is a factor in 31 percent of all fatal crashes‚ killing an average of 1‚000 Americans every month‚ according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The need for speed limits has grown as well to help decrease the amount of accidents on our highways and streets. It is proven though studies that the drivers are better equipped to stop on demand when driving the speed limit. For example‚ at 20 mph it takes 46 feet to come to a stop. At 30 mph the stopping distance nearly doubles
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“Time for a Change‚” researcher Alan M. Tercero claims‚ “As many as 70 percent of those messages are being sent by people driving cars” (Automotive Review Council 29). An insurance accident investigator‚ Barry G. Hulicki‚ says that drivers using cell phones were involved in 22 percent of the fatal automobile accidents that occurred in 2011. Hulicki also cites law-enforcement and traffic-safety personnel as predicting that this percentage could rise as much as two percent per year
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driver’s forgetfulness of simple laws. US citizens should have to take a driving test every year because most American deaths/ injuries are cause by irresponsible drivers‚ and a test would help people remember and follow laws more closely. Car accidents can be caused by many factors‚ but one is overlooking driving regulations. America’s death. Injury rate by irresponsible drivers is higher than the rate of strokes‚ which are very common. Wrecks can be avoided with a driving test every year‚ and
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Auto accidents are very dangerous and can cause damage to the brain. Theresa suffered a head injury due to a car accident. She had damage to her right temporal lobe. Theresa cannot recognize her mother’s face‚ but she can accurately recall many of her mother’s distinctive facial features. Theresa has a type of associative agnosia. Theresa was not born with it so‚ she remembers what her mother looks like but cannot recognize her face. The inability to recognize familiar object presented visually
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video called “Don’t text while driving” is also a campaign started by AT&T in 2010 “It can wait”. Everyday people are killed in car accidents. Motor vehicles are responsible for the lives of many innocent drivers and passengers on the road. A common reason responsible for these accidents involve texting while driving. Texting and driving projects horrific accidents whose consequences can be fatal and life changing. AT&T supports drivers to not text and drive on the road through their “Don’t text
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For most commuters‚ driving had become a daily occurrence. According to the American Safety Council‚ approximately fifty-six percent of men and forty four percent of women report of having road rage on a daily basis (Safemotorist.com). Road Rage is defined as anger and aggressive behavior by a driver who is upset by how another person is driving (Merriam-Webster). Most of the time‚ it is easy to spot out these aggressive drivers by their driving characteristics‚ but when it comes to the road‚ these
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There is not anything so important someone is not telling me nor I need to tell someone that’s worth getting in trouble over and losing money. A fine may be the least of your worries if you are careless enough to text and it results into traffic accidents. More and more people are having wrecks; from fender benders to devastating crashes caused
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(“Because”). Some teenage drivers think that only texting is a distraction and talking on the phone isn’t. Those teenagers are sorely mistaken because according to The AAA Guide to Teen Driver Safety‚ “Talking on a cell phone can double the chance for an accident.” While teenagers may have their eyes on the road while talking on a phone‚ they do not however have their hands on the
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67-year-old Morro Bay resident failed to come to a stop at a stop sign. This failure to stop resulted in the three car accident Monday afternoon according to reports‚ sending two people to the hospital and one person pronounced dead. (http://caraccidentlawsuits.blogspot.com/2008/01/one-person-dead-in-car-accident-due-to.html) Now ask yourself a question‚ could this tragic accident have been provented if this man had stopped at this stop sign? The answer is YES! The lives of the two injured people
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and red light running will be eliminated. COP road traffic speed measurement for the purpose of enforcement? Yes‚ they’ve lost. Car will not accelerate again‚ so why send a police officer to write speeding tickets‚ Yes‚ probably still would be no accident once in a while‚ but they will be fewer and farther between. This means you can have a minimum contingent police officer assigned to traffic duties‚ free up more
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