It has to be eye-catching so that it can be read by as many people possible. The Teen Task Force came up with an advert targeting the youth. Mostly, research and statistics show that the teenagers and college students are the ones involved in accidents at the highest level. The Teen Task Force came up with a photo, entitled Zero Fatalities, one of the many found in a brochure. The aim was to educate the teenagers on the driving laws and the painful repercussions of not sticking to the driving laws
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generate new revenue for the organization. I am two blocks from the office, and the meeting starts in five minutes. As I approach an intersection, I see the traffic light change from green to yellow. Two cars in front of me pass through the traffic light while it is yellow. I know I will not be able to traverse the intersection before the traffic light changes to red. No other vehicles appear to be crossing the intersection. What do I do? What would you do? Every day one faces decisions resembling
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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
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Reasons behind traffic jam in Dhaka city (a) City lay-out (master plan) and over-population: The causes of traffic congestion in Dhaka city are multifarious. Starting from the city itself, it is observed that the skeleton, structure and lay-out of Dhaka City are not well-planned and well-directed. Dhaka is also a highly populated city. More than one crore people live here and the figure is increasing day by day. This huge population acts as an auto-catalyst of traffic congestion in Dhaka City
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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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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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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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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
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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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Private bus service: Is it a real service provider to the nation? Today, people have begun to express their frustration over the unfair increase of bus fares from time to time in the recent past. It has become the widespread subject of arguments among the public. A certain bus ownership has threatened an increase in bus fares on its own from September but the Transport Commission has categorically emphasised that transport permits would be revoked against any illegal increase of bus fares. This
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