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    you from preventable demised. It’s not rocket science to put on a seatbelt. It’s not like it takes forty-five minutes to put on a seatbelt. Putting on a seatbelt rarely takes less than five seconds. Forty thousand people die each year from car accidents according to the Oklahoma.edu. The the cause of those deaths were not wearing a seatbelt. Are we that stupid that we can not take less than five seconds to put on a seatbelt that can save our lives. Let's put on our seat belt and live a worry…

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    After researching information from the textbook and websites provided, I learned very many important facts. One fact that really left an impression on me was from cdc.gov and it states, “In 2013, 424,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver…” To me this is such a horribly large number. Even worse it says that 3,154 people were killed. Since 2011 the number has increased by 10%. If this pattern continues then the number will only get larger. These facts makes…

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    burst into flames and exploded killing one of the boys. On page one it states the vehicle “had been noticeably weaving across the lanes of the expressway just before it hit a retaining wall and burst into flames.” I can relate as I have been in a car accident, not as devastating as the one shown in the novel but terrifying nonetheless. One bleak summer day my cousin Kevin, and my friend Carlos, decided to go along with me for a ride. Kevin who was 18 and could drive allowed me to drive in his…

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    On November 8th, our very own Hazelwood High School students, Andrew Jackson, 17, B.J. Carson, 16, Robert Washington, 17, and Tyrone Mills, 17, were in a tragic car crash accident after a Hazelwood High School basketball game killing Robert Washington. Police say, the source of the crash was drinking and driving. As the boys were celebrating by drinking,, the driver (Andrew Jackson) had become intoxicated. Not fully alert, Jackson crashed the four-door chevy into a wall of a building located…

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    meet friends, or to work. Unfortunately, According to AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, between the years 1995 to 2004, there were about thirty-one thousand teenagers’ ages fifteen to seventeen years-old that were involved in fatal accidents. One-third of those accidents killed teen drivers and the other two-thirds killed the passengers or other vehicles. I believe the teen driving age should be raised because teenagers don’t have much responsibility, enough experience with driving,…

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    Contents 4.1 1 Identify and explain the common causes for the in- service failure of components like engine overheating, break failure, shredding of tyres and composite body panel failure. 1 4.2 Explain the in service conditions that contributes to the failure of semi metallic disc brakes in a SUV 3 There are many reasons which can contribute to the failure of semi metallic disc brakes: 3 4.3 4 Identify the components which fail due to creep and fatigue loading in the heavy motor vehicle(HMV)…

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    Teen Driving Tyler Abraham Trant 6th period 5.23.17 The amount of teen driving accidents are rising. 60% of teen car crashes are due to distractions. Teen driving is a problem that can lead to car crashes and fatal events. Distractions can be one of the main reasons of teen driving accidents. Texting and driving is the main one. 1.6 million crashes are caused by texting and driving each year. Texting and driving is 6 times as likely to cause fatal events than…

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    from the phone on the other drivers face.” Seven years ago, a former high-school football star named Fletcher Cleaves life changed forever. Cleaves was about to attend college on a gridiron scholarship, but everything changed after he was in a car accident. Fletcher was left paralyzed from the chest down, his life now going in a totally new direction, all because of one decision a person made. This is one of many examples that shows us that through the progression of cell phone technology,…

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    to come. At the end of all this I had two broken ribs and some bruising, I also learned an important lesson that if you’re going to speed you never snapchat to. But in all seriousness I learned that speeding and texting is not worth it. The accident gave me a new outlook on things, because knowing that I could have been seriously hurt or even died that night made me realize life is too short to do dumb…

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    Distracted Driving Cause

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    can cause you to crash, and be involved in an accident. The causes of road accidents are: distracted drivers, speeding, and driving under the influence. The main cause of road accidents is distracted drivers. Using technology devices while driving is very dangerous. Technological devices such as cellphone contribute to road accidents because it distracts the driver’s attention from the road, and upcoming traffic, which eventually can cause a car accident. Also, when the driver is reaching over…

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