National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

mortality and is a contributing factor in another 25%.2 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states that in 2011, 21,253 occupants of passenger vehicles died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. Of the 21,253 total occupants killed, 44% (9439) were restrained and 56% were unrestrained at the time of the crash. It is estimated that as of 2011, 194 million air-bag-equipped passenger vehicles were on the road. Airbags are safety devices that are constructed of fabric and are…

education. This makes drivers education fall short because many people don 't take it for cost reasons. It is imperative that new drivers get an appropriate level of practice so that they do not cause injury to themselves and others. Also, to help the safety efforts, cops are cracking down on texting while driving. This is mostly a teen problem because they are the ones that are more bound to their phones and social media. The article, Minnesota Cops Cracking down on Texting While…

Introduction Our mission is to support and advance the emergency medical dispatch professional ensuring that the public’s need of health related emergencies are coordinated rapidly and safely with the most appropriate effective medical response. The communication industry is changing more rapidly than most agencies can keep up with, and Emergency Medical Dispatch is the most effective and economically feasible advancement for the services response. Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) is a…

Wednesday, Tom went to bed at 3 a.m. Also, let 's not forget the fact that he has to wake up at 7 a.m. in order to make it to his Psychology 1 class at 8 a.m. If you calculate the hours of sleep he will get, it is four hours! As reported by the National Sleep Foundation, “the average adult needs seven to nine hours of sleep each night” (Boyd). We are all…

The question of whether or not it would be in the best interest of the United States to lower the minimum legal drinking age has been debated for decades. Every state has the ability of establishing their individual drinking ages, and all separately have them set at 21. Within the time frame of the late 1960’s and the 1970’s, every state lowered its drinking age to 18. In July of 1982, Ronald Reagan passed the Minimum Drinking Age Act, forcing all states to maintain a minimum drinking age of 21.…

Ethical Decision-Making Steps Due to customer demand for sub-compact cars, and the competition they were having with Germany and Japan. Ford decided that it too would enter the sub-compact car market and would compete with these countries so that they wouldn’t monopolize the American market. So in 1970, Ford Motor Company introduced its new automobile, the Ford Pinto. President Lee Iacocca was intent on getting the Pinto in showrooms by 1971, or within two years and pushed production through.…

The topic of multitasking is important for all ages to get a hold off, but more specifically the age group of people currently finding themselves in college. Multitasking can come to fruition in many different scenarios, including learning in the classroom, while studying in the library, doing homework in your dorm room, or even driving down the street. Along with these different scenarios, a person can find themselves doing different things to distract them such as spending their time looking…

INTRODUCTION For any business organization to be successful in its competitive environment, there are certain qualities that must be ensured. The question of what is right and wrong within the organization plays a significant role in determining the image and integrity of a business organization in its environment, which is the main idea behind business ethics. The term business ethics could be used in different ways. It is a form of applied ethics that aim to evaluate the ethical principles…

The three girls died because the Ford Pinto’s fuel tank ruptured from the collision and burst into flames. This was not the first incident where a Pinto had caught flames. The Pinto was being investigated and there was some debate about the safety of the Ford Pinto, especially its vulnerability to catching fire in low-speed rear-end collisions, (Textbook). Another fatality caused by the Pinto’s fuel tank was on May 28, 1972, when Mrs. Gray, accompanied by 13-year-old, Richard Grimshaw, were…

Alcohol is one of the worlds most abused substance in the world. Believe it or not alcohol is mostly abused by minors and the numbers are increasing. Minors are more likely to binge drink and abuse alcohol than of age limits . Which is why it’s important to maintain the legal drinking age limit of twenty-one. If the drinking age was lowered then the percentage rate of alcohol accessibility to minors and alcohol substance abuse would most likely increase. The brain is an amazing organ in the…