Some states have now made it illegal to drive while using a hand-held cell phone. Encouraging this law could prevent tragic accidents from occurring. Unfortunately‚ many are guilty of using a device while driving causing loss of control. Often‚ majority of accidents are caused by the distraction of the device itself. Hopefully‚ enforcing this law could drastically decrease the amount of crashes due to the use of devices from behind the wheel. All the states should act upon this law to protect
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Distracted Driving: Source‚ Effects & Consequences Report Anna Tran September 13‚ 2014 Distracted Driving: Source‚ Effects & Consequences Report In the past ten years‚ distracted driving has emerged as one of the most high-profile‚ discussed issues in road safety today. In fact‚ 80% of collisions and 65% of near crashes have some form of driver attention as contributing factors (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration‚ 2010). In order to fully understand what distracted driving
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Sarah Santiago Student ID# VT1501024 English2: Part 2 General (Revision B) 06 - Assignment 1_6 When I got into a terrible car accident last year‚ I thought it was the worse time in my life. Little did I realize that this experience would help me grow‚ and even inspire me – not despite the horrific nature of the event‚ but because of what happened. Most of the time when people go through huge things in life whether it’s good or bad‚ the outcome is them learning something from whatever happened.
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Trouble Texting Did you ever text and drive? If you did‚ did you ever get hurt? I know people that regret using their phone and driving. You can look down for just five seconds and anything can happen. You can hurt yourself and many others. Texting and driving is a law. But‚ people still do it. It doesn’t matter if you do it at a stopping point. It is still wrong. Somebody can hit you because they are texting and driving. So many bad things can happen. Texting and driving can hurt many people
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What started as a morning full of joy and energy for a young woman in North Carolina on April 24‚ 2014‚ ended in tragedy that same morning. Ann Sanford 32-year-old was driving while using her phone to update his Facebook page‚ the police report indicates that the latest update to her social page was made at 8:33 am Thursday. The latest update of the young Ann Sanford read "The happy song makes me happy." As she crashed into a truck in the opposite direction killing her instantly. Current laws for
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Texting and driving makes you 23 more times likely to crash? Thousands of people get injured everyday from people who decide to text and drive. With a mistake so simple to fix why can’t humans put their phones down? The following essay will include; Sarah Edwards Story‚ apps that prevent texting and driving‚ and statistics and facts. Sarah Edwards was 18 years old as she read her last text message‚ when her Honda Accord went into the other lane and crashed into the rear end of a logging truck.
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This was a study about how the questions leading an investigation can change the way a witness explains what they saw‚ the witness’ memory of the events can be changed or supplemented. For the study they did two experiments‚ the first experiment they gathered 45 American students‚ the experiment was conducted in a laboratory which had five conditions‚ each participant only experienced one of the conditions. The first experiment consisted of 7 films of tragic accidents which were presented
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The issue shown in this picture is that our freeways are very congested during rush hours. Or even perhaps normal hours. The contention of the artist is that we need to figure out a way to clarify this congestion by showing the freeway is barely receiving any movement. The artist uses the technique by showing a motionless picture of a traffic congested freeway composed of cars and vans to show that our freeways are not optimised for this amount of traffic. Which leads us to the question‚ ‘Is our
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COM165 PUBLIC SPEAKING SPEECH OUTLINE Topic : Accident car in Malaysia General Purpose : To inform Specific Purpose : To inform my audience about the causes of accident in Malaysia Central Idea : Road accident has become one causes of death in Malaysia every year due to the few factors such as the Human factor‚ the vehicles factor and the road condition Introduction I. Road accidents are horrific events that usually involve the collision
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Cellular Phone Use While Driving: Risks and Benefits Karen S. Lissy‚ M.P.H. Joshua T. Cohen‚ Ph.D. Mary Y. Park‚ M.S. John D. Graham‚ Ph.D. Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Harvard School of Public Health Boston‚ Massachusetts Phase 1 Report July 2000 Executive Summary This report assesses the risks and benefits associated with cellular phone use while driving. The interest of policymakers in this issue has been heightened by the recent decisions of selected foreign countries and
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