Finding Love in the Wreckage: Estimating Spousal Altruism with Data on Fatal Car Accidents Ilya Beylin, Anup Malani, and David Abrams1 Abstract. This paper estimates the degree of altruism among spouses by examining how often the driver of a car sacrifices himself or herself in order to save a spouse. Holding constant the magnitude of a collision, a driver can maneuver the car to distribute the risk from a collision between the driver and a passenger. We quantify spousal altruism by the degree to
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texting while driving. Texting while driving is teenagers’ number one driving distraction (Cell Phone). Texting while driving has not really been a big concern until recently. Law enforcement have realized that the percentage of texting and driving accident have risen over the past years. Texting while driving has been getting ignored but now it’s time to bring it to the light to save some lives. Texting while driving is the #1 wrong thing to do while driving than anything else (Cell Phone). Teenagers
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Around 1.6 million individuals die every year from being in a fatal car accident due to texting and driving. This epidemic has been spreading since the early 90’s, when cell phones were first introduced. People look down for an innocent second and then it all goes black. If someone is driving fifty-five miles per hour and looks at their phone for five seconds, they have driven the length of a football field, without looking at the road. Texting and driving should be illegal in all states based on
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United States were killed due to texting while driving. This number is an increase to the 3,210 people that were killed in 2007. (http://www.stoptextsstopwrecks.org/#facts) Teenagers are the most common age group that die because of texting (45% of accidents resulted in death). In addition, The Allstate Foundation’s recent survey showed that 82% of teens report texting while driving, while only 23% admit to drinking and driving. And according to data collected by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
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The choices we face on a day-to-day basis range from getting out of bed and starting our day, to investing our hard earned money into buying a new car or house. We make so many choices in just one day and most of the time we don’t even ponder the decisions we end up making. Recently, in the past year, after being involved in an automobile accident I was faced with, what seemed to be a very big decision. This very big decision was whether or not to move back to Cleveland after living on my own
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road, there would be less accidents and less wrong way drivers. In today's time, wrong way drivers are what often cause a lot of accidents. "Common mistakes of inexperienced drivers are that they are too slow and they fail to yield the right of way" (roadtestready.com). With slow drivers that fail to yield the right of way to vehicles could be a danger to drivers throughout the state. Moreover, texting and driving is also a main reason why teens get into accidents. According to Zoe Schuler
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wrenching grief, ecstasy of freedom and death. Louise Mallard is a typical housewife who is beset with the familiar problems awaiting the arrival of her husband. Her sister, Josephine at the beginning of the story breaks the story of her husband’s fatal accident gently and Louise cries in her arms with wild abandonment. The reader is introduced to the mysterious heart trouble which Mrs Mallard suffers from and this ailment keeps its date with Mallard’s destiny till the very end. After this one showing of
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entitled, “How to Cope with the Traffic Toll,” emphasizing the risks of drunk driving and what can be done to reduce the numbers. Johnson began by stating that highway fatalities are the leading cause of accidental death, with grinding traffic accidents killing about 40,000 men, women and children every year. “Not a pleasant subject, but a pressing one when you consider that more people have been killed on our highways–many more–than have been slain by the enemy in all our wars,” Johnson said
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Compensation with Help from Accident Lawyer Accidents can happen anywhere in our daily lives as we are doing our daily chores. If a person is working in an industry especially where the possibility of an occurrence of a tragedy is almost near certainty they should make sure that the employer has insured them. This becomes a necessity when one gets injured and would like to sue the company or the insurance firm in the court of law. Without proper representation at the court by an accident lawyer they may not
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and studies show that the risk of having an automobile accident or near accident significantly increases when a person is talking on their cell phone. Although, not everybody who uses their cell phone while driving has been or will be in an accident, but an alarming number of people who were involved in automobile accidents have been reported to have been using a cell phone while driving. Because of the increased number of traffic accidents caused by cell phones, it can be show that cell phone use
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