I believe having cars in high school is very pointless. For the most part students would only need to drive to school, and then back home, and that’s why schools provide bus transportation. So what’s the need for students to drive to school? “300,000 motor vehicle crashes result in injuries for the age group 15-18 per year”. The amount of lives that can be saved by raising the driving age to 18 would be very large.
“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).
“Cracking down on those who take drugs or drink and then drive is a year round commitment for Warwickshire and West Mercia.”- West Mercia Police. “Law enforcement officers across West Alabama will be aggressively seeking drunk drivers and arresting anyone who is driving impaired.” – Assistant Director Tasha Washington (“Crimson Beat”). The dangers of drunk driving are being highlighted as a part of a festive countdown on motorists who put people’s lives at risk by not following the law (Harris, 1). MADD (Mothers against Drunk Driving) serves a victim or survivor of drunk driving every ten minutes. Since 1980 MADD has nearly saves 300,000 lives…and
And for that moment I wished it was me on that bike because I was late for work. The way gasoline prices are going up all over the world, biking to work instead of driving will be the best way to offset the rising cost of gas, and also to avoid getting stuck in traffic. According to Michael Bluejay, an award winning writer of “The seven- best on the web! “Automobiles are the second largest source of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution in the U.S. They create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 each year”.
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.
In fact, the likelihood that the driver will get into an automobile accident is just the same as someone who has a blood alcohol level of .08 percent, which is when a person is legally intoxicated. Ten states have already banned the use of hand-held phones and 35 states have banned texting while driving. Experts have always compared distracted driving while drunk driving but they are saying a better comparison is smoking, because Americans have an addiction and feel the need to be connected at all times (Matt
Only about 60 percent of all drivers today wear their seatbelts, and according to Oklahoma state university, that is one of the leading causes in car accident fatality(“study mode”). According to the NHTSA wearing your seatbelt is the most effective way for any driver to prevent death in case of an accident. From 2004 to 2008 seatbelts have saved about 75,000 lives, and save about 13,000 lives each year says Oklahoma State University. An article from car accidents .com called “seat belts save lives” says, Americans pay about $580 dollars to car crashes every year. If people would simply buckle up, that alone could cut the costs down dramatically.
Argument Essay There are approximately 6 million car accidents per year in the U.S, forty percent of car accidents are caused by drunk driving, thirty percent are due to driving above speed limit, and the other thirty percent are because of reckless driving. There are many causes for accidents and the use of cell phones is the minority of the causes. If the government is ready to prohibit using cell phones while driving, then they should be ready to prohibit many other things as well. This entire debate is nothing new. Distracted driving has been a hot topic since 1905, and there were no cell phones back then.
Driving Skills In all my years of driving I have received two speeding tickets, and I have had no accidents. I never noticed the bad driving skills of others, or been more scared of other drivers than when my son got behind the wheel of a vehicle for the first time. From the time I began teaching my sixteen-year-old son to drive, I have observed motorists turning without signaling, vehicles barely stopping at stop signs or stop lights, and drivers talking or texting while driving. The first worrisome driving skill I noticed was that many people fail to use their turn signal. My son Travis had to hit his brakes unexpectedly because a young girl in front of him did not use her blinker as she turned the corner.
20 December 2011 Teen Driving Video Although the number has decreased since 1986, “According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, auto accidents are the leading cause of death for teens in America.” (Driving Teens Crazy.) On a yearly average, six thousand teens die in car-related accidents. That is more than 15 people a day! Teens simply lack driving experience and do not have the ability to predict and handle many traffic situations. (Graduated Driver Licensing).