will be looking somewhere else instead of focusing on the road ahead, and eating or drinking while one hand is on the steering wheel. All of these bad habits are unsafe and could be dangerous and contribute to why we have so many unnecessary accidents on the road. All road user s especially new young drivers should practice safe driving by looking ahead and being aware of your surroundings. By identifying
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A health promotion is the provision of information and education both to individuals and to the nation, which will enable them to make positive lifestyle choices. It enables people to take control over factors that affect their own health and so do something to improve their health and wellbeing. The first campaign that I will look at is the Change 4 Life programme. The purpose of Change 4 Life is to inform readers about the health risks associated with not eating healthy foods and not being active
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improve traffic safety in my neighborhood. In the Ardwick-Ardmore district of Landover, Maryland, there are many problems with traffic patterns in the neighborhood. The main backbone, which is Ardwick-Ardmore Road is a constant strip of road with no deterrent traffic lights to delegate traffic flow. Turning onto this street from adjacent avenues can be risky due to the right of way that remains with participants traveling on Ardwick-Ardmore Road. By implementing a Six Sigma plan, traffic flow can
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making sure that your instinct is correct. If the friends also suggest that something is up and that they don’t feel that it is safe. Then you must immediately go to action. Action: In this step you must take action in order to obviate any sort of accident. One way to do this is by (Speaking up). In this situation, you must tell the driver to stop driving and give the cars control to someone’s hands whose alcohol levels are under the legal limit. This is important as if you give the controls to someone
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Stop Driving on road requires proper skills and experience. A driver must need to train him/her before touching the roads and know rules and regulations. You need to have impressive knowledge about sign boards and all rules and regulations of state. If you violate any rule on road, then there’s a chance police want you to stop on road. Whenever you see the flashing lights of car behind you pulling you over – it is important to take steps properly. You have to follow these steps to take an easy stop
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Railroad crossing may seem like a small, insignificant everyday occurrence; however, it is very important to follow basic rules and common sense as you cross railroad tracks. One must be very cautious whether they are a pedestrian or a driver. It doesn't matter whether you're driving a car or walking, you must follow these rules in order to stay safe. Texting, especially while driving is very dangerous while railroad crossing. You need to be paying full attention to your surroundings, which also
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found that the average speed had increased along urban interstate, rural US highway, urban US highway, and rural state highways by 8,4,7, and 5 mph, respectively. Crashes were grouped into the following biases: (fatal crashes), (fatal and incapacitating crashes), (fatal, incapacitating, and capacitating crashes), and (all types of crashes with different injury severity). However, property damaged only was discarded for the study. It was found that 15 months after speed limits had been changed, all
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The accident happened, naturally, because there was a human behind the wheel. That's according to a new report by Google about its self-driving car project, a document that tallies every accident since it began testing its 32 vehicles on the roads in 2009. That sounds like it could be a massive dataset, considering the tens of thousands of accidents that happen on American roadways each year. It actually isn’t: “In the six years of our project, we’ve been involved in 12 minor accidents during
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featured speaker for a Freeport Rotary Club luncheon held at the Barton Hotel today. Johnson’s speech was 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
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several bouts of ice. Sadly this led to multiple accidents, and numerous people being injured, because everyone was just caught off guard, and there was no time to prepare the roads. Then, there is also the fact that because we so rarely get this sort of weather, the state cut the budget for salting the roads, and no longer has funds available for salting the roads. There were a few school busses, that upon early release, skidded and had accidents, and a number of children were injured as a result
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