Every day when people turn on the news in Arizona they hear of countless traffic accidents, this is because Arizona has some of the worst traffic safety in the country. Whether it is lack of laws, education, or enforcement it is a huge problem that many people are not aware is as bad as it is. About 1.3 million people are killed in accidents every year and Arizona is a huge contributor. Arizona is lacking in many laws that help to prevent many problems as well as having minimum funding to fix it. The traffic safety laws are not current and a high fatality count shows how much they are in need of a drastic change.
The Valley, referring to the Phoenix metropolitan area, is 3rd in the country for traffic accidents resulting in death. The only …show more content…
Arizona has been said to have some of the weakest traffic laws in the country. Out of the whole United States of America 46 states have talking and texting while driving banned, Arizona is not one of them. The only places that have prohibited texting while driving and are now giving out fines of $100 to $200 are Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix. Tempe has fallen behind, but just this year the city has passed the “Distracted Driving Ordinance.” This law states that a driver can be fined starting at $100 if a driver shows “distracted” behavior. Since this does not count texting and talking on the phone, which is still legal in Tempe, it puts into question how affective this new law is. The plan that the city has for the future is to outlaw the use of a cellphone while driving in 2016 but why the wait when “approximately 11 teens die everyday by texting related accidents,” says researchers at University of Arizona. Two years ago a DPS officer was killed by a man who was using his cell phone while driving, this crash is one of the reasons a distracted driving law was lobbied for. The truth is it should not take an officer being killed to have this problem be fixed. State Senator Steve Farley agreed saying “It’s (texting while driving) a major issue, we need to make it safer for …show more content…
The amount of crashes on the road this year is much higher than the numbers Arizona has had in the past. As the fatality numbers go up the nation number of fatalities goes down. The question everyone is asking is why Arizona is falling so far behind in traffic safety. According to Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, “Arizona was one of 11 states the report marked in red, a “dangerous” zone for their failure to have sufficient numbers of the “key” safety laws a single state should have.” Knowing that the government is given this data and is still not seeing the results, as a problem should worry the community. The deaths resulting from traffic in the circle graph shown above are alarming. It is shown that 38.6% of deaths on the road are from driver error. Most of this can be thwarted if the citizens are up to date with traffic issues and the government starts to make a
The Valley, referring to the Phoenix metropolitan area, is 3rd in the country for traffic accidents resulting in death. The only …show more content…
Arizona has been said to have some of the weakest traffic laws in the country. Out of the whole United States of America 46 states have talking and texting while driving banned, Arizona is not one of them. The only places that have prohibited texting while driving and are now giving out fines of $100 to $200 are Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix. Tempe has fallen behind, but just this year the city has passed the “Distracted Driving Ordinance.” This law states that a driver can be fined starting at $100 if a driver shows “distracted” behavior. Since this does not count texting and talking on the phone, which is still legal in Tempe, it puts into question how affective this new law is. The plan that the city has for the future is to outlaw the use of a cellphone while driving in 2016 but why the wait when “approximately 11 teens die everyday by texting related accidents,” says researchers at University of Arizona. Two years ago a DPS officer was killed by a man who was using his cell phone while driving, this crash is one of the reasons a distracted driving law was lobbied for. The truth is it should not take an officer being killed to have this problem be fixed. State Senator Steve Farley agreed saying “It’s (texting while driving) a major issue, we need to make it safer for …show more content…
The amount of crashes on the road this year is much higher than the numbers Arizona has had in the past. As the fatality numbers go up the nation number of fatalities goes down. The question everyone is asking is why Arizona is falling so far behind in traffic safety. According to Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, “Arizona was one of 11 states the report marked in red, a “dangerous” zone for their failure to have sufficient numbers of the “key” safety laws a single state should have.” Knowing that the government is given this data and is still not seeing the results, as a problem should worry the community. The deaths resulting from traffic in the circle graph shown above are alarming. It is shown that 38.6% of deaths on the road are from driver error. Most of this can be thwarted if the citizens are up to date with traffic issues and the government starts to make a