1.0 Road Safety in Fiji “Safety First” is “Safety Always” (Charles M. Hayes). Road incidents are a major problem in every society. Many lives are taken due to careless driving or misuse of public roads. Road incidents‚ also known as traffic collision‚ traffic accidents‚ motor vehicle collision‚ road traffic collision‚ wreck (USA) and car crash (Australia)‚ can be defined as an unexpected and undesirable event ‚ that occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle‚ pedestrian and other stationary
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a literature review of road traffic accidents and casualties in Bangladesh and comparisons with developing-developed countries worldwide. The review identifies and reports on‚ the findings from studies carried out in this area and worldwide. A discussion is provided on the importance of data considerations‚ particularly with respect to discrepancies that are existed in casualty data from different sources. Everyday thousand of people are killed and injured on our roads worldwide. Men‚ women or
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Essay on Road Accidents !! Lack of road-sense has further complicated the matters. Driving licenses are given on illegal gratifications to the authorities and traffic rules and regulations are thrown to the winds. Overloading is one of the major factors of road- accidents and deaths. The condition of the vehicles is hardly found road-worthy. The unmanned railway level-crossings further add to the chaos and confusion. The multiplicity of authorities and utter lack of coordination among them is another
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http://www.irphouse.com/ijcer.htm Analysis of Road Accidents on National Highway-5: An Indian Scenario N.V. Subba Rao1‚ K. Durga Rani2 and S. Rama Krishna Rao3 2 Regional Transport Authority‚ Hyderabad‚ India Associate Professor‚ Civil Engineering Dept.‚ Andhra University‚ India 3 Professor‚ Civil Engineering Dept.‚ Andhra University‚ India Abstract 1 Road accidents are a serious global problem with more than one life lost every minute. Globally road accidents are one of the leading causes of
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The Silk Road opened many doors for the spreading of ideas‚ goods and culture. Through the Silk Road many cultures were able to advance through new ideas from their partnered civilizations. These new ideas helped the civilizations of the classical period prosper for long periods of time. Goods were traded along the Silk Road from all over the world. In doc. 1 it shows that silk spread from China to Rome. In doc. 4 the necklace was made of pearls possibly from India and was traded to China from
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Silk Road was a merchants’ heaven and a consumers’ dream. A place wherecultural diffusion was a natural occurrence and different rich cultures could both spread and blend with freedom and prosperity. This global marketplace was took hundreds of years tostart and played a major factor our cultural past. Due to the combination of people‚ products‚ideas‚ and modes of transit‚ the first global marketplace was able to widely spread differentcultural ideas‚ beliefs‚ and lifestyles across Europe and Asia
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Silk Road and the Internet Inside every working anarchy there’s an Old Boy Network. The internet is a great and popular invention that has changed‚ developed and improved today’s society. Yo-Yo Ma‚ once described the famous historical Silk Road as the ‘Internet of Antiquity’ meaning‚ the ancient internet‚ how and why would Yo-Yo Ma come to such a theory‚ the Silk Road and the internet may not have existed during the same period of time but there are similarities and difference to prove Yo-Yo Ma’s
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Exchanges on the Silk Roads After the fall of the Mauryas‚ the Kushan kingdom became the main political force in northern India. They were located across the main trade routes‚ and the Kushans prospered on the trade that was happening in that area. That area of trade and exchange was known as the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a trade route located between the Roman Empire and China‚ which also had a section that passed through the mountains northwest of India. From that area‚ goods where shipped
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The Silk road was a major trade route that brought cultural diffusion throughout Asia and Europe. Merchants and traders would travel the dangerous route for miles and miles. The route had a big impact on many societies. Objects such as silk and silver were traded on this route. The silk road brought the east and west together. It started at China’s capital Xian and stretched to Antioch in Damascus (“The Silk Road Bridges” 1). It also lead to many parts around the Middle East. It was about 4‚000
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Essay Improvement of the Road safety A car accident is part of a list of problems on the road. Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime‚ anywhere‚ and even with those who are careful. This essay will deal with the road safety problem. I will discuss about main causes of the car accidents‚ and possible solutions for this problem. Now let’s look at the problem more closely. Every year the number of car accidents increase‚ due to increasing the number of cars on the road. (Preston‚ 2007) The main
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