Vehicle rollover has been identified as the vehicle crash with highest fatality. Rollover crashes are among the most significant of all safety problems for all classes of light vehicles, especially pickups, Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV), Light Trucks Vehicle(LTV) and vans. About 8,242people were killed in light vehicle rollover crashes, which constitutes almost one fifth of 40,080 crash victims in USA, in 2010. According to NHTSC in year 2010, 7% of light vehicle crashes involved rollover, but these crashes accounted for 31% of light vehicle occupant fatalities. The risk of death or injury is particularly high for passengers in a single vehicle rollover, which represent approximately 80 percent of light vehicle crashes.
“Traffic deaths from drunken driving have fallen steadily, with those involving teenagers 16 to 19 declining by 39.1 percent from 1982 to 1990, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)”. (Clark, 1992). Even though drinking and driving is a crime thousands of teens continue to get behind the wheel and kill thousands of innocent people in alcohol related crashes every year. There are drunken accidents because teens don’t take drinking and driving seriously. Teens just want to feel the pleasure and they want to feel good but don’t think about the other people or even there selves that they can kill on the road.
32,500 children have been neglected in 2010, and in Ingham County 42 percent of children have been abused or neglected (milhs.org). In Ingham County, 8.5 children of every 1000 are in out of home care, referring to foster homes, etc (milhs.org). Unemployment rates and low income is affecting the youth and children in terrible ways. WLNS.COM reported in an article titled “More Michigan Children living in Poverty” that there are a lot of reasons why neglect and abuse has gone up 92%. Now there are more health professionals available to investigate issues of neglect and abuse and family court in Ingham County has become a strong source of help for
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, within the past 10 years, almost 150 people have died from motorcycle accidents in the state of Idaho. Of these fatalities, over 60% were not wearing a helmet. A recent study (Orsay et al., 1994) published in the Center for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, estimates the use of a properly fitted and secured helmet can reduce the risk of death by over 25%, and reduce serious head trauma in a motorcycle accident by almost 35%. Yet many people still refuse to wear a helmet. The financial burden to society from these accidents is staggering.
Community Health Advocacy Project: Adolescent Suicide Linda Rogers Antuono NUR/544 April 22, 2013 Professor Nancy Tahara Community Health Advocacy Project on Adolescent Suicide Introduction This paper is on adolescent violence related to suicide in ages 13-19. Teenage suicide among adolescents 15-19 the third leading cause of death ("Childtrendsdatabank.org," 2013). According to "Healthychildren.org," (2013) “An average of four American teenagers commits suicide every day” (para. 3). In 2010, firearms accounted for 40% of teen suicides ("Childtrendsdatabank.org," 2013).
The most common perpetrators of elder abuse were “adult children (15 per 100,000 cases) or a current or former spouse (13 per 100,000)” in 2009 (Walsh et al., 2011, p.20). Abuse of seniors is an important issue to address especially within the community where it is difficult to detect. From statistics, it should be recognized that adult children and spouses are the most common perpetrators and elderly women are the most common
Homicide is still the number one cause of death of youths from ten to twenty four years of age within the United States. Youth violence is mainly the number one cause within non-fatal injuries of youths. In 2011, there were over 700,000 youths aged from ten to twenty four, that had to be treated in emergency facilities because of non-life threatening injuries that occurred from assaults. “No state is immune to the devastating impact of youth violence” (Youth Violence National and State at a Glance, n.d., para. 1).
An average of 17,000 individuals die each year in drink driving related deaths. The numbers have come down slightly , for example, in 2010 10,228 individuals died from drink driving related fatalities, drink driving continues to be an enormously important public safety issue. What is more, drinking and driving is strongly correlated with youth. After the age of 25, the drink driving rates rapidly decrease. It seems quite plausible that were alcohol to be illegal for those under the age of 18, the 15.1% of 18 to 20 year olds who drink before getting behind the wheel would decrease significantly.
Out of these 32,000, suicide accounts for 60% of all gun related deaths in the U.S. About 3% of gun related deaths are accidental. The remaining 34% accounts for homicide related deaths caused by firearms. That comes to about 11,000 gun related deaths per year, but out of these,
In 1991, children 12 years old and under committed 35 murders and nearly 5000 aggravated assaults. Six of the murders and more than 1000 of the assaults were by children under the age of 10. ( ) Now you may think those numbers aren’t very significant but what if it happened to your child or in your neighborhood. You would want to know that something was being done about