚ U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor‚ nor does mention of trade names‚ commercial products‚ or organizations imply endorsement by the U
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an instant‚ a car accident can change a person’s life forever. Each year‚ many unsuspecting drivers‚ passengers‚ and pedestrians are killed on the roads of the United States. The main question we ask ourselves is why? Are people killed because of high speed crashes? Did the airbags not deploy at the proper time? Were the roads in acceptable conditions? Unfortunately‚ we can not always determine the causes of all accidents‚ simply because we were not on the scene of the accident. There are many
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Accidents are common in big cities. We daily hear of road accident and read about them in newspapers. Such accidents happen often as the result of carelessness of the drivers and their negligence of the traffic rules. One evening my brother and I decided to see a film at Sangam Cinema in the main highway of Chennai. As we were going late for the show‚ we began walking faster along the crowded road. All of sudden there was a loud noise. I saw a man rolling on the ground. He was knocked down
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he peer at photo just on the TV stander‚ he never know there is a photo. The picture is he and Carteria with lovely smile on the park. A news attract his attention‚ it is a car accident happen on a few block a way from his home yesterday. “Oh no no no‚ not her” Peter say . “A 42 years old man die in the accident” he shut off the TV and say “thanks god it is not happen her” he feels so release‚ he take out photo album and look at it. It remind his good memory with Carteria. He has been
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watch him. At that moment I heard a horn coming from another car. I looked up and saw a green car in front of me that I was about to hit. There was no avoiding it. A lot of people say that when you’re involved in an accident or something similar‚ you sometimes see your life flash before your eyes. That didn’t happen for me. There was no time for that. Everything happened so fast. My truck rammed into the passenger side of the turning car. Soda
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Steering Wheel Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime‚ anywhere. ”According to the National Safety council‚ which stated that more that 2.5 million collisions. The most common type of car accidents it is also know that the accident rear end as incident of injury. Among the car accidents‚ the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Also‚ all the people are exposed to risk and actually every one of the has got car accidents at least once
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Experts state that the major causes of car accidents are driver distractions. Dangerous distractions that can lead to an accident include cell phones and other gadgets that drivers use as they drive. Cell phones‚ laptops‚ electric razors‚ etc. causes drivers to take their eyes off the road for seconds at a time with the potential to cause a serious‚ if not deadly‚ accident. In response to this‚ some states in the US have banned the use of hand-held cell phones while people are driving. The alternative
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head: THE CAR ACCIDENT Running head: THE CAR ACCIDENT The Car Accident Catrina S July 22‚ 2011 It was one of the most terrifying days of my life‚ the day of my car accident. Disappointment‚ disbelief‚ and fear filled my mind as I was lying on my side. I was sandwiched between the cold dirt and the hot metal of the car. The weight of the car was pressed down on the lower half of my body with monster force. It did not hurt‚ my body was numb. All I could feel was the hood of the car stamping
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Car Accident Horror‚ disbelief and fear filled my mind as I lay on my side‚ sandwiched between the cold‚ hard tar and the mangled k metal of the car. The weight of the car pressed down on the lower half of my body with monster force. It did not hurt‚ my body was numb. My lungs felt pinched shut and air would neither enter nor escape them. My mind was buzzing. What had just happened? In the distance‚ on that cursed road‚ I saw cars driving by completely unaware of what happened‚ how I felt. I
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