“Incidents of “road rage” were up 51% in the first half of the decade, according to a report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,” writes Andrew Ferguson in Road Rage (553). It’s sad that due to road rage many innocent commuters suffer the consequences. It has also happened to me while driving; because I’m driving to slow, the person behind me starts to blow the horn. And, it makes thing worse because then I will get mad and drive even slower. In Road Rage, Ferguson points out that in a recent survey that the Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety did, 64% of the people mentioned that they are driving less mannerly and more recklessly than they did about five years ago (553).
Many states began passing legislation either in response to fatal crashes involving texting while driving, or near fatal crashes that involved texting while driving. By the early part of 2010, 21 states had banned texting while driving. De Soto provides numerous statistics that compare drunk driving to texting. The studies were used showed that texting while driving is just as dangerous to public safety as drunk driving. De Soto list several fatal and non-fatal accidents cases from New York to Washington State from texting while driving.
In the United States of America approximately 32,000 people die each year from speeding in an automobile. two of my friends past away on January 4, they were victims of reckless driver, which blew red light going 100 MPH on Ford Rd and telegraph. When I went to the funeral it broke my heart seeing his mom crying, and after they put his casket in the grave she tried to threw herself in it, other people had to hold her back. I felt the pain because he was one of my close friends and my team captain; it wasn’t easy for me to believe that he is gone. But if the guy who hit them didn’t have the bad habit of speeding they would have never died as two young men.
7/13/12 In the United States distracted driving is cause to more than 8,000 automobile accidents a day. The drivers that are most likely to be offenders to this are the youngest and the most inexperienced on the road. Out of the drivers involved in the accidents caused by distractions 16% of them are under the age of 20. So what are these driver distractions you may ask, they include texting, usage of a cell phone or smart phone, eating and drinking, talking to passengers, self grooming, reading, including maps, usage of a navigation system, watching a video, or adjusting the radio, cd player, or mp3 player. Types of distracted driving varies, there are visual
when things go wrong with your car it could make you have wreck. Second, make sure everyone in the car is buckled in the right way. People do not realize that proper seatbeltings is important even if your riding a short distance. People die every day from not putting on their seatbelts. Seat belts and car seats for kids save thousands of lives every year.
(4) Staging an accident is Insurance Fraud, a third degree felony punishable by a maximum of seven years imprisonment. (5) And working with others to stage an accident is Conspiracy to Commit Insurance Fraud, an equally serious crime. (6) DiLacqua had turned two traffic offenses into four crimes, two of them felonies. Because the reported accident involved a Police Department vehicle, the dispatcher had to notify the Department's Accident Investigation Division (AID). Two AID investigators soon arrived and DiLacqua told them the story he had prepared, with Brady and the two officers standing by.
| Electronic Surveillance of Employees | | | [Type the author name] | LEG 500 | | 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Just like most spaces used by people, a workplace is divided into two sides, a private one and a public one. The workplaces are also different from one another depending on the industry they specialized in. Some are more customer service oriented where employees deal directly with customers that are present most of the time.
The second step, if the complaint was not dealt within first instance then a written complaint to the area manager is to be made. After that, the complaint will be investigated and meetings may also be arranged. A written response should be sent to complaint within 28 days and the complaint will be logged and kept at the nursery for at least three years. The third step, if the complaint is not satisfied then Ofsted should be contacted. Medication: Medication will not be administered any child, only exception in severe asthma.
Approximately 1.4 million accidents occur during phone conversations and two hundred thousand from texting.3 Texting drivers may be as impaired as a driver who is legally drunk. Laws should be changed or enacted to prevent senseless accidents, and unnecessary deaths. About five thousand people die annually texting while driving.3 Three-hundred thousand people are hospitalized for injuries obtained from accidents cause by phone use in the vehicle.4 Again no state in the U.S. completely bans all cellular phone use in the vehicle for all age groups.1 Without firm, enforced laws or probations regarding phone use in vehicles this issue will continue to grow worse. 1. 2012, Texting And Distracted Driving Infograaphic, retrieved on 2014, January 27, from:
Distractions by mobile phones cause horrific accidents and many of them led to death. Driving while using a mobile phone can reduce the amount of brain activity that is associated with driving by thirty-seven percent, (Distracted Driver Accidents). Talking on a mobile phone can be distracting when driving a vehicle. When talking on a cellular phone while driving it takes the attention off of the task at hand. It only takes a moment for a car to drift into another lane or off of the road and cause an accident.