But among the supposedly injury-free remainder, the Purdue researchers believe tens of thousands of athletes routinely suffer serious brain injuries from high-impact collisions intrinsic to the game. When it comes to concussions there are three different grades. Grade one is simply remove from activity and examine immediately and if okay may return if no symptoms reoccur within 20 minutes. Then you move to grade two which is remove from activity and do not let the athlete to return. Athlete may return after a full week with no symptoms showing.
Outline and evaluate research into the effect of misleading information on the eyewitness testimony. The dictionary definition of misleading information is – Any wrong or misleading information given to the insurer, which may affect underwriting decision. Loftus (1975) experimented the effects of misleading information by showing participants a video clip of a car accident then later splitting the group in half. The first group were asked the simple question “How fast was the white sports car going while travelling along the country road?” This was obviously the controlled question. Others were asked the misleading question “How fast was the white car going when it passed the barn while travelling along the country road?” After a week followed all participants were asked “Did you see the barn?” 17% of the participants asked the misleading question claimed they had seen the barn but only 3% of the other participants said that the barn actually existed.
After each film the participants were given a questionnaire which asked them to describe the accident and then answer a series of specific questions about it. There was one critical. This question was ‘About how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?’ One group of participants were given this question. The other five groups were given the verbs smashed, collided, bumped or contacted in place of the word hit. The mean speed estimate was calculated for each group.
Texting and Driving Shannon Thomas Texting and Driving A. Topic 1) Research question: * How does texting and driving effect everyone? 2) Working thesis: * It only takes five seconds to be distracted and send a text message, which traveling at 55 MPH, five seconds is enough time to travel the length of a football field, and a fatal accident can also occur within those five seconds, because this is a form of multiple distraction. 3) Angle: * People to take five minutes of time to realize how dangerous of a situation they are putting themselves, as well as everyone because a text message cannot wait. B.
The study found people who texted while they drove also had a dramatic decrease in their ability to control their steering wheel. In fact, the study found texters had a ninety-one percent decrease in their ability to control the direction of their car. Texting while driving has shown an increase in risk of serious injury. Statistics show the motor vehicle death rate of teens caused by cell phones is 21 percent and rising by 4 percent a year. Texting while driving increases your chances of crashing by 20 times.
Shar Harriott March 7, 2012 Composition 101 Mrs. Lamm Durable as a car? Not. According to the US census every year thousands of children are involved in car accidents and hundreds of these accidents result in child fatalities. Advertisements that discuss car accidents involving children are effective in having appeal on pathos. The ad is a picture of a child with a dent in her head that looks as if she is made of car metal.
''It takes away any ambiguity about 'am I below the limit or not' and the errors people make in judging whether they are OK to drive when they are not.'' A total of 2837 people aged 18 to 25 died on Victorian roads between 1987 and 2012. This age group accounted for more than a quarter of all road deaths despite making up only about 12 per cent of the population. Vicki Richardson, whose 20-year-old daughter Brooke was killed while texting and driving last December, said extending probationary license restrictions would save lives. ''I don't think young adults have that sense or fear factor in them until they are about 25,'' Ms Richardson said.
Thomas B Falkner III, a third year student at Thomas M Cooley Law School, interrogates this, and after being peer reviewed, he published his work in the National Distracted Driving Summit in 2010. Falkner describes texting as an “epidemic” that is sweeping the nation, and that many young drivers believe they can use their cell phones while driving without any impairment on their driving capabilities. He simply states, “Well, they can’t.” Falkner hopes to get all states to make laws prohibiting the act of texting while driving by showcasing the state of Michigan and their impressive decrease in annual car accidents since enforcing the law (Falkner). This law prohibits drivers from reading, typing, and sending text messages while their cars are in motion. The law made allows a police officer to pull a driver over if they suspect a violation of any of the three aforementioned acts while
Although we have educated and preached to our children about drinking and driving, the statistics in 2001 showed an estimated 2.8 million college students drove under the influence. That’s half a million more than in 1998. An alarming statistic from Mothers Against Drunk Driving is that more college under-graduates will die from alcohol related causes than will receive a masters or doctorate degree. Another statistic, one I found sickening and very upsetting was,” During a typical weekend, an average of one teenager dies each hour in a car crash. Nearly fifty percent of those crashes involved alcohol” (MADD).
For all of the above reasons, California's present and predicted future size is a wakeup call for the State and the nation." To understand California's immigration problem, during the same decade, all of the northeastern States from Maine to Virginia, combined, gained less than four million people, i.e., native-born along with both legal and illegal immigrants. However, it's worth noting that, during the same decade, the population of illegal immigrants in New Jersey doubled. I was recently in Los Angeles and even a brief visit demonstrated the problems this massive influx of immigrants is creating. Highway congestion in that metropolitan area is a nightmare.