The Dangers Associated With Road Work Zones

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.

Distracted driving has been the most recent cause of accidents on the road presently. Of course there are many other reasons why drivers get into accidents, but it is mainly because they get distracted. Police in El Cerrito, California even gave more than 600 citations in April to drivers for distracted driving violations (“El Cerrito”).Also,“nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in the U.S. due to drivers being distracted”(“Distracted”).Distracted driving today causes many accidents through the use of technology, eating and drinking, and children in the backseat.

In the article “Work Zone Safety Awareness a Priority” by Megan Kennedy. Talks about the issues with speeding in these construction zones. Most of the accidents that happen in construction zones are caused by speeding motorist. When driving through a construction zone motorists should at least decrease their speed by 10mph. Due to limited space in the zones it makes it hard for highway patrol to monitor the speeders. The fines for speeding in the zones increase to help slow drivers down. To help minimize the accidents in these zones pay attention and slow down when passing through a construction

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s released its Commercial Motor Vehicle Facts report in March 2013; that in 2012, there were 5,700,000 Commercial drivers operating in the United States and a total of 504,093 interstate freight carriers operating. There was also a total of 15,465 intrastate hazardous material carriers on the highway. In 2012 alone, there were 75,542 carriers permitted to drive on the highway and roughly an equal amount in 2011, with 75,519. The importance of all of these statistics is that with the ever-growing number of commercial vehicles on the road, the amount of accidents increase as well. In 2011, 3,757 traffic crash victims were killed in a crash with a large truck and nearly 88,000 were injured. The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled is .136 for large trucks and busses and the injury rate is 3.8. The estimated costs of commercial motor vehicle crashes totaled $87 billion; with $39 billion from fatal crashes, $32 billion from injury crashes and $16 billion from property damage only crashes. Not all of these accidents and fatalities are commercial carriers fault, because there are other drivers on the road that are distracted or under the influence for instance, but there can be extra precautions taken to decrease the amount of crashes and damage. Decreasing the wait time, also known as detention time, at shipping and receiving facilities, allows the drivers to be driving

• People are still breaking the rule and turns out to be caught in accident TRANSITION STRATEGY 3.Satisfaction To make precautionary measures: • Get Driving Awareness • Obey Driving laws Steps to Safer Driving: • Try no higher than 3rd gear in a 30 mph limit • Recognise what makes you speed • Slow down when entering villages 4.Visualization If speed limit won’t be followed by the people: • Imagine how many accidents may

Officials said that on Friday morning in Texas four citizens sadly perished in a car accident. These four victims were from Kitchener, Ontario. On Texas highway Interstate 35, the police said the crash began when a driver was driving on the wrong side of the highway road, south of Austin (Texas). Justice of the Peace Beth Smith told us that at 1am two men, one woman and a baby had died. Two other little girls went to the hospital but their injuries were not life-threatening. After they were checked out by the doctors, they were sent home with other family members who arrived in Texas. They had found out that the victims who had died were 27 year old Margaretha Wall Hildebrandt Peters, 31 year old Heinrich Martens, 30 year old Gerhard Hiebert

In 2014, there were 32,675 deaths related to motor vehicle accidents (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and The Highway Loss Data Institute, 2015). The top reported causes of car accidents are distracted driving, speeding, and drunk driving (Starver, 2014). So many lives have been lost to the road, but fortunately, the number of deaths in motor vehicle accidents are decreasing year to year. This trend also correlates with the increasing amount of laws created in order to deter people from actions associated with the causes of many car accidents. In order to continue this trend of reducing fatalities related to car accidents, the federal government should pass laws to standardize safer practices across states, as well as require new drivers, and those who have had their licenses revoked, to take courses on the dangers of driving and defensive driving practices. To support these laws, the federal government could

Public safety is one of the big concerns in the United States. American government is doing their best to maintain the safety on the road. The government of the United States is not just focusing road safety on national level but also they are focusing on state wide to ensure the safety on roads. With all their hard work, they are successful for ensuring the safety. Especially now days where the technology is expanding every day, with this fact it is hard for the government to keep up with everyday changing technology. The new technologies that are interfering with the road safety are mobile devices like; cell phones, ipads, and tablets. People are using these

Vehicle two was parked facing north legally on Lakeshore Drive and not occupied at the time of the collision. Vehicle one was travelling north on Lakeshore Drive from West Cuthbert Boulevard at the time of the collision. Driver one related that he was not watching the roadway when he was glancing to the left. While doing so, driver one related that his vehicle drifted to the right, out of its lane of travel causing him to rear end parked vehicle two. Vehicle two was then pushed in to utility pole # 61725, which is owned by PSE&G Utility Company.

Many people lose their lives or loved ones in accidents involving cars and other types vehicles like semi trucks, farm equipment, construction vehicles, and motorcycles. People are involved in car accidents due to reasons such as distracted driving, drunk driving, inability to drive, driving in an unsafe vehicle. Many of the accidents can be can be prevented. There are many precautions that can be taken to decrease the amount of people hurt in these accidents. Options range from enforcing harsher laws for vehicular accident or simply making the car itself safer, and making it mandatory that vehicles are safer. As well as new laws that could created. There are many small things that people can do to become a better driver and cause less accidents.

Canada’s roads and parking lots are some of the busiest in the world. They also make up for some of the most unsafe work areas. In terms of overall occupational safety, current national figures show casualties and injuries are at their highest level. A good number of these safety problems are caused by workers being struck by oncoming vehicles, or them being injured by machinery and equipment or failure by the professionals to put on protective gear while at the work

To alleviate the road hazards in Minnesota, the road safety experts conducts routine safety inspections. The safety inspector examines the highway and construction signs roads, bridges, and obstructions may block the motorist’s view. The state of Minnesota is vulnerable to a variety of potential hazards. These hazards, both natural and man-made causes that threaten loss of life and property. Minnesota has several mitigations plan to widen lanes, replace the ore docks on southbound bridge and repaved some

Accidents on the road happen daily. Reducing the likelihood of an accident requires the enforcement of necessary traffic laws and the use of appropriate safety measures. On occasion, however, certain safety measures are not taken or enforced when they should be. One such place that has great need for such measures is the intersection of Eglin Pkwy and 12th Ave in Shalimar Florida.

Motor vehicle travel remains the foremost mode of transportation not only in the United States, but in all countries, which provides a great degree of flexibility. However, for all its advantages, injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes are still the leading cause of death for individuals under the age of 27. As many have witnessed, accidents can arise at any time and occur about every 60 seconds. When operating motor vehicles a person increases the probability of triggering an accident or being involved in one, with that in mind, the worst outcome can take place. Fatalities are a reality and the worst aftermath of an accident, as well as, the most devastating. Fatalities on the highway occur about every 16 minutes, according to

In the United States, construction has always been one of the most dangerous industries to work in. The number of fatalities that occur in this industry year after year demonstrate this. In 2014, 19.6% of worker fatalities, in private industry, were in construction (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015) despite the industry comprising only 6.8% of the total work force. This epidemic is not unique to the United States. Essentially every country faces similar problems regarding construction safety. For example, in 2004 the Australian construction industry employed approximately 8% of the countries workforce. However, workers compensation statistics indicated that the industry’s incidence rate was 28.6 per 1000 employees,