some people say no some say yes. Are teens under the age of 18 responsible enough to have a car at 17? The important question is what do you think? A reason the driving age should be raised to 18 is because some teens 16-17 may be good natured a good large of them are just plain reckless. Also teens think life is all just a game and they take things lightly (driving). Another reason that teens are irresponsible because in the past years the recent crash rates have been rising from 44 olds to 16
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seconds. If you are traveling at 55 mph, which is the equivalent of driving the length of a football field while blindfolded (Prof. David J. Hanson, n.d.). Now place yourself in the same situation, but on a highway containing turns and various other cars. Would you feel safe if you saw a blindfolded driver headed in your direction? Countless people don’t take these things into consideration when they are in the act of texting and driving.
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are major contributors to road accident mortalities and injuries; speeding and alcohol consumption are the two main risk behaviours that contribute to motor vehicle accidents (3, 6). Other factors the increase risk and frequency of road traffic accidents include speeding, not wearing helmets while riding a motorcycle, not wearing seatbelts, drugs and physical health (1, 5, 7). The consumption of alcohol can increase the risk of a fatality as the result of a car accident by up to 90 more times and if
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stats regarding the accidents and accidental deaths that happen because of distracted driver. There needs to be changes made to the use of cell phone usage while driving to help keep people alive. Distracted drivers cause over half of the nations accidents. According to Gabrielle Kartsas (2014. Para, 6) of the USA Today the National Safety Council's annual injury and fatality report, "Injury Facts," found that the use of cell phones causes 26% of the nation's car accidents which is over 25% of
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of a car is stress and anger. Driving long way in bad mood would make them fall into excitable state which leads to uncontrolled circumstances and regrettable consequences. Another reason for this issue is traffic congestion. It is obviously apparent that drivers stuck in crowded roads and annoying noises for hours will be easily crazy. Those causes will definitely result in negative effects to both individual and society. One of them is road accidents. There are numerous serious accidents caused
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Evaluation of the Topic ‘Causes of Road Fatalities’ Roadway accidents or fatalities, is a globally increasing problem. This problem consumes the lives of persons, mainly males, daily in the most violent of ways. We see in many cases the government of various countries, where this monstrous problem is more prevalent, establish institutions that in turn develop strategies and implementations to tackle and take down this mighty colossus, thereby injecting millions of dollars into these programmes
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Do dealers of cars & dealers of phones want to kill us or help us? I think that they should make phones turn off when you get in a car, the car should be programed to tell the phone companies that someone is driving. Everyone talks about how they wanna stop texting and driving and the only thing they have done was have police officers give them a ticket or warning. Yeah that might scare some people but in the end if there's no cop around then they will just pull their phone out again. “ Do you wanna
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allowed to be used while driving, generates two different positions. The use of a cell phone while a car is in motion should be made illegal throughout the United States with exceptions of emergencies. Cell phones are a distraction and our brain is better at concentrating on one thing at a time, while using a cell phone you have a slower reaction time and it will reduce the amount of vehicle accidents. Some argue that cell phones cause just as much distraction as many other things such as the radio
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study by AAA Foundation, using driving stimulators, says that talking on the phone while driving shows the same behavior as when you drink and drive. They also found out that when people talk on the phone and drive they are more likely to get into an accident than someone drinking and driving. The ad that was chosen for this paper is the ad against talking on the phone and driving. This ad had many points to consider when choosing it. They go against women in this ad, even though it based on only one
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Causes of a death Here in Mongolia, around 7600 people pass away a yearly. And most of them related to 3 ways that affect to causing a death. If people know about the causes of death then they may prevent themselves. Increasing in numbers of causing death are cancer, a criminal case and sudden death. Nowadays in Mongolia, Cancer is really common disease that people face with. There are several dominating cancer exist, which is lung cancer, cervical cancer, liver cancer and so on. From this lists
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