Reflecting on Oprah Winfrey Editorial “Dnt Txt N Drv” In the recent years there have been many deaths attributed to texting while driving. In 1979 when Oprah Winfrey was a television reporter‚ death caused by a drunk driver was big news in her field. As these deaths continued to rise in number‚ news about them began to decline. Now a day we encounter a different kind of death‚ those deaths caused by people talking or texting on their cell phones‚ while driving. Many are being proactive on this issue
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Vehicles crashes are the 9th leading cause of death and are responsible for 2.2% of all deaths globally. Almost 1.3 million people die each year and 20-50 million are injured or disabled in crashes around the world. These statistics could go down greatly if everyone practiced a safe way of driving otherwise known as defensive driving. Defensive driving is “The action or practice of driving a motor vehicle in a manner which prioritizes safety through the use of particular tactics intended to anticipate
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Casey Neistat’s video “Texting While Walking” is arguing against texting while walking by listing the dangers of it. His claim that texting and walking is dangerous. Neistat uses examples of actors running into things due to them not paying attention to their surroundings‚ disrupting the flow of pedestrians because they stop in the middle of a street‚ and other pedestrians becoming annoyed by the actor texting and walking to defend his claim (Neistat‚ 2012). The main purpose of “Texting While Walking”
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Motorcycle Accidents The Motorcycle accident gives severe consequences to the motorcyclist‚ it does not only kill the person but sometimes it makes them handicapped and took their important parts of body. There are always severe results of the accidents of motorcycle with the vehicle. Besides the injuries‚ there are also the following severe consequences of the motorcycle riding: The motorcycle riders’ death rates increased among all riders and vehicle drivers.The Motorcycle rider deaths were
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Road safety is increasingly becoming a major killer and a worldwide concern. A child is killed in an accident every three minutes. Everyday more than one hundred people are killed due to lack in road safety. Around six thousand people are injured due to these small mistakes of a driver. Many people look at road safety as non-essential‚ but this a major topic of accidents occurring every minute nowadays. . Road accident is a global tragedy with ever-raising trend. To avoid these‚ a driver should
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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 causes of the car accidents are driver
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Knowing your audience paper and Communication Release BCOM/275 March‚ 19‚ 2012 Knowing your audience paper and Communication Release As we all know how important it is to use proper communication we also must ensure that the receivers of that message understand the information we are providing to them. Without checks and balances when conveying our thought process verbally or non-verbally it will ensure us our audience completely understands and not lead to confusion. As we will notice
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Causes of car accidents Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime‚ anywhere. "According to the National Safety Council‚ which stated that more than 2.5 million collisions back every year‚ making it the most common type of car accidents‚ it is also known that the accident rear end as incidents of injury‚ because the nature of the collision leads often in whiplash injury the driver in the car in front and about 20% of people who participated in a rear collision injury symptoms of this kind. "
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Road Accidents Malaysia Nowadays‚ road accidents are very common in Malaysia. Everyday we read newspaper we also can saw many news about there are many peoples involved in the road accidents. First of all‚ what is means by road accidents? Road accidents are means that when some automobile crash together or the vehicle crash on the side of the road or the peoples at the road. According to the sources from Royal Malaysian Police (n.d)‚ there is a statistic mentioning the number of the road accidents
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International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (IASIR) (An Association Unifying the Sciences‚ Engineering‚ and Applied Research) ISSN (Print): 2279-0047 ISSN (Online): 2279-0055 International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computational and Applied Sciences (IJETCAS) www.iasir.net ACCIDENT DETECTION SYSTEM APPLICATION Akshay Agrawal1‚ Anand Khinvasara2‚ Mitali Bhokare3‚ Sumit Kaulkar4‚ Prof. Y. K. Sharma5 Department of Computer Science‚ Vishwakarma Institute of Information
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