Kimberley Fudge Revision of my Dui Paper Professor Davenport English 215 June 4, 2013 Could you live with being responsible for a death? Drunk driving is defined as operating a motor vehicle (car, bus, truck, moped etc) after consuming alcohol. In 2003 42, 643 fatalities were caused by vehicle crashes, out of those 17,013 (40%) were alcohol related. A crash is considered alcohol related if any driver, pedestrian or passenger involved has any trace of alcohol or there is a suspicion of alcohol usage. Unfortunately intoxicated victims of crashes sustain worse injuries and are more likely to be seriously injured than the sober victims according to a study by the University of Michigan.
1. Speed Enforcement Excessive speed is a factor in one out of every three fatalities in the United States and affects all other safety programs. A speeding drunk driver is more dangerous than one who is not. A speeding vehicle that runs off the road is far more likely to have a fatal result. A rollover that involves excessive speed is the most likely to result in death.
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.
The current P-plate laws are extremely affective in reducing accidents on the road.This is because they deal with many of the dangers p-plate drivers face while driving, including distractions, driving speed, peer pressure and driver safety. To begin with, the current p-plate laws are affective in reducing accidents while driving because they deal with the important issue of distractions. An example of a distraction that is dealt with by the current p-plate laws is mobile phones. Mobile phones cannot be used by p-plate drivers when driving or while the car is moving or stopped but not parked. This helps to stop accidents because it removes distractions from a p-plate driver so they can focus solely on driving.
A closed injury is when the brain has been damaged from the brain being bounced around the head or severe shaking, for example when in a road traffic accident. Open brain injury is a lot less common than closed and is incurred when a foreign object enters the brain, usually fracturing the skull. An example of this is a bullet entering the brain. These injuries are usually more localised and result in specific damage to the brain. Although traumatic brain injury is classed as part of ABI, it is different as ABI takes place at a cellular level and can affect different zones within the brain.
All the freeways will merge off a different points to end a safe landing point. For example, if you are about to collide into the rear of someone, the Air Enabler nozzle on the front of your car would detect this and blow forward. Meanwhile, the Air Enabler nozzle on the back of the other person would blow towards your car, avoiding collision and keeping you safe. After an experience with the Air Enabler, you would be terrified of driving on land. Could you imagine going back to bumper to bumper
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).
The suicide rate of children between the ages of five and fourteen is eleven times higher than that of twenty-five other countries. Some would say that the United States of America is much too violent. Abuse in America is very bad. An abuser is five times more likely to kill an abused woman if he/she owns a firearm. In addition, in the states with a higher rate of gun ownership, the gun death rate is seven times higher than other states
Finally, even though many of the campaigns feature the same overall message, the public does not view these as redundant or pointless. As long as the large companies and media continue to spread the message about distracted driving and provide warnings to drivers about the severe consequences associated with their choices, we will hopefully reduce the accidents and fatalities that occur in result of distracted driving. I know that I have been one of those drivers before and I am sincerely grateful I have not been injured or killed as a result of my choices. From now on I am not going to risk my life over one text message, one change of a song, or one moment of my eyes off the road. It’s just not worth
There are some states, where mental state is not considered, but rather a set of specific violations can be deemed reckless. Excessive speed by itself is sufficient for a reckless driving conviction in some jurisdictions Since the maximum sentence has been set at 5 years imprisonment, the sentence ranges are generally lower for this offence than for the offences of causing death by dangerous driving or causing death by careless driving under the influence, for which the maximum sentence is 14 years imprisonment. However, it is unavoidable that some cases will be on the borderline between dangerous and careless driving, or may involve a number of factors that significantly increase the seriousness of an offence. As a result, the guideline for this offence identifies three levels of seriousness, the range for the highest of which overlaps with ranges for the lowest level of seriousness for causing death by dangerous driving. The three levels of seriousness are defined by the degree of carelessness involved in the standard of driving.