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are reported each year due to cell phone usage while driving. One out of every four car accidents is caused by texting and driving. It takes only five seconds to view a simple simple text message. If that message is viewed while driving at a speed of 55 miles per hour, you will have driven the length of a football field without looking at the road. Texting while driving is six times more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk. Cell phone distraction rates are alarmingly high due to the…

1. This announcement has been made to warn Ford Kuga 1.6 owners that their cars could be a danger to their safety and that they should take their car to a dealer as soon as possible to sort out this problem. 2. 2.1. The National Consumer Commission is the regulator of consumer business interaction in South Africa. They ensure the economic welfare of consumers and they promote a fair market place for consumer products. 2.2. To ensure that consumers are receiving safe and good quality products…

The Adoration of Jenna Fox begins with two weeks after 17-year-old Jenna Fox wakes up from a year and a half long coma. She was in a coma because she was in a major car accident. She does not remember anything and her family has tapes for her to watch about her life to see if her memories will come back. She watches her tape called “Year Three/Jenna”. In this tape she learns that she used to live somewhere else besides her current residency in northern California. She then watches the tape of…

Life can change in an instant. Driving on the back roads in Falmouth, Massachusetts may seem like a casual drive for John Busby, until one day he is shot in the jaw. The windshield broken, glass everywhere, and blood pouring out uncontrollably on the wheel. J. Busby experienced this life changing moment that not only affected him, but his whole family. John and Cylin Busby reach out to readers using a unique memoir structure, effective poetic devices, and flashbacks. These specific attributes…

severely injured in vehicle accidents in their lifetime, and a good portion of these injuries may have been prevented if only the driver is wearing a seatbelt. Vehicle accidents can be life­threatening, and they often have a massive impact on the family and friends of those involved in the incident. So, why not take the extra second to buckle the seat belt so that these scenarios do not happen? That is the question that many people ask when someone is involved in such accidents. All drivers…

She Must Like a Male The commercial I chose to analyze is a Thai advertisement, it described a tough day which a taxi driver has experienced. At first, the commercial started at displaying that the driver has experienced lots of problems, such as customers who took the taxi without paying the fee, or customers who puked on the taxi, and the most dangerous one is that a robber was trying to rob and even beat the driver. After the driver back home with a bleeding face, a child appeared and asked…

Mr. Griffin was a pedestrian who was hit by a motor vehicle, traveling approximately 50 mph. EMS arrived on scene and he was unconscious. His Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was a “3”. He was transported to Detroit Receiving Hospital where is Glasgow Coma Scale in the ER was 7 or 8. He appeared to be un-kept and was wearing all black clothing with dreadlock like hair. His clothing and body were covered with scabies and bugs. Mr. Griffin was cleansed with lotion to kill the scabies and his hair was…

The study could not find any spillover effects due to the increase in speed but the creativity to try hypothesis tests deserve special mention. “Speed spillover” effect is present when the speed limit is different in different roads. The spillover effect is evident when the drivers may continue to drive fast in roads where the speed limit is not increased Steven M. Rock [18] studied the effect of 65 mph speed in Illinois and also support the general notion that increase in speed limit to 65 mph…

Imature teens are increasing car accidents. They are also increasing their injuries. Teens don't know much of the consequences that come with driving. They party and drink, and when they drive drunk, that's another wreck and death waiting to happen. A lot of teens just want a car to drive…

thousands of lives every year. In the last decade, over 68,000 teens have died in car crashes, often involving alcohol and distracted driving. (“Tips and Statistics”) If the United States were to raise the legal driving age to 19 it would decrease accidents caused from lack of experience and fatalities from distracted driving. The main leading cause in death among teens are fatal car crashes. Take for example sophomore Clayton Boen, a young basketball player who was killed in a vehicle being…