Car and Driver Ten Best

Intro When the traffic light turns yellow it is impossible to predict if a driver will hit on the brakes, which can cause a rear-end collision or accelerate, which can cause a right angle crash. Motorists may not notice the signal change until they enter the “dilemma zone”, a position in which “the driver can neither stop comfortably nor proceed into and clear the intersection before the appearance of a conflicting green indication,” Federal Highway Administration National Highway Traffic…

Every year more than forty-thousand people die in car accidents whether it is their fault or not. This number varies on all the deaths including adults, children and most of all teenagers. “There are about one-hundred deaths per day in the United States.” Most of these fatalities occur during evenings on weekends than on weekdays. In North Carolina the average deaths per year are one-thousand and forty-eight percent of that are due to impaired driving .There is a one-thousand percent change…

eyes and brain swelling that can leads to the baby’s death. But not injure the baby in any other way. No bruising, no broken ribs, no neck injury, that somehow you can get the forces high enough to create the kinds of injuries you see in a high speed car crash, said Carrie…

changed the world today. One that stuck out in particular was Julia Hill. Julia Hill was a woman who at the age of 22 affected the Redwood forest in a spectacular way. Julia was born in Mount Vernon, Missouri on February 18th, 1974. She spent the first ten years of her life playing outside of her father's travel trailer at campsites. Their family traveled across the country following her father's minster work. She had a love for nature, and nature loved her. At age six or seven, her family…

carelessness of a small screen. The state of Missouri knows this all too well and wants to outlaw distracted driving; however real estate agents are opposing this measure. The real estate agents claim they must answer phone calls in the car and if they don’t they…

overhead streetlights begin to turn on as nightfall sets. Alissa pays for two hours of parking and the trip home should be short, as much of the traffic has died down. Meanwhile, Drew is at home in his office looking over some PET scans to decide his best route of action for a surgery he is operating in two days. Stressing out a bit, his patient is of old age, which is concerning for external complications during the surgery. He receives a text from his wife that she and the boys should be home…

snide remark suggested that this engagement was just beginning. I stepped into my car, started it and began to back out of the parking space. The policeman flashed his lights to stop me. Had the policeman been a traffic warden or a tow truck driver, I would have been allowed to drive away. The reason why I believe is that as long as the parking inspector has not started to write the citation, they permit the driver to leave. The officer who stopped me did not have time to do anything other than…

drinking age protects young people. Indeed they are still incapable of accepting responsibilities included in the drinking of alcohol. In fact, according to DO SOMETHING.org, 5,000 people under the age of twenty-one die each year from alcohol-related car crashes, homicides, suicides, alcohol poisoning, and other injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning. In contrast, lowering the alcoholic drinking age from 21 to 18 will irresponsibly allow a greater segment of the population to drink…

cat would’ve envied. Why did his wife have to give him the mongrel today? The light refused to change. Huck thought that he might just barrel through the traffic like some mad bull, then reconsidered it; he reasoned that mass murder wouldn’t be the best late excuse when he got to that…

Cell phone use and driving has been a highly discussed topic in the past ten years. While cell phone use is almost unanimous, the danger of being distracted while driving has lead many states to ban the use of hand held cell phones while in the car. Passing laws that require hands free devices such as blue tooth to keep your attention on the road. While it is not a guarantee that this is totally safe it lowers the risk of loosing attention while driving. This is due to how our brain codes…