National Transportation Safety Board

behind by other vehicles while they are on the road. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, there were 1.7 million rear-end crashes across the U.S. in 2012. These accidents resulted in 500,000 injuries and 1,700 deaths. In order to cut down on rear-end collisions, automakers have developed crash avoidance technologies, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is planning to add to its recommended safety list. Common causes of rear-end collisions As is the case…

Introduction Kapolei city is located on Oahu’s south shore, “about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Honolulu.” An area once of agricultural land cultivated with sugarcane and pineapple, Kapolei has now grown exponentially and developed “as an urban center, second to Honolulu” (Hawaii Travel Guide, 2015). According to the City & County of Honolulu (2007), Kapolei has a population of more than 101,000, with a projected increase of nearly 64% over the next two decades. Kapolei is identified as…

We live in a world where transportation makes up the basis of our lives. We use transportation to move people and goods from one place to the next while improving the direct approach to safety for the public. However, when a transit disaster threatens the security and safety of our well being, we need the responsible party and emergency crews to step up and facilitate the disaster quickly and efficiently. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation of the Amtrak train accident…

attend a cell. Research has been conducted on the issue and results have shown that cell phone use whether texting or driving is one of the leading causes of road accidents all over the world. According to one study, “A recent survey by the National Safety Council found that 26 percent of all car accidents were caused by a driver using a cell phone, but remarkably attributed only five per cent to texting while driving.” (Gorman) Studies have proved that so many lives are lost every year due to…

CHAPTER 2 INCIDENT CHRONOLOGY The Chronology of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Incident The timeline of this incident will be based on the ‘National Transportation Safety Board Marine Accident Report’. In the year of 1989 of March 22 (11.35pm), the Exxon Valdez arrived at the berth 5, Aleyska Marine Terminal to load a cargo of Alaska North Slope crude oil. Figure 2.1: The Exxon Valdez (Shigenake, G. 2014) The total load of 1.3 Million barrels of oil took approximately a day to complete filling…

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Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport is classified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a primary, small hub airport (U.S. Department of Transportation, 2014). Blue Grass serves over one million passengers each year and occupies approximately 1,000 acres. The airport offers commercial flights to destinations worldwide and also provides a variety of corporate and general aviation services including U.S. Customs cargo inspection, flight instruction, charter aircraft, airplane maintenance,…

twenty-three passengers died because of the collision (Steiner, 2012, p. 342). Sanchez had a history of minor violations and had a lengthy history of making phone calls and texting while operating the train on the day before the accident. The National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) surmised an inattentiveness to traffic signals while violating company policy on texting while operating a train. This discovery…

"Seat Belt Laws Are Unnecessary." Transportation, edited by Louise Gerdes, Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010523219/OVIC?u=pub_ovrc&xid=9969f9bb. Accessed 4 Apr. 2017. Originally published as "Unbuckling Seat Belt Laws…

Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suddenly collapsed. 145 people were injured, and thirteen died. This case study is based on an investigation of material evidence provided by the NASA Safety Center(NSC), National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and a full-scale load rating of the bridge superstructure. Proximate (Direct) Cause: Gusset plates finally fractured by the former bridge heavy construction and renovations materials,…