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Distracted Driving Today’s drivers have developed bad habits that can cause accidents or even fatal crashes. The road is shared by all different types of drivers including senior citizens and young people, foreign drivers and drivers with no licenses. All these people have different skills, behaviors and moods. In fact, many young drivers do not care about other people on the road and do not realize the real danger of their bad habits. For example, cars are switching from one lane to the other…

The Consequences of Driving While Texting When was the last time you checked your cellular device? How would you have reacted to a message? Would you check the message while you are driving? Well Most people do, traffic accidents are the highest cause for death, and texting while driving is the reasons why these accidents occur so frequently. Although people have some basic understanding of the risks of driving while texting, they still text anyways. “In the Wall Street Journal, it is a fact…

About eight years ago, a driver decided to send a text while driving and lost control of his car. That driver ended up hitting my mom’s car, causing a near fatal accident, sending her to the hospital. Due to the accident, my mom’s hip went into her spine, making her unable to walk for a few weeks. She luckily was able to make a good recovery, but she still has continuous back problems till this day. However, my mom is not the only one to get injured do to a driver’s reckless decision to text…

The 2012 popular romantic film The Vow, directed by Michael Sucsy, and 2005 well regarded Australian novel The Story of Tom Brennan, written by J. C. Burke, both capture and explore similar key themes. The Vow follows Leo and his wife Paige after a tragic car accident causes Paige to lose all her memory of her life with Leo. The Story of Tom Brennan follows Tom whose brother, Daniel, is sent to jail after causing a car accident while under the influence of alcohol. Both texts, that display the…

On the road, you can will see many drivers going beyond the speed limit, these drivers are risking danger to themself and other people on the road. Yet most of them do it anyway, they like how the thrill of the speed makes them feel, making them want to have more power and to excel in speed. This is how some of the many car accidents are created, there are people who are innocent and others who are of fault for the accident. In the book Of Mice And Men, the author Steinbeck uses Curley and…

China’s Bystander Problem In 2011, a two-year-old toddler named Yueyue from Foshan, China, was hit by a van on the road. Subsequently, eighteen passers-by walked away indifferently without taking any action to help her, despite her evident agony and need for medical attention. In the seven minutes it took for someone to finally bring Yueyue off the road, she had already been hit by another vehicle. Yueyue eventually succumbed to her injuries. This incident shocked the world and similar…

My Story Several years ago I experienced a panic attack while driving down the freeway with my family in the car. I had to pull over and let my wife drive. It was a very embarrassing time for me to say the least. Even worse, I started experiencing anxiety every time I drove with someone in the car. When I finally had had enough, I decided to do something about my problem. Using imagery, I sat in my favorite comfortable chair at home and closed my eyes. I called out to the anxiety monster and…

CRASH!!!!! That's the sound you will hear if you text and drive. I think people should not text and drive. If everyone has an addiction to texting and driving than everyone will always be in a lot of trouble. Don't text and drive that is why you shouldn't text and drive. If you text and drive you can get in a bad car crash, it's worse than drunk driving, you can get the people around you in really bad danger as well as yourself. One reason you shouldn't text and drive is it can get you in a…

Every single day there is a car accident somewhere in the world. It might be a minor accident which led to a little dent in the vehicle or it’s an accident that caused injuries and possible death. Why does this happen? Because people have developed reckless driving habits. The three main things that are contributing are texting and driving, drinking and driving, and the lack of experience and not following the law. Now how are these three things contributing to the increase of reckless driving…

“Traffic accidents kill around 1,240,000 people annually in the world, or at least one person for every 30 seconds” said Mr. Kong Sovann, representative of Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP). Traffic accident is known as the most common problem in Cambodia which results in a serious injury or death. In Cambodia, there are at least 5 people die from traffic accident or 15 people suffer from a serious injury per day. In order to prevent traffic accident, people should learn and…