2.13 Relationship Between Speeding Behaviour And Safety

As the officer approached the passenger side window of my car I could only think the worst. I didn’t know if he was going to be tough on me or give me a break and let me off with a warning. The officer had me roll down the window, asked me for my license and registration, and asked me if I knew how fast I was going. To which I responded that I wasn’t aware and that I was simply running late to catch a train in Ronkonkoma. He responded with “So I guess that’s why you were speeding.” While he was back in the police car checking my papers and license, I could only keep my mind on the fact that I was now going to get a very expensive speeding ticket and that my plans for the entire day would be ruined. When he came back to my car he handed me my

This case came to be due to what transpired after a traffic stop by a New York State Police Officer. The Police Officer pulled over the driver due to speeding. The owner of the car was not present, but there were four men inside the vehicle including Roger Belton was the respondent in this case. The Police Officer smelled marijuana in the car. He also saw an envelope that might have contained the drug. The men inside the car were ordered to get out of the vehicle and were soon arrested for this possession. The men were separated, patted down and searched. The Police Officer proceeded to search the vehicle for other drugs and came across the passenger compartment. There the officer found Roger Belton's coat, which contained cocaine inside a pocket. Belton attempted to have the cocaine, which was found during the search, suppressed from the court. But this was rejected. Then the final state appellate went on to reverse the decision because the search of the passenger compartment and jacket should have never took place due to the nature of the arrest. The state went on to be granted certiorari and the decision was changed once again due to the general feeling that the warrantless search of the vehicle's compartment and jacket were justifiable because of the circumstances of the arrest.

Cars will try to cut in front of each other cars as fast as possible before realizing it had caused a crash that affects the delay. In March 2015, this girl’s car had slammed into my car because she was on her phone looking for the different route. Cell phones are one of the biggest of distraction to create reckless driving. The accident was just outside of Hennepin Tech on highway 169. Even though the road was pretty clear up of weather people tend not to never pay much attention. It’s the reason of being the rush and trying to get there first. Now my car is totally lost because of her being careless of not paying attention while driving. People need to stop getting heat up of being impatient while stuck in traffic, any careless mistake can easily happen to

The most prevalent form of transportation in the United States is by far the automobile. With so many vehicles on the road, effectively enforcing traffic laws is becoming more and more complex. The cost of reckless driving is astronomically high, both physically and financially. In 2007, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that speeding-related crashes cost society a staggering $40.4 billion per year, and speed was a major contributing factor in at least thirty-one percent of all fatal crashes (citation needed). Most drivers can agree that the United States needs to enforce speed laws because all drivers deserve to commute on safe roads. As technology advances, so do the methods for enforcing traffic laws. One of the newest methods of speed enforcement popping up all over the country is the use of

Wreck less driving is constantly on a rise these days with the demand for competition in employment and crowding of roadways due to all the fellow motorists in a hurry to get

Personally, I prefer to drive in a system that is enforced by police forces.In my opinion, this is safer.In China, most of traffic accidents are caused by speeding.In order to be safer, we should set the driver's safety speed limit.In winter, roads can be slippery, and it's dangerous to drive without speed limit.In addition, when a car is speeding, fuel consumption increases, making global warming worse.To put our safety first, and not to put freedom first, we need to limit speed.To sum up, I prefer the speed limit system, which is used in most countries around the world, and is a safer and more environmentally friendly

As the preceding Tables 5-8 depicted, five scenario factors were investigated. First, drivers at Path 1 have higher speed and low standard deviation of speed, standard deviation of lane deviation, and acceleration noise than other paths. Vehicles from the on-ramp before toll plaza (i.e., Paths 4 and 5), as shown in Figure 3 (a), have lower speed and higher dangerous behavior (i.e., standard deviation of speed, acceleration noise, and standard deviation of lane deviation) compared to Path 1 at all zones. It can be explained that vehicles from the on-ramp perform sudden lane changing maneuvers before and after the toll plaza. Additionally, vehicles from Path 3 which is driving through the express lanes to the off-ramp after the toll plaza have also lower speed and riskier behavior. This is because drivers are reducing vehicle’s speed to change lanes after the toll plaza. Furthermore, vehicles from Path 2 which is driving from mainline to cash toll payment and back to mainline have lower speed at and after the toll plaza, and riskier indicators at all zones due to speed variation and sudden lane changing before and after the toll plaza. Second, for signage, drivers who navigate in scenarios with Case 2 signage, which is adding the DMS sign at the on-ramp, removing the third overhead sign, and relocate the second overhead sign as shown in Figure 3 (b), exhibited lower speed variation after the on-ramp than drivers who perform scenarios of the base condition with the second and

Today in America, society has no respect for traffic laws. Somehow, they have forgotten the purpose of why traffic laws where proposed on the first place. For instance, one of the most common laws broken by every driver is speeding. In Fact, the need to speed to get to your destination can be thrilling and hypnotizing for someone. However, speeding can cause a horrific collision between another vehicle and yourself. Also, according to Teens in the Driver Seat, “About 27 percent of young driver and passenger deaths occur in speed-related crashes.” Therefore, is it important to follow traffic laws because it can insure the safety of yourself and others when handling a motor

From my very own high school, two girls were involved in an accident where their lives and futures were on the line. On a back road near home, listening to music, like most people find themselves doing at some point in their teen years, these girls thought nothing different of it than any other car ride. Upon hitting loose gravel, the driver lost control of the car and ran off the road. The two girls in this case suffered significantly different consequences which affected their senior year respectively. The driver had only minor bruises and continued her senior year and volleyball season with no restrictions. The passenger was ejected through the sunroof and her severe injuries kept her from participating in her final year of her favorite sport. Spot the difference? The passenger had not buckled in before the ride.

Automobiles! You just have to have one in this fast paced world! In the United States, or maybe just in a popular city such as Los Angeles or New York, automobiles are necessary. People need to move from point A to point B. These points can be as close as a few hundred feet or even range up to a few hundred miles! When making these trips safety is a priority. There are hundreds of thousands of automobiles on the roads across the nation and if safety was not considered, thousand would be injured or even killed daily! Automobile safety has come a long way over the years and as every day goes by more and more new ways are created to keep drivers, and their passengers,

Roadways are, unfortunately, the scene where preventable urban fatalities take place. Pedestrians unknowingly crossing busy streets; drivers distracted by their phones;

Because most traffic accidents and corresponding fatalities can be reduced through effective program development, monitoring, and evaluation, a comprehensive public policy can save lives. The difference in fatalities between developing nations and wealthy nations is the clearest indicator that road safety measures and programs do reduce traffic fatalities. Although expensive to implement initially, road safety improvements go a long way toward reducing the burden on the medical care system, which is overburdened by dealing with traffic-related accidents and deaths. Through simply assessing local problems such as unsafe roads; implementing laws related to bicycle and pedestrian safety or driver education; and providing ongoing program evaluation, it will be possible to reduce traffic accidents and fatalities in communities around the world.

The road environment is divided into three factors: personal factor, road environmental factor, and vehicle factor. In relation to traffic accidents, personal, road environmental, and vehicle factors are known to contribute 93%, 34%, and 13% of traffic accident approximately. Among the three factors, the road environmental factor affects traffic accidents via geometric road structure and damage or defects of road (safety) facilities. In appropriate road environmental factors can jeopardy the balance between driver and vehicle thereby causing a risk factor to traffic safety. Furthermore, a condition of road pavements can also be highly important to influence traffic accidents. In particular, a relationship of road pavement conditions with traffic accidents can be meaningful and ensuring a friction factor at the same road condition is highly important. A change in road pavement surface can be caused by heavy vehicle traffic and poor quality of mixtures. The change in pavement surface not only increases a risk of accidents as it can prevent safety vehicle driving due to inadequate draining during rainfall but also degrade skid resistance significantly due to standing water in the road, resulting in hydroplaning and making vehicle steering difficult to increase a risk of accidents. The analysis on the traffic accidents for three years (2013– 2015) showed that fatality of traffic accidents. Road crashes are increasing at alarming rate globally, the causes for this may vary such

In India, the percentage of killing of people by accidents is far more than those by diseases. A survey said that approximately 45% of people are died due to road accidents. [1,2] Nowadays, life style has become very fast and busy. People are always in hurry. An unlucky event such as road

Apart from the private sector, driver behavior is also a main cause of accidents. Director Prof Dr Radin Umar Radin Sohadi comment that most accidents occurred due to selfish and inconsiderate attitude, the reckless driving, indiscriminate lane switching, inability to overtake in time and dangerous overtaking (Chua, 2006). Driver nowadays seems to have very inconsiderate attitude compared with last time. Some drivers will impaired driving such as racing in the road, and due to their inconsiderate attitude, they do not care as long as they reach their destination in the shortest time. More than that, some drivers also tend to take chances to make unsafe lane changes frequently. They do not care where they are, how their action will effected other drivers, they just change their lane dangerously and unexpectedly without considerate the consequence. Moreover, there are even a small group of drivers that have deliberate obstruction, which prevent other drivers to move their vehicles. They parked in places that blocked other vehicles to move. The common places are double line, yellow box and