Make sure to keep a three seconds following distance between you and the car in front of you. Keeping this distance makes it safer if some unexpected event happens that may cause the car in front of you to stop suddenly. Also, make sure to use your turn signals, turning without using these signals may lead into some serious accidents. Finally, check your blind spots, changing lanes without checking your blind spots is a hazardous habit. To drive safely, make sure to stay out of other cars blind spots too.
This helps to stop accidents because it removes distractions from a p-plate driver so they can focus solely on driving. Another danger P-plate drivers face while on the roads is their driving speed. If a driver is going too fast, they are not able to stop fast enough or pay enough attention while driving, which can cause accidents. The current p-plate laws are effective in reducing accidents through a drivers speed by introducing laws which limit p-plate drivers to the speed of 90km/h, as well as not allowing p-plate drivers to drive turbo or supercharged engines or have modifications in their engines. These p-plate laws are affective in reducing accidents on the road, because they reduce p-plate drivers to a low speed as well as slow cars.
Explain the term "injury prevention" and give examples of ways to prevent at least three specific injuries. Injury prevention is the things that we do, in order to protect ourselves, and/or others, from getting injured. Stretching before exercise is a form of injury prevention. Wearing a helmet is injury prevention to the head. Wearing a seatbelt can prevent lots of injuries from car accidents.
The ambulance and paramedics will need this because some people will get aggressive when the paramedics try and help them, this is because they may be frightened or confused, and knowing these signs will help the service to calm them down and use the best techniques available to them. The Fire Service has to deal with people in the same way as this, if they are injured and trapped in a car, they will have to calm the person down, so that they may begin extracting them from
They then decided that something needed to be done in order to halt this problem. They developed a program to help its operators stray focused on their driving, and to help control any distractions that might come up, even if they
Also being courteous to other people around us such as opening doors for other people, giving up a seat for an elderly person. Someone who has a license has a duty of care to drive safely and follow the laws when on the road to decrease the amount of car accidents. You also need to be careful when it comes to your own individual safety which means crossing the road. You need to make sure that it is clear to cross so there is no chance that you could cause yourself harm by getting hit by a car. As a human being I think that our duty of care is to look out for other, be responsible for our own actions and help make our environment as best as it could be.
You learn key things such as respect for the road and other drivers, common courtesy, and attentiveness. For example, if a person drives with their lights off in the middle of the night or continuously speeds through a yellow light, they are not following the rules and regulations of the road. Being able to properly assess any situation that arises is crucial. This could be from angry drivers around you to taking the best possible route, reacting to road conditions or being fully aware of what is going on in and out of the vehicle. Simple examples like this show the
Tombeaker Mrs. gray American Literature 20 September 2011 Distractions While Driving While safety may be first in most people’s mind, it is typically last on our to-do lists. If you are concerned for your safety while driving you should avoid texting and talking on your cell phone, talking to passengers, eating and drinking, getting ready, and being a DJ. These five everyday bad habits while driving can be life threatening and by refraining from them you can save your self from the risk of a deadly accident. First on the list is texting and talking on the phone. Texting and talking on the phone can be dangerous and affect your driving by causing you to concentrate on the person you are talking to rather than the road.
How approiate a metaphor is that, maybe people need to start applying the basic rules of a highway. as highways should be navigated at a reasonable speed, blind corners need to be slowed right down for to check they are safe and if your going to do these foolish thing don't take passengers with
These drivers are paying less attention to the road and spending less time controlling their vehicle. While it is difficult to enforce against this type of behavior, law enforcement must take steps to reinforce the message that driving is a full-time task. Departments should apply the community policing technique of scanning, analyzing, responding, and assessing strategies to identify innovative ways to reduce the number of collisions caused by fatigue and inattention. Departments with highway rest areas in their jurisdictions also need to have patrol units check these locations frequently and maintain a high police presence so that motorists feel that it is safe to stop and take a rest. All too often, motorists have come to regard rest areas as dangerous places to stop and sleep, traveling on under fatigue rather than resting for a safe