On average, drivers spend more than half their time driving engaged in distractive behavior. Most of the drivers on the road, about 94%, would agree that sending e-mails or text messages while driving is not acceptable and about 87% of drivers support laws against reading, typing or send text messages or e-mails while driving. But unfortunately in this day in age, multi-tasking is simply just a fact of life; everyone will face constant demand for their time, and will feel the need to juggle more things at once now than ever before. And the bad part of that is people try to multi-task while driving, and that is never a good idea (AAA foundation). Another concern in many different communities around the United States is the distracted teen driver, not just the adult.
Angela Veles Crime 330 Thursday 7:00pm Outline Major Topic: Should Captains, Supervisor and Police Officers be immune to the Criminal Justice system or should their ranking be enough to hold them to a higher standard than the ordinary citizen, or does in fact rank bestow privilege? Brief Summary: On February 12, 1998, about 11 p.m., Philadelphia Police Captain James Brady, off duty, left a bar drunk, got into his department-issued Grand Fury, and headed home. A few blocks from the bar Brady rear-ended a parked car, causing substantial damage both to his car and to the Honda Civic he hit. When Captain Brady got pulled over he identified himself with his badge, hence the obvious inference that he was asking for special treatment,
Their high crash rates per 100,000 miles driven are matched only by drivers age 85+ (Janke, Masten, McKenzie, Gebers, & Kelsey, 2003). The over involvement of teenagers in crashes is not unique to California; it is a problem nationwide and worldwide (Twisk, 1996; Williams, 1996). In fact, traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers across the United States (Foss & Goodwin, 2003; Jonah, 1986; Mayhew & Simpson, 1999; Shope & Molnar, 2003). High teen crash risk is due to a number of factors, including an obvious fundamental lack of driving skill. However, contrary to what one might think, the evidence suggests that poor vehicle control skills account for only 10% of novice driver crashes; the remaining 90% is accounted for by factors such as inexperience, immaturity, inaccurate risk perception, overestimation of driving skills, and risk taking (Edwards, 2001).
Push for P-plates until 25 Forcing young drivers to remain on probationary licenses until the age of 25 would cut Victoria's road toll, says the state's top traffic police officer. Under the move, young adults would have to drive with a zero blood alcohol level for an extra three years, or for the first seven years of solo driving. Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill, who wants the community to consider making the change, said 40 per cent of people aged 20 to 25 who were killed or injured on Victorian roads every year were victims of drink-driving. Mr. Hill said medical research showed that the brain did not develop fully until the mid-to-late 20s, particularly the part that controlled decision-making. ''What I'm advocating is a community
In 1995, there were a total of 6,992 DUI arrests, and in 2005 there were 7,942 DUI arrests. In 1998, there were 9,562 DUI arrests (Phoenix Police Department, 2005). So, the number of arrests is starting to come down. I don’t know if this is because there are less drunk drivers or because our laws have become stricter. I do know that Robert Targosz’s death has made the local police officers more aware that our laws need to be more severe and more actions need to be put in place to help stop drunk drivers from ever getting into the vehicle in the first
A Social Problem In America alone people take about two hundred and thirty three trips in cars each year, of all these, one out of two thousand of these trips are being taken by drunk or drugged individuals. Statistics show that one of three traffic tragedies involve drunk drivers. Approximately nine thousand eight hundred seventy eight people died in car crashes in the year 2011. Due to these high numbers it was determined that this was a social problem in which the whole nation should pay close attention
I drive almost every day and I rarely even see signs that tell you to put your seatbelt on, the #1 thing that we must do. Anyway, Florida needs to mark this down on their to-do list and get to it. Our state isn’t doing as well as it should be in promoting safe driving. Texting while driving causes 1.6 million crashes per year. Florida needs to make this an issue.
As the number of vehicles operating at higher speeds on 65 mph interstates is increased it results in a chance of collisions due to increased speed variance and greater risk of fatality resulting from higher crash impact speeds. Today in the USA, “Lead Foot Nation”, many drivers hit speeds that seemed out of reach to everyone but race-car drivers, stuntmen, and moonshiners. Many drivers regard the posted limit as a minimum, not a maximum. USA Today analyzed 1.2 million speeding tickets issued in 2002 on interstates in 18 states or about
With the help of a pedestrian found him riding in the back of a friend’s white Bronco. Nearly instantaneously more than a dozen police cars and news helicopters were on the most famous slow-speed police chase in history. Police bargained with Simpson, and persuaded him to come to a stop outside of his house, where it was discovered Simpson was carrying $8,750 in cash, a false beard and mustache, a fully loaded .357 pistol, and a passport. This is very unusual behavior for a man who had nothing to hide, isn’t it? In the following months evidence would be collected that could only lead to one person committing the murders, O.J.
Zach White English-0 Satirical Essay In America there's a lot of problems with kids and under age drinking. A lot of young children die in drunk driving accidents every year, so finding a solution to this problem can save many lives. The reason all this is a problem is because teenagers tend to think there invincible and can drive under the influence but really they have no idea what there getting themselves into. Most kids miss judge the amount of alcohol they've consumed and when they get behind the wheel think there okay but in reality there way over the legal of drinking. I found there's only one solution to this problem.