Distracted Drivers Alarmingly‚ every twenty four seconds there is a motor vehicle accident that occurs across America. These accidents occur due to unsafe actions and habitual behaviors displayed by drivers. The three main types of distractions are manual‚ visual‚ and cognitive distractions. Distracted driving is a growing problem in the United States. All distractions endanger driver‚ passenger‚ and by stander safety. Manual distraction involves the driver’s hands to come off the wheel. Some
Premium Automobile Distraction Driving
S00027026 IENG 030-11 Mr. Morgan Fall 2012 Topic: Drunk Driving Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to stop driving while they are drunk if they do so. Thesis Statement: There are more and more accidents happening as a result of drunk driving‚ and these drunk drivers should be severely punished. I. Introduction: Attention Step A. Attention Material: My friend Susan’s son a nine-year-old boy named Tom and his father were on their way back from a gathering at their friend’s house. As they
Premium Alcoholic beverage Drunk driving Ethanol
To persuade my audience that texting and driving is the worst form of reckless driving. Central Idea: Texting and driving is dangerous because it causes accidents and causes deaths. Introduction I. Imagine if you will‚ it is 9am and you are on your way to work. A. You get a text from a friend at work while you are driving down the road going 45 miles per hour. B. You begin to text back when you go across the median to oncoming traffic. C. You get into a head on collision with
Premium Traffic KILL The Pedestrian
The Dangers of Driving Under the Influence Did you know that more than 10‚839 people will die this year with one dying every 30 minutes?(Main) Just thinking about one person dying every 50 minutes is very eye opening! Now think about if you were that person under the influence‚ got in someones car‚ started driving and next thing she knows she see bright car lights and her life is changed. One should take more caution when thinking about drinking. Drinking is getting way out of hand for teens and
Premium Alcoholic beverage Alcohol law Driving under the influence
factors contributing to traffic crashes. NHTSA estimates that the annual economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes is $40.4 billion. In 2010‚ speeding was a contributing factor in 31 percent of all fatal crashes‚ and 32‚885 lives were lost in speeding-related crashes. This equates to 90 fatalities per day in the United States. Speed-related traffic fatalities in New Jersey were 556 in 2010. The highest percentage of speed-related fatalities is attributed to drivers under the age of 20. The
Premium Traffic law Road transport Criminal law
each year involving drivers using cell phones and texting.” (http://www.nsc.org) Innocent People could get hurt or killed because of drivers using cell phones. People can stop these unnecessary accidents by not using their cell phones while driving. Drivers’ use of cell phones while vehicles are in motion should be prohibited because it could be a hazardous distraction in addition they could get in an accident. The use of cell phone while driving is a hazardous distraction. Drivers making a phone call
Free Mobile phone Text messaging
the world today is people drinking and driving. When someone is under the influence of alcohol they really don’t know the right choices from the wrong ones. More times then not those people make the wrong choice to get behind the wheel of a car. Just because someone is drunk doesn’t mean its an automatic thing that they will crash but it does increase the chances by quite a bit. No matter what age you are‚ a new licensed driver being 16 to an elderly man being 80‚ this is always going to be bad and
Premium Driving under the influence Drinking culture Drunk driving
The Use of Cell Phones While Driving One of the most popular innovations in automotive travel in the past decade has nothing to do with the automobile itself‚ the people who drive them‚ or the roads over which they operate. Rather‚ it is the ability to carry on telephone conversations while driving. In today’s society‚ our technology is more advanced than ever before. Text messaging‚ like most modern technological devices‚ has its benefits and drawbacks. One of the most dangerous drawbacks is when
Premium Mobile phone Text messaging Automobile
Driving under the influence of alcohol has affected and devastated countless people’s lives. Driving under the influence is one of the most dangerous situations you can put yourself or someone else into. If you drink and drive‚ not only do you possibly put yourself at risk but your passengers‚ as well as other people on the roads too. “Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for teens‚ and roughly 1/3 of these accidents involve alcohol or another substance.”(DoSomething.org) These victims
Premium Drinking culture Driving under the influence Alcoholic beverage
Patty’s Charcoal Drive-In "Sixteen and college-bound"‚ the teen-aged girl in the poem Patty’s Charcoal Drive-In learns the challenges of having a first job: hard work for little pay. Her role is to serve‚ to accommodate customer’s needs by "presenting each tray as if it were a banquet." Then after working hard hopes to merely earn tips from loose change "flung carelessly as the stars." I can understand the challenges of hard work for little pay. I work for Starbucks Coffee Company as a shift
Premium Coffee Starbucks Coffee culture