...will have too source records of crashes due to speeding in the city through Mass-Dots database or police reports. January 9th 2017 Massachusetts mayor Marty Walsh and his transportation committee signed this bill to reduce the speed limit from 30mph to 25mph on streets that do not have a speed limit sign. Other measures such as signs and new legislation put forward to slow down the drivers in Massachusetts. Speeding has numerous consequences, such as tickets accidents, deaths and car issues. Changing the speed limit to be low will greatly increase the safety of our citizens by giving the driver a better reaction time. One of the main reasons for crashes is speeding. People die in crashes. I have also watched the news a lot to hear enough bike rider hit n runs. What affects or changes has this law of 25 mph made to the commonwealth of...
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...Daily in the United States we lose people to fatal car crashes caused from reckless driving, drunk driving, and speeding. Car wrecks are the number one leading cause of death in the United States today to make the percentage of death by car wrecks go down we need to have have harder consequences on people that break those laws. What is more important to you, driving safely and saving someone’s life or driving how you want to and taking someone’s life or possibly even your own? People lose friends and family daily from car crashes and never get justice for their death, car wrecks affect everyone around people in the crashes, and tickets and license points do not stop people from driving how they want to so we need stronger consequences to stop them from that. I think the in the United States today people get away with driving recklessly, speeding, and drunk driving and we need to create a stronger law and consequence to stop people from causing these deadly crashes. I along with many other people want to stop people from being so careless with their driving decisions. Most people will eventually have a license and a car and...
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...stringent in these requirements, there is a universal emphasis on the dangers of speeding – there are mandated limits on driving speed that are put in place to keep motorists safe. The purpose of a speed limit isn’t to make driving any less fun or to keep people from their destinations, but to advise the maximum safe speed to travel on that given road. However, it is rare to find an individual who consistently abides by the implemented limits; just about everyone chooses to speed some time or another. Why is it that people...
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...Dan A Parallel Message Analysis of Ecovia’s Don’t Speed Speeding plays a role in over one third of all fatal car crashes. If this amount of people speeding could be cut in half, thousands of innocent lives could be saved. Driving too fast has become an issue ever since cars were put on the road but society feels it is time to put an end to this. There are many advertisements and commercials on the television and on billboards, but they don’t seem to be doing the job to stop the speeding. Ecovia, a transit company, is trying to get the message across in a different way. They are tying the message of “don’t speed” in with a very popular issue, of violence against women. Is speeding just as serious as violence against women? That is the question this image is trying to get humanity to think about. The use of text, color, shadows and contrast make this image prove that driving too fast is equally as appalling as domestic abuse. This ad portrays an image of what seems to be a man’s fist striking the jaw of a woman. Right above the man’s arm there is a text box with the words “STOP THE VIOLENCE DON’T SPEED.” The words “DON’T SPEED” are written in the color red. On the man’s hand there is a painting of a red truck. On the woman’s face there is a painting of a yellow SUV. The red truck makes the red writing really stand out. It also draws the message of don’t speed to the red truck to make it seem as if the driver of the red truck is the guilty party in the crash...
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...How Mississauga Can Avoid the Dangers on The Road. The roads of Mississauga have many dangers associated with driving. Peel Regional Police shows, in 2014, there was a total of 28 collision, which have been increasing every year. This essay seeks to uncover the dangers and the solutions of how Mississauga can avoid and prevent these dangers. According to the peel region police, the total number of tickets issued in Mississauga in 2000 increased from 69.589 to 78.732 in 2005. This essay seeks to outline the following dangers: speeding, fatigued driving, and distracted driving which are the main causes of accidents and collisions. The leading cause of danger on Mississauga roads is speeding. Speed driving is when a driver operates their...
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...of punishment methodology by studying the variables such as age, gender, socio-economic status and exposure to crime. In the direct context of speeding, contemporary punishment includes ‘positive punishment’ whereby giving the offender a fine and ‘negative punishment’ by suspension of their license. This essay will also assess the effectiveness of punishment. Attempts to neutralize the issue of speeding include implementing warnings showing the severity and consequences of speeding. However, many young irresponsible drivers cannot relate to the seriousness by influence of their peers whom they value higher than authority figures of the law. Golias, J., Kanellaidis, G., & Zarifopoulos. K. (1995) shows that the major reason for speeding is the belief that speed limits are unreliable with a mean grade of 6.67 thus; this supports the idea that people do not perceive road authorities as an influential figure. At a younger age, influential figures are not ones that are necessarily responsible, but they appeal to them in anintrinsic way. In many cultures, speeding is acceptable; growing with this idea leads many drivers to have a habit of speeding (Blincoe, K.M., Jones, A.P., Sauerzapf, V., Haynes, R. 2006). In the essay’s context, the aim of legal sanctions is for the subject to associate punishment with the unwanted behavior of speeding. (Stafford, M. C., & Warr, M. 1993) suggests although punishment may suppress actions temporarily; it may not completely abolish it. According...
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...EFFECTIVNESS OF ADVERTISMENT FOR SPEEDING BEHAVIOURS A Review of the Effectiveness of Advertisement Campaign as a countermeasure for preventing Speeding Behaviours in Drivers Name: Mylinh Huynh Student number: n8910481 Unit Name: Traffic Psychology Word Count: 3488 Abstract This essay discusses about the theoretical and empirical evidence relating to the effectiveness of advertisement as a countermeasure for speeding. The results of the review highlight the mixed and inconsistent findings that have been reported in the literature. While fear arousal appears important for attracting attention, its contribution to behaviour change appears less critical than other factors, such as perceptions of vulnerability and effective coping strategies. Furthermore, physical threat appeals such as death or portraying physical harm is less effective for males then females. Consequently, further research is required to determine the optimum way to utilise advertisement as a countermeasure for speeding. A Review of the Effectiveness of Advertisement Campaign as a countermeasure for preventing Speeding Behaviours in Drivers Most traffic accidents are caused by dangerous driving habits attained and carried out by drivers. Risky driver behaviours such as speeding and drink driving represent one of the leading causes to road trauma (Boyle, 1984). One of the most prevalent factors contributing to Australia's road death accidents is speeding. According to New South Wales statistical...
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...The claim that the US should adopt the rule of 55 miles per hour as the national speed limit in order to : conserve fuel, save lives, reduce air pollutants, and provide a standard for safety reducing traffic accidents on American roads, highways, and interstates. The Union of Concerned Scientists tells us that dropping from 70 to 60 mph improves fuel efficiency by an average of 17.2 percent. Dropping from 75 to 55 improves fuel efficiency by 30.6 percent!. In an easy to vision example for the people to understand example: A family sedan, every 10 mph you drive over 60 is like paying 54 cents per gallon more for gas you bought at $3.25 a gallon. That extra cost is even higher if you're buying more expensive gas, and for big SUVs and other less-efficient vehicles. The carbon emissions percentage will also drop considerably reducing pollution by 33 percent, and the time you save by going easy on the accelerator may not add up to as much as you thought. On a 300-mile trip, driving 65 instead of 70 mph would cost you only 20 minutes time difference and save money and spew less carbon into the atmosphere. Most small to midsize cars get the best mileage between 45 and 55 mph The studies show that as speeds creep higher, fuel efficiency drops. For every mile per hour over 60 mph fuel economy drops by an average of 1 Percent which is lowering your fuel efficiency. The US Department of Transportation stated in a study dated 2010 that the factors will determine the amounts of...
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...law. The moral reasoning can be related to Kant’s theory which is one of the theories under the deontological theories that judges an action as being either right or wrong not on the basis of the consequences of the action but on the basis of whether or not the action meets the obligation of an individual. The laws provided that every individual in a country is subject to all the laws as provided by the constitution of the country. In this case, the footballer and his wife were supposed to comply with the road laws by respecting the light and also by avoiding the over speeding. The police officer thus uses this moral reasoning to give them a ticket since they went against their obligation according to law. What type of moral reasoning was the football player using? The footballer was looking at the situation in a totally different perspective and another point of moral reasoning from that of the police officer. The moral reasoning used by the footballer was the reasoning that is based on consequences also known as the teleological reasoning. This is the kind of reasoning whether the justification of an action goal oriented. Here the values are used as a major basis for making the argument. The football player justifies his actions of going against the law through over speeding as bases on the a fact that are they stopped for the red lights and drove with the appropriate speed; they would find the mother dead in the hospital since she only had a few minutes left to live....
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...offence that can be enforced by itself. For example, speeding would be a primary offence. Once pulled over for speeding if the officer notices that the driver or passengers do not have seatbelts on, he may also give traffic citations for that, as it is a secondary offence. Many states now hold texting and driving as a primary offence, however there are still several states that do not have a texting and driving ban at...
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...Guido 1 10/4/14 Comp/Lit/1 Final Draft Is It Justifiable to Break the Law? There were times in history when breaking the law was justified. I believe that if you could break the law you should. Great leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr broke the law and changed the world for the better. Breaking the law is justifiable and acceptable when the law violates human rights and conscience. Certainly, rules are established for us to follow. However, we as human beings should be able to differentiate from right and wrong incase laws need to be violated for the right cause. Even with hard consequences, breaking the law can be justified, considering the situations and the purposes. Justification of the of laws depends on the situation, not on the rules and regulations. In certain places of the world there are extraordinary laws that might not be acceptable to all. We cannot ignore the fact that in the civil wars and world wars era the abolitionists were breaking the laws, which surely had a cause but the killing of innocent people and the millions of lives lost do not have an explanation. Such violation in today’s era, cannot be justified (A Theory of justice 1972, 1975). Guido 2 Laws are simply human built, someone somewhere proposed them and implemented those for a reason and sometimes these reasons are completely not justified. Killing is one of the best examples for such unjustified rules where a member of a family is killed by the social groups or any other members...
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...scofflaws, sounds crazy doesn't it? But it’s true, Frank Trippett in his passage “A Red Light for Scofflaws” mentions that more and more Americans are breaking laws as simple as speeding, littering on the side of a road, and even causing some noise pollution. Which is turning them into scofflaws. All of these laws aren't taken very seriously but they are still laws and people need to taken them more seriously before they end up being charged or possibly hurting somebody else. Somebody who would disagree with the author might say how there are people out there who actually obey the laws and are law abiding citizens or that just because you break such a small law like speeding that it does not make you a criminal. A majority of Americans are used to believing that the law and order is mostly threatened by violent crimes, Such as vehicular manslaughter, murder, rape, and kidnapping. Children lately have been raised around a world of people not obeying the laws and they think it is totally fine so when they grow up they will repeat the things that they saw growing up. So when they occasionally break these minor laws,...
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...People who have heard of road rage have a general idea of what road rage is but do not really understand what it is until they have experienced it themselves. Road rage can be caused by tailgating, speeding, driving under the speed limit or cutting others off. Even driving within the required speed limit can start road rage. An example of road rage in the article, “Can road designers and police calm motorists down?” by Sarah Glazer, is told by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, “a station wagon in San Francisco ran a red light five seconds after it turned red hitting a cab at thirty miles per hour” (Glazer 650). Most of the time though it is the smallest infraction that will set people off. For example, not signaling, making a rolling stop, and stealing people’s parking spots while they are waiting for the car to back or pull out. As noted above, road rage can start in many ways. In today's world people live in a fast paced society where everyone is constantly in a rush. They also live in a time were if they want something, they expect it immediately. There is pressure to be at work on time, to get kids to after school activities, or to get home in time to make dinner for the family. If people could find a way to get out of their house ten minutes earlier without speeding or cutting others off, a lot of unnecessary road rage would be...
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...Many ethical theories are concerned with applying rules that seem to have a good outcome. For instance, the Kantian’s rule suggests that we should follow the categorial imperative, others such as situation ethicists, highlight that we should follow the rule that results in the most loving consequence. However, virtue ethicists, a teleological theory, reject this idea, suggesting that we should possess virtues that lead us to become better individuals. So instead of defining what good actions are, virtue ethicists try to define good characteristics that individuals should possess, such as sincerity, courageousness. Furthermore, Aristotle suggests that virtues are dispositions to act and feel. Aristotle highlights that when acting to the desired virtues we are inclined to act in that way. Aristotle believed that this is the correct way to live, to follow the doctrine of mean, believing that behaviour is made up of vices of excess and vices of deficiency....
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...Legal Memo To: Attorney John Smith, Esquire From: Paralegal Re: Westen Vs. Jane Date: March 18, 2002 This memorandum follows your recent assignment where in you requested that I contact Mr. Mark Vision, who witnessed our client Mary Jane’s accident, and determine where Mr. Vision was in association with the accident, the approximate speed of the other vehicle, the weather conditions and any other information that would be useful in either shifting liability or alleging contributory negligence on the part of plaintiff/driver. Analysis of the Interview I contacted Mr. Mark Vision on March 4, 2002. He is an African American male, very tall with a slim build. He wore business casual clothes and he seemed a little nervous, but he was very respectful and well mannered. He was very forthcoming with all of the questions he was asked in the interview. He seemed very truthful and reliable and answered every question with a matter-of- fact attitude. He remembered the entire accident very vividly. He would make a favorable witness for our case, because he feels that Ms. Jane is not guilty. Mr. Vision advised me that he was on the way to work at his part-time job Saturday March 18, 2002. The reason he did not give a statement at the time of the accident, was because he is the Manager and had to be at the company early to let the other workers in and didn’t want to keep them waiting. But Mr. Vision did give the Police his contact information. It was raining that...
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