American or European: Which Roadway kills More Drivers?

As much as 33000 fatalities happen each year in the United States by the cause of car crashes. People don’t realize the number of crashes occurring because of people that don’t know how to drive. El Paso is the number 8 city in Texas with fatal crashes. And it all goes back to how they got the privileges for driving in the first place.

Death among U.S. teens is led by vehicle crashes. In the year of 2013, around 2,163 teens were killed between the ages of 16-10 in the United States. Around 243,243 were treated in emergency departments for injuries that they suffered in motor vehicle accidents. Around 75% of teen drivers suffer in these accidents due to 3 major mistakes. Those major mistakes include a lack of scanning the road, distractions in the vehicle, and also going to fast for the conditions of the road.

It seems each year that the automobile accidents increase, and there are a high number of death and injuries that follow. Records show that nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes and 20-50 million are injured. More than half of all traffic death occur among young adults 15-44 years of age( ). Accidents can happen at any time and can be caused by many reasons such as rain, speeding, drug, or alcohol. An automobile accident is what brought the 16-year-old boy to the emergency to be care for by the medical staff there. The patient was seen by the ER staff for several hours, and he was admitted later in the inpatient unit for observation. The next morning when staff tried waking the patient he was died.

Background and Audience Relevance: According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2015, about thirty-five hundred people were killed, and four hundred thousand were injured in car crashes.

Texas traffic accidents leads the nation in car deaths. In some ways, the large number of crashes is to be expected; Texas is a very large state. However, the Texas death rate of 1.44 deaths per hundred million miles travelled also exceeds the national average of 1.28 deaths per hundred million miles travelled. In this proposal, I will provide accurate statistics of last year’s records and then provide a possible solution to reduce fatalities.

Method Summary (important info only) - Students (150) were shown a video of a multiple-car accident due to one car not stopping at a stop sign and making a right turn into the main traffic. The video is less than one minute long and the multiple-car accident happens in a period of four seconds. Afterwards, the students are given a ten item questionnaire with a diagram labeling the scene. Questions asked are either about how fast the car was going when it ran the stop sign or when it turned right. Seventy-five received the stop sign question and seventy-five received the turned right question, the last question was neutral.

Teenagers and underage drivers, who drive under the influence of alcohol, are associated to the total traffic fatalities California. The rates for underage drinking and crash fatalities in California, in relation to the total traffic fatalities, have been paralleled over the years. In 2012, the total alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in California were 803. Of those, 97 were underage drivers, (“Drunk Driving,” 2012).Vehicle fatalities alone account for a large number of deaths reported in the state. Averages of about 3,000 deaths were reported annually between the years of 2008 – 2012. Table 1 reviews the total number of traffic fatalities reported in California for the years previously mentioned, and it compares that

Extensive studies have considered the role of public policies in reducing fatalities among passenger car occupants, but not amongst specific types of vehicles, specifically, motorcycles. Also, it is worth a note that research on the impact of socioeconomic factors in road safety have received very few to little emphasis within the US. For example, Tsai et al sought to fill these gap by looking at the effect of both socioeconomic factors and public policy on highway safety in the US [6]. This study confirmed that it is important to consider the influence of socioeconomic and public policy factors on highway safety. Additionally, research involving these factors in specific relation to motorcycle safety were found to be very limited. Most research relevant to this topic focused only on helmet use which is only a miniscule portion of what this study intends to incorporate. However, one study did attempt to model the effect of public policy on motorcycle safety, but limitations existed within the dataset and the study itself which was conducted on a macro-level [7]. Therefore, this section will introduce the factors that were found to be significant in previous research, and will define a new series of factors to study the relationship between these predictors and the dependent variable, crashes

Motor vehicle accidents are the most frequently witnessed catastrophes in the United States. With New York’s population growing by the minute, the probability of the occurrence of an automobile accident is also increasing. While the accident rate causing serious injuries and fatalities on the roads of the United States has relatively declined in the recent years, the legacy of car accidents claiming lives and causing irreversible injuries continue to top the list in New York. A major number of these occurrences are observed to involve motorcycles, large trucks and pedestrians.

According to the 2011 South Dakota Motor Vehicle Crash Study, there were 17,362 motor vehicle accidents and 5,485 of these crashes resulted in an injury or death in 2011. In South Dakota, the fatality rate of car accidents compared to national average is slightly above, at 1.2%. The national average is 1.1 % (Department of Public Health). This shows that there is a high risk of injury when operating a motor vehicle in the state of South Dakota. This study assesses the causes of many accidents in South Dakota and the prevalence of injury and death in

Primarily, trucks have a very crucial role to play as far as transportation is concerned. They move cargo from one place to the other throughout the United States. As per research, it is believed that approximately one-ninth of traffic fatalities in the United States have either directly or indirectly involved large trucks. The research further claims that 3% of all accidents results from large trucks. The later has been facilitated by increasing numbers of trucks that are registered annually. This study will talk about the characteristics and contributory causes of truck crashes. To facilitate this, the paper will examine data from the Fatal Crash department through its website. There are some factors that contribute directly to truck crashes. Some of the factors include the use of cellular phone while driving, disobeying traffic rules and lack of warning signs along the roads. These factors can be addressed through sensitizing truck drivers on the importance of safe driving.

The literature is based on past and current motor vehicle collisions. A fatal vehicle collision is one of the leading causes of death, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. The death toll is horrific. Every minute, over 1,000 people killed during their commute to work, school or vacationing (Vock, 2013). This is an average of 3,287 fatalities per day. Not to mention that 20 to 50 million people are injured or become disabled. The report shows that half of all road traffic deaths occur between the ages of 15 to 44 (DPS, 2016). As a result, most motorists is age group is inexperienced drivers or either making irresponsible decisions while traveling on the roads and highways. Driving safely on the road can spare commuter’s lives.

In the U. S., injuries that are related to motor vehicle accidents are responsible for the death of more kids and young adults than any additional one cause alone (The Community Guide, 2014). Additionally, automobile collision is the major reason for death due to injury for individuals of every age (The Community Guide, 2014). Roughly 33,000 individuals lost their lives from being in an automobile accident in 2010 (The Community Guide, 2014). This equals to 90 individuals every day. Also, a million other received injuries from motor vehicle accidents that were not deadly, according to the Community Guide (2014). Each year the expenses associated with motor vehicle accidents is over 99 billion dollars in lost of production and medical expenses (The Community Guide, 2014). The federal, state, and local government all play a role in the prevention of motor vehicle accidents.

More than 1.2 million people are killed in road accidents, worldwide, and every year. Out of these 1.2 million, 90% occurred in low- and middle-income countries (Peden et al., 2004). Africa has the highest fatality rate in relation to her population (28.3 per 100,000 populations. This Africa’s rate is substantially higher than motorized countries in the world, such as those in North America (12.1 to 16.2 per 100,000 populations) (Peden et al., 2004). For its 4 per cent of the world’s motor vehicles, the African road fatality share exceeds 10% of the total fatalities (GRSP, 2009; Jacobs, 2000). The road traffic safety is becoming one of the tenth killers in developing countries, unlike the developed world, where the proportion of vehicle population is almost 90% of the world.

Accidents are very common in big cities as there are many modes of transport and roads are narrow and crowded. Every day we come across news about such accidents that claim lives and cause casualties. Sadly, driver error remains the most common cause of road accidents; such as Speeding, Drink Driving, Seat Belt Wearing, Careless Driving, At-work, Inexperience, Failed to Look Properly, Loss of Control, Failed to Judge Other Person 's Path/Speed.  I was a witness to one.