Hazardous Types Of Drivers

While the rules are easy to break, and the motorist is often the one held responsible, it is still important that all who use the road are aware of the laws and the consequences for breaking them.

The first type of drivers is reckless drivers they tend to be the most dangerous drivers. For instance, you can be driving down the highway doing the speed limit and two cars race past you. We consider racing as reckless driving. These drivers are

If you’ve had any driving experience then you know that on the road you will come across many different characters behind the wheel. For better or for worse you try not to judge these people while driving, but sometimes their foolish or horrid driving skills can’t be overlooked. Having to share the road with other people not only gives you an idea on what kind of person they are based by how they drive, but it also gives you a reason whether to be kind or a middle-finger waving driver. The most common personalities you will encounter on the road are the overly cautious “grandma” drivers, the angry drivers with “road rage”, and the clueless distracted drivers.

Driver’s behavior is crucial for road safety and traffic management. Following road rules, courtesy and patience to other road users and to the passengers, strictly observing speed limits, and keeping away from aggressive and offensive behavior are some of the ideal behavior of a responsible driver, especially to the public utility vehicles. But often times these behaviors were disregarded by the majority of the jeepney drivers earning them a non-reputable image in today’s time.

They tend to have a “me first” attitude on the road; all they care about is their destination and will remove any obstacles that gets in their way.Aggressive and dangerous drivers are very selfish and drive like they are the only car on the road.They blast music,always multitasks things, and pay very little attention to their surroundings. Also in most cases you'll find that these type of drivers love to text and drive. The most common bad habits they have are speeding, running red lights, tailgating,and cutting off other drivers. Aggressive drivers do things like not letting someone get in when they try to merge at the last minute to “teach them a lesson” or hitting the gas when the light turns yellow.They let aggression get the best of them while driving, which is not good. Aggressive and dangerous drivers are most likely to get into a car

The most common cause of wrong way driving is avoid U-turns .The drivers drove in wrong way driving into habit that do well often seen. Especially on the road, U-turns car is several kilometers away and don’t have u turn during the way even the drivers drove in wrong way, with traffic at a driveway is a risk that it will cause an accident. Convenience is the one reason that why people drive in wrong way driving because it probably go faster than go in direct way. And the third reason is Lack of Licensing & Experience this important for safety, accuracy every drivers must have licensing and experience before drive or ride a car . When some people don’t know about driving then they can’t drive in safety and drive in wrong

(Distraction) ADD or ADHD is a common disorder having the inability to pay attention. It is likely to be caused by a relative who was diagnosed, therefore having hereditary appearances. (Martin) Having a very little attention span can cause problems while in traffic. The statistics show 66% of traffic fatalities are caused by aggressive driving. The most likely group to exhibit aggressive driving are males under the age of nineteen. Out of the male side of the survey, 14.7% are distracted by eating or drinking something. 10.9% are from checking out other drivers. Only 9.5% are from conversations with a passenger. The women’s group had different distractions. The top distraction of 26.3% were kids. 16.6% was caused by putting on makeup. Combining both groups the biggest distraction was due to texting on the phone. Tailgating was the second most popular distraction with 60%. Multitasking was deemed to be a distraction by 54% of drivers. The lowest distraction was navigational issues with 9.5%. (Distracted Drivers) Stress is another factor believed to cause road rage.

In a world where there are so many vehicles driving around the streets it is very important for people to abide by traffic laws and to take precautions to ensure the safety and lives of everyone in the world. There are many different laws regarding traffic that can change depending on what country or state you are driving or even on the year, because new laws are always being created. As long as drivers remain aware of their surroundings and the law: accidents shouldn’t occur as much or as often as they do right now.

These types of driver tend to somehow allow everything to wander through their inconsiderate mind. One example of this dangerous driver tendencies is his frequent texting or playing with his phone while driving, leading to many unnecessary deaths and is the reason most states consider these distractions a crime. These drivers are worried about something somewhere in the wild-blue yonder instead of having their eyes glued to the situation in front of them! The definition of a distracted driver is often an individual who is constantly fooling around with something. Therefore, you can see why this category frightens me the

As more incidents of fatal motor accidents flood in and the death road toll of young people slowly increases, media moguls, concerned youths and the general community alike have expressed discontent to such reckless behaviour. In an imploring opinion piece, titled “Driving the Highway from Destruction!” (Place of publication: Ednews, Date: unknown), an astute student, Elly heart denounces such misconceptions imposed upon young people and vehemently argues for the change in public perceptions and values. In addition to this, with the two large images embedded in her article, the opinion piece suggests a clear contention: that all drivers, both young and experienced, should take greater care in ensuring our safety on the roads.

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.

Foreign Drivers. A stereotype used daily by kiwis to discriminate against tourists, travelers and other visitors to our country who are seen driving on our roads. This stereotype even applies to people who live in New Zealand who we can identify are from a different culture or ethnicity. Obviously, the negative repercussions of foreign drivers only applies to a very small portion of that population in our country and in fact most, foreign drivers are very safe, experienced and take extra care since they are driving in an unknown environment. However, we have all heard seen and even first-hand experienced some instances of foreign driving which makes us question whether the driver actually knows how to drive a car. Sometimes a foreign driver could be so clueless and unsafe, that we question “How did they get a license in the first place”.

Driver behavior is also cited as having a negative influence on participants’ cycling experience, as it is reported that some motorists are particularly violent towards cyclists and others are unaware of them and so did not leave the necessary space. For some participants, these experiences presented a barrier to on-road cycling. Due to the volume of traffic and the driver habits, cyclists are rushing, pushing on crowed roads. One interviewee told that “I don’t think it is just specific to this Jaffna area, it is nationwide. It is the totally different way of mind-set that they have in Jaffna.

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.

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