Car Accidents Essay

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Each year 33,804 people died per year because of automobile accidents. Automobile accidents occur when people drink alcohol, they are distracted in the road, they are texting and some of them are high on drugs. Some of the symptoms when people are about to get into a accident is when you see them drive dangerously. The ways to diagnose why people got into accidents is when they get a drug test, sobriety test, checking their phone for recent activity usage and if the car had mechanical problems. The ways the screening should begin depends on the age of the person that got in the accident. Some ways to reduce the risk factors on accidents by not drinking and driving, no texting, and place seatbelts on
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In a daily bases I do not eat a lot of nutritional food that can help me stay healthy. I woulds really like to do more in my fitness test because they are very low numbers. My weight is up instead of going down because I am not physically active after school. The numbers of my fitnessgrams are not increasing in big numbers but they are moving little by little which is not a good sign.
My family over all health and activity levels are desent. In a daily bases we don’t eat the minimum amount of vegetables or fruits a day. We don’t do any type of physical activity at home because we have no time. My family eats less than 3 time in fast food restaurants. We eat almost all the time at home with my mom cooking up some food that can be considered healthy like soup or chicken soup.
Some of the things me and my family should do to get healthier is to eat more healthy food in daily bases. I should begin to teach my family to stay healthy by finding a least ten minutes of their day to do some type of physical activity like some pushups or jumping jacks. I should start talking to my family about the health problem we can develope by keeping up with this lifestyle. My family and I should began to develop a healthier life because of the health problem in my family which are cancer and diabetes.
With many people dying in car accidents research continues to prevent those
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The driver will have a wristband that will look at the health. Connected with the brakes the car will stop in any kind of emergency that the driver is experiencing. For example if the driver is having a heart attack the wristband will communicate that to the car to come to a safe complete stop. Studies made have found a device for the car to know if another car is getting close, which can be use too so the car can stop before both cars collide. This is going to lower the death rate of accidents because we are going to control all causes of accidents. It 's going to take time for all cars in the country to have this system of emergency response.
The data in the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that car accident death rate is most probably going to decrease more as the years go by. The data collected by the CDC shows that in 1980 about 230,000 people died and in 2008 about 140,000 people died from car accidents. This shows that the death rate for accidents is decreasing making it a good sign that all the work that has been done is making progress. If the rate of death keeps decreasing in 2020 there will be 100,000 deaths from car accidents and in 2035 about 50,000 people will died from

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