According to Dave Barry he states that “I have driven in every major U.S. city, including Boston, where the motorists all drive as though there is an open drawbridge just ahead, and they need to gain speed so they can jump across it” (Barry 571). All the drivers that have been terrible drivers never amounted to the ones of Miami. Barry explains how he has also “driven in Italy, where there is only one traffic law, which is that no driver may ever be behind any other driver, the result being that at all times, all the motorists in the nation, including those in funeral processions, are simultaneously trying to pass” (Barry 572). Thus, the drivers of Italy are bad drivers by not caring how fast they go he has witnessed way…
John Chichowski’s article, “Raising the speed limit to 65 mph has taken a deadly toll, experts say,” argues that the raise of the speed limit has caused speeding deaths to increase and the problem is with the lack of police enforcement. This article, which was written in 2016, is relevant to the question of “Should the speed limit be raised?” This article includes statistics and quantitative evidence. The percentage of speeding deaths have risen over the years and police enforcement have been reduced by 500 officers. This evidence was collected from Chris Burgos and the research of the State Police Fatal Accident Investigation Unit.…
“Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry’s famous cry may not mean so much anymore. In the 1970’s, the United States Government made the decision that automakers will be required to install safety belt systems in their vehicles. By the late 1970’s, the government had adopted a concept of two different types of seat belt laws. The primary version of these new laws enforce the law more strictly, allowing a policeman to stop a citizen just for not wearing a seat belt.…
Have you ever just wanted to jump on the freeway and just drive as fast as you can without disobeying the laws? Sometimes you just want to drive fast and sometimes you want to cruise. Unfortunately there are risk, rules, regulations, and consequences to speeding and just cruising. There are some pros and cons of speeding. Some pros of speeding would be getting you from place to place in a timely matter and also getting out of rush hour traffic before it’s all piled up.…
So you’re driving down 35 trying to get to a doctor’s appointment, running late and just like that traffic is slowed to a crawl! What's the cause? An old lady doing 20 hogging two lanes. What a Pain! Now imagine the equivalent for children, for example people who walk really slow in the halls.…
SHOULD GUN CONTROL LAWS BE MORE STRICT? Should Gun Control Laws Be More Strict? Many individuals do not believe that carrying a gun will make them safer; On the contrary many of them carry both openly and concealed and society is better for it. One could ask why society would be better for it? There are many answers someone could provide, but one of the most logical ones would be "If they did somehow manage to take away legal weapons?…
Sometimes, it could be a matter of life or death. When motorists hit their brakes in front of them, it can introduce more harm than good. Better to try to carefully move into an adjacent lane or maintain your pace and let them pass. People Who Insist Police Myths are Police Reality They've heard it all - an arrest is invalid if the cops don't read you your rights; you have to tell me you're a cop if I ask; speed traps are entrapment. Every once in a while, police will come across the know-it all, would-be lawyer who in fact knows nothing about policing, tactics, practices or the law.…
Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Columbine, Aurora. What if these events could have been stopped by someone through the means of legally having a concealed firearm? There is no explanation needed to why 2015 was a record year for background checks to own a gun in the United States. As a result, President Barack Obama along with several other politicians have called for a series of stricter gun control across the country and plans to take executive action to finalize new gun control laws. Many Americans are opposed to this as they feel their safety could be compromised if they do not have their own personal protection.…
Montana was the only state that did not have a daytime speed limit until this time. The government threatened to withhold highway funding money for states who did not comply. Afterwards, Montana gave drivers a $5 fine for going over the 55 MPH…
First, Speeding means trying to get somewhere quickly and going over the speed limit when you are on the interstate the standard speed limit is seventy miles per hour for rural interstates and forty five miles per hour is the minimum speed limit. The speed limit for most business and residential area is twenty five miles per hour and on secondary roads the speed limit for trucks is forty five and for other vehicles it is fifty five. Speeding could be the death of you so never speed. Next, The punishment for not paying your fine is twenty four hours in jail all the way to ninety days and that is for repeat speeding violations that could trigger jail time, particularly reckless driving that means you just keep going over the speed limit by hundreds and you just won’t listen, failing to show up in court if a court send you a date that the ticket have to be payed and you don’t attempt to pay on in you could go to jail for that, and speeding plus one which means you are driving around without a valid driver’s license or…
Safety is a big factor in reasoning for little laws like running a stop sign or speeding. Running a stop sign or speeding is actually very dangerous. Stop signs are put on the street so that people do not hit cars coming from the left or right of them. The speed limits are made so that people are not going too fast around schools or residential areas where pedestrians are so they do not get hurt. There is hundreds of people that die everyday from speeding, being on their phone or even running a stop sign, these laws are here to save a life and keep people safe.…
Having even stricter laws may not hurt drivers in Indiana either. License suspensions should be longer. If someone is drinking and driving, their tendencies are not just going to go away with a snap. If a driver gets let off with a suspension on their license for just 180 days, that same driver may decide that the consequences are not too serious, and just go ahead and drink and drive again. If a driver got their license suspended for at least a year, they would have time to think about what they had done.…
An estimated 20,000lives have been saved in the past twenty-five years, but yet politicians are not wanting to budge on the driving age in the United States. It is estimated that triple the number of lives saved due to the change in drinking age will be saved if the driving age was to be raised. It takes a lot of persuasion to change a hard headed politicians mind. What usually gets them to is a series of crashed involving young adults, and then, jut maybe, they will think of other ways to protect our young people(Davis, “is 16 too Young?”).…
We have to be on our best behavior when behind the wheel of something so powerful and dangerous. During the past our speed limits have gone from the horse and buggy days, to 55 miles per hour. Gradually over time, and study by the US Department of Commerce have shown that driving over 60 would save dollars Americans,2 billion a year.…
I know that speeding is never the answer and I will never speed again, no matter the…