Motor vehicle

Using a motor vehicle has been a necessity the has become vital to our generation to get from place to place. People have relied on vehicle transportation for many years, and not until recently have people start to question whether or not everyone should be able to operate a motor vehicle, including young teenagers. There has been many reports and statistics about how teens are the leading cause of automobile accidents. According to RMIIA (Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association) it…

For Americans between the ages of 8 and 34, motor vehicle accidents are the number one cause of death. Motor vehicles have always been dangerous, especially once their use became widespread. Motor vehicles used to be much more dangerous, especially before the three-point seat belt became the standard in 1958. As the three-point seat belt became more commonplace, there were fewer and fewer car accident fatalities. Some people, for some unknown reason, do not wear their seat belt, even though it…

Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Motor Vehicle Related Trauma Tiffany Tirico Liberty University Abstract Motor vehicle accidents are one of the most significant forces for physiological, social, and spiritual concerns amongst trauma in the United States. On average 90 people per day are killed by a motor vehicle related accident and 2.3 million people are injured in the United States every year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, traffic fatalities have…

Carjacking Facts Robbery Prevention Advice Carjacking is Robbery Carjacking is the violent form of motor vehicle theft. It is a serious threat to our personal safety because the thief uses force and fear to rob our car from us. Sometimes the car owner or other occupants are kidnapped during a carjacking, and if lucky will be dropped off nearby unharmed. The worst case scenario occurs when you are transported to a secondary crime scene, which is usually more dangerous than the original…

When I was a little girl my mom never let me ride on a motorcycle. When I was an exchange student in Germany, everything changed. During my first three months there I had already tried new food, met new people, and started to learn a new language. I was feeling invincible from all these new experiences. I wanted to try everything possible during that year, because I wanted to keep this phenomenal feeling up. One day my host father, Burkhard, invited me to go on a tour that was a tradition for…

These people died to send a text message to a person which interfered with their driving awareness. Due to them taking their mind off of driving they end up drifting into the other lane for a head on collision or rear-ending an innocent vehicle. And those innocent people in the car could be having a great day and all of a sudden they get slammed into by a driver that is not paying attention. Because the driver was distracted they could have easily taken a life of a man, woman, or child.…

The same can be said for the engineering of motor vehicles. From the simple A to B cars that last forever to land-speed record breaking rocket cars. Trying to limit vehicle engineering is like trying to limit the most basic of human abilities. The only thing that comes from restriction is further innovation. Todd Griffith from blog.cargurus quotes a few car…

Today the drivers of America are not as distracted as they used to be in the 70’s. Alcohol is still the leading cause of vehicle accidents in The United States. Speeding is the second leading cause of all traffic accidents. Drivers do not pay attention to their surroundings or in other words, they have no situational awareness of things around them. Operating a vehicle is serious venture that depends upon all the human senses to do so effectively and safely. We need to improve our driving skills…

To determine if Ms. Spano was operating her vehicle while intoxicated the court will apply a four- factored test and the relevant Indiana code to the facts. After applying the factors, the court will probably weigh in favor of Ms. Spano operating the car. Ind. Code 9-30-5-3 states, “… a person who operates a vehicle while intoxicated…”. Ind. Code 9-13-2-118 defines operator as “driver or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway...” The Hiegel test helps determine…

domestic vehicle they may think otherwise of their choice of vehicles. The main question still stands as if people should be allowed to import domestic cars into the U.S. Here are a few factors that the owner will have to deal with while importing a car. The first thing many new importers expect is to just pay the online price and expect drive the car once it is imported. That however is not the case. At one national vehicle importer it states that they charge $5,500 to import a vehicle.…