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Throughout this investigation, data collection and statistical analysis will be performed to determine the validity of the following claim; “for driving a car, quick reactions are the most important factor. Males will be better drivers than females because they have faster reaction times” (Michael, 2014). In terms of driving, the time it takes for an individual to react to stimulus will have a major impact on the outcome of the situation. In an emergency, a driver may be required to rapidly slam on the breaks or turn the steering wheel, however it the individuals reaction time is slower than average, the likelihood of a collision is much greater. For instance, when an individual with a

Seat belts should be required on school buses for a lot of foreseen reasons. Seatbelts can make school buses so much safer in so many different ways. One reason why seat belts should be required on school buses is that it will save students' lives. According to an article released by the “Today” show “About 440,000 school buses carry 24 million kids each and every day during the school year, which can be dangerous if the bus gets in a crash. Undoubtedly, school buses should be required to have seat belts if 24 million kids ride school buses each day.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), “in 2015, seat belt use in passenger vehicles saved an estimated 13,941 lives” (1). The NHTSA goes on to say that almost 30 million Americans still don’t use seat belts on a daily basis. Since vehicle accidents are among the leading causes of death in the United States and even the world, the argument to improve seat belt technology has increased dramatically. Researchers are often more concerned with whether or not people are wearing their seat belts, not the effectiveness of them, until now, although both are incredibly important. Seat belt safety, which is directly related to seat belt technology, has been shown to be increasingly ineffective because of the high severity

We have all heard the excuses before, "It's uncomfortable, I'm only going around the corner", I'd rather be thrown out of a car than be stuck in a seatbelt," and my favorite, "I'm a good driver I don't need to wear one." Well you may be a good driver but there are situations beyond your control such as bad weather, road conditions and not to mention other drivers that can affect your safety. Seat belts can mean the difference between life and death in an auto accident. Wearing a seat belt every time you enter a vehicle is not only the smart thing to do it is the right thing because it saves lives, it's the law and it will save you money.

Seatbelts is an excellent topic to write about for essay number two. I agree with you that seatbelts will drastically increase ones chances of surviving a car accident. One could argue though that seatbelts can also kill you in a car accident. While I myself know it to be true, that the odds of surviving while wearing a seatbelt compared to not are extremely high, not everyone knows that. A lot of people hear stories of freak cases in which people died wearing seatbelts, and use this as a reason not to wear a seatbelt. Statistically speaking, more people survive if they are wearing a seatbelt than if they are not. I know quite a few states have seatbelt laws in place such as the click it or ticket campaign, do you agree with this?

Driving a vehicle is a very complex activity that demands proper decision-making, total concentration, good co-ordination and rapid reflexes. In order to drive safely, it is essential to be alert, aware and able to make quick decisions in response to a constant rapidly changing environment.

Newton’s First Law (aka inertia) states that an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. If a car was travelling at 80km/hr, everything inside the car including the passengers will also be travelling at 80km/hr. If that car hits a brick wall, the car would stop moving but the passengers would continue moving at 80km/hr until they hit a solid object such as the headrest or the wall unless they were wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelts also stretch when force is applied, which helps dissipate the inertial energy and reduce the speed at which the passenger is travelling.

A recent multi-vehicle accident in Rutherford County is a reminder of the importance of using seatbelts. A 27-year-old woman was driving eastbound on State Route 840 West when her vehicle ran off the road. She overcorrected and crossed into oncoming traffic, colliding head-on with another vehicle. The 27-year-old was ejected from the vehicle and hit by a third vehicle. Both the 27-year-old woman and the driver of the second vehicle died from injuries sustained in the crash. Neither was wearing a seat belt, which, according to Tennessee Highway Patrol, would have made a difference in the crash.

Many people have lost their lives on the road and other were severely injured. Over a million of people across the globe dies commuting from home, work or school. This is devastating to hear each day there are thousands of fatal car crashes. There are several contributing factors to collisions such as; speeding, driving under the influence, distracted while driving. For example, the person search for a radio station to listen to while driving. This causes the driver to take their eyes off the road; within seconds a collision can occur. Especially if the car ahead of the driver suddenly stops because the traffic speed decreases.

In order to commence an awe-inspiring journey, one must have legitimate support to get them off to a great start and keep them going till they scorch pass the finish line. It’s like getting on to a rollercoaster and having to put on seatbelts in order for the ride to begin. I have been working diligently towards searching and applying for a myriad of scholarships and financial aid in order to constitute a virtual seatbelt that will protect me throughout my college career. The dilemma is not that people lack money for college, but rather it’s that people lack effort in searching for help. Without that protection in place one could plunge into debt and instead of leaving college to pursue a dream one could end up cemented in a nightmare.

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

Newton’s law of inertia states that an object in motion will stay in motion until an equal and opposite force stops it. In a collision, a driver’s car is stopped by another object (Ex: another car, a tree, a lamp post). Anything not attached to the car will continue to move forward because they are not stopped by the force that halted the car. Therefore a person who is not wearing a seatbelt during a collision would fly to the front of the car until they hit something (Ex: the dashboard, the wheel, a car seat).The stopping distance of the vehicle going 60 mph would be four times greater than that of the vehicle going 30 mph. This is because kinetic energy increases exponentially along with velocity. From my prior knowledge in physics, I know that the formula for

As drivers age, their risk of being involved in a car collision decreases. The present study investigated if this trend is due, in part, to some risky drivers having a collision early in their driving lives and subsequently reducing their risky driving after that negative experience. Accelerometers and video cameras were installed in the vehicles of 16- to 17-year-old drivers (N= 254), allowing coders to measure the number of g-force events (i.e., events in which a threshold acceleration level was exceeded) per 1,000 miles and the number of collisions. Among the 41 participants who experienced a severe collision, the rate of g-force events dropped significantly in the 1st month after the collision, remained unchanged for the 2nd month,

Dear 6th graders do you wear seatbelts? I know you're thinking what's is the point of wearing a seatbelt? Seatbelts aren't fun to wear and they can hurt you when parents slam on brakes. Did you know more than half of teens (ages 13-19) and adults (ages 20-44) who died in crashes in 2015 were not wearing a seat belt. (NHTSA)(Safe Kids) Seat belts maybe one of the most important things in cars that people neglect. It's not the point of people should drive safer it's that you have to protect yourself no matter what you don't control other drivers.

Along with accidents not only comes a little headache or a broken bone, but injuries that stay with you forever such as whiplash and brain damage. Most brain damage incidents occur when you are involved in a side impact collision and the side of your head hits the glass (brain injury). Side impact airbags are just one of the many ways in which this type of life threatening injury can be avoided (whiplash). There is also whiplash, which hurls your head violently, and usually results in long term disability. Since whiplash is so hard to avoid, it can only be avoided by reducing the number of accidents on the streets. Also one of the most painful and most traumatizing injuries that we encounter in accidents are bone fractures, which occur in 65% of all accidents (Bush 11). So in turn by making these cars safer we can all avoid these painful, traumatizing, life-threatening injuries.