National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Texting and Driving Texting and driving is one of the biggest issues in the United States. Texting and driving is very dangerous and can take your life away. People are distracted while they are driving by using their cell phones to text, call and even check their e-mails. Many teenagers’ car crashes were from distracted driving with the use of their smartphones when they are texting while driving. When you are distracted while you are driving it takes your eyes off the road and you are not…

When the eyes are focused down on the phone, they have to be taken off the road. This leaves plenty of time for the driver to swerve off course just enough to hit a pedestrian, or fail to take notice to a red light or approaching car. This distracted driver could hit an innocent bystander walking down the side walk, run a red light and cause an accident, or slam into the back of another car because another (more attentive driver) stopped at the red light. The differing situations go on and on,…

that don 't con-sume marijuana. It’s also an illegal drug which violates the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Which the Federal Government disapprove not only because it violates the law but the serious harm it can do to the economy and cause of safety reasons. I believe that legalizing marijuana should not happen because of the effect it can do to children and the health issues that are long term effects. The reasons why marijuana should be legalized is because first it can help give the…

they get their parking pass and require students to take Drivers Ed as a class. People need to know and see that if they are not fully paying attention while driving it can cause other people’s lives as well as their own. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration researched and found in 2008 alone, there were 5,870 fatalities and an estimated 515,000 people were injured in police reported crashes in which at least one driver was distracted (“Teens and Distracted Driving”). A person…

percent of adults think lowering the drinking age will make alcohol more accessible to those under the age of 21, and nearly half believe it would increase binge drinking among teens.” These adults couldn’t be more correct. According to Support 21, a national organization in support of the minimum legal drinking age, alcohol is the number one youth drug problem in America and more teens die from an alcohol-related incident or disease than from the use of any other illicit drug. With an increase…

from the wreckage. The accident happened less than a month ago, but accidents like these continue to happen everyday. And the primary cause of almost all of them is sleep deprivation, which is the lack of sleep. You see, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration equates drowsy driving with drunk driving, and while there is an easy way to measure intoxication, there is no way of measuring drowsiness. So even though sleeping behind the wheel is illegal, proper prosecution for the…

desired ‘high.’ The amount of THC in different samples can greatly vary. Some strains of the drug have contents of THC levels that are as low as 0.3 percent, but some show contents that are as great as 20 percent. Reports by The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that, on average, the THC levels in a strain of marijuana generally range from 1 to 5 percent. Charlotte’s Web, named after Charlotte, is the name for the specific medical solution of Marijuana that Charlotte takes.…

Situational Assessment When an organization or business recognizes a crisis is occurring, the first step is to convene the Crisis Management Team (Crandall and Spillan, 2013). Once the team has been assembled, an overview of the situation must be obtained. The Crisis Management Team (CMT) has to review all the information, events, and knowledge regarding the crisis. This review and processing of information is considered the situational assessment. Through the situational assessment, the CMT…

Virginia Beach Emergency Operation Plan ESF 10 Analysis Hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incidents are dangerous types of emergencies that can turn into a major disaster. Despite, many cities that run along the Atlantic Ocean become divested by tropical storms and flooding, HAZMAT related emergencies are a close second. In Virginia Beach, VA hazard risk are delineated into four categories: Critical Hazard – High Risk, Critical Hazard – Moderate Risk, Noncritical Hazard – Low Risk, and Negligible.…

hemp gasoline and the car itself was constructed from hemp that Ford grew on his own land. In fact, the cars had hemp plastic panels, whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel (Hempbas…). A census done by the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) records, on average more than one hundred people die every day is car accidents. Obviously, if using hemp provided better protection against accidents, there could be thousands of lives saved every year. Increasing, the…