Road Safety Campaigns : How Safe Are You?

Inexperience: Inexperience can cause accidents because people don’t know what they are doing and therefore can panic and cause collisions or can drive too fast for their skill level and cause collisions in that way. The worst thing people can do is drive to slow for example if someone is driving to slow they could merge into a roadway driving to slow and be rear ended. There have been many occurrences of people driving with inexperience and causing collision due to it. The easiest way to reduce collisions caused by inexperienced drivers is to have them start on a private road and a parking lot until they are comfortable in the vehicle then having them start driving in different conditions until they are

I’ve recently discovered that the leading deaths for 16-19 years old are car crashes. In the United State of America, ages between 16-19 there were 2,333 were killed. That’s not all, 221,313 were treated in emergency hospitals. You have to consider to processing this in your mind, that some of those crashes were not the 16-19 drivers fault. Sixteen year olds that drive may not be the cause of all accidents. We must all be responsible drivers, no matter the age.

(Now that we have talked about your risk of an accident and how it takes your attention off the road now let us talk about it being the leading cause of death in kids between the ages 15-19.)

Firstly, accidents happen to everyone. People believe that the reason younger teens are more likely to experience a car accident or wreck is that they have the least experience. That is not always the case. If the age is moved to 18, for example, 18 year-olds are still just as inexperienced as the 16 year-olds. Teens who have little practical experience of driving in the real world will be just as dangerous at any age. Until they have received practice, these drivers are potentially threatening. Driving is a skill that has to be learned. One must develop this skill through experience.

accidents. If we raise the driving age to 17 or even 18 lots of lives would be saved. A teens life is

Many parents of teens worry about the fact that auto accidents are the number 1 cause of death among teenagers exceeding homicide, suicide and cancer combined. ​ These statics can be alarming and the main reason why some parents argue that teens shouldn't drive. Many articles and studies show teens pick up parents bad habits from watching them drive over the years and this can possibly effect how they handle certain situations on the road. ​According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), teenage drivers are four times more likely to be involved in a car crash than adult drivers. Traffic crashes are the #1 cause of death and injury for people ages 16-20, with more than 5,600 teens dying in motor vehicle collisions each year. Problems

When the Canadian public was surveyed by the Canadian Council of Motor Transportation Administrators about road safety, only 28% of participants believed that their community’s road safety was “very safe” (ranking a 6 or 7 on a 7 point scale). In fact, this is a logical claim, as in 2014, CCMTA released statistics stating that about 112,167 car accidents that occurred that year resulted in personal harm (including fatalities). As drivers in Canada, we are expected to make safe choices when operating motorized vehicles. Unsafe driving does not only affect the person who chose to drive in this manner; car accidents may involve passengers, other drivers on the road, and pedestrians. It is essential that anybody with a license takes measures

I believe these accidents are caused by people texting or talking on their phones, drug and alcohol affected drivers, defective vehicles or poor road quality. There is also a problem with influences from social media and movies.

In America today, it is nearly impossible to live with out driving. People use driving to get to school, work, and sometimes just drive around to have a good time. Most people start driving at the age of sixteen years old. These teenage drivers are prone to being unsafe on the road ways. According to the article, “Teen Drivers,” car crashes are the leading cause of death in teens of the age sixteen to eighteen. Being teens are still young their immaturity can take over when they drive causing them to be unsafe drivers.

Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teens and young adults. More than 5,000 young people die every year in car crashes and thousands more are injured. Drivers who are 16 years old are more than 20 times as likely to have a crash, as are other drivers. There are two main reasons why teens are at a higher for being in a car crash and lack of driving experience and their tendency to take risks while driving. Teens drive faster and do not control the car as well as more experienced drivers. Their judgment in traffic is often insufficient to avoid a crash. In addition, teens do most of their driving at night, which can be even more difficult. Standard driver's education classes include 30 hours of classroom teaching and 6 hours of behind-the-wheel training. This is not enough time to fully train a new driver. Teen drivers are more like to be influence by peers and other stresses and distractions. This can lead to reckless driving behaviors such as speeding, driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and not wearing safety belts. There is no safe amount that you can drink and still drive. Even one drink can influence your driving offences. “Nowadays, drunk driving has become driving while intoxicated, driving while impaired, driving while under the influence, operating while under the influence (impaired, intoxicated, or whatever), and in many

As teenagers, our youth can take over our minds. This leads us to believe that we are immortal and can do anything without repercussion. We tend to view driving as something that is cool and fun, but do not acknowledge it as a privilege given to us. Teens are more likely to participate in risky driving behavior such as speeding and driving without a seat belt. As teenagers we need to view driving as a privilege with dangerous consequences if we do not use proper precautions. When we do not use proper care while driving we can end up with serious injuries, permanent disabilities, or die. “Crashes are the leading cause of death among American teens, accounting for more than one third of all deaths of sixteen- to eighteen-year-olds” (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). Being careless is also very expensive for our parents. When a car is in an

Firstly, accidents happen to everyone. People believe that younger teens have little experience to prevent a car accident or wreck. Even if the age gets raised to 18, for example, 18 year-olds show signs of inexperience just like 16 year-olds. Teens who have little practical experience of driving in the real world continue to possess dangerous driving habits at any age. Until they have received practice, these potentially threatening drivers will never learn. Driving, a learned skill, possesses importance in people’s everyday lives. One must develop this skill through experience.

Some major factors that may be playing a role in car accidents and collisions include the increase in the number of drivers on the road, distracted driving, over-reliance on advanced car technologies such as backup cameras and lane-change sensors and driving under the influence

Third reason of accidents on the road is teenage drivers. “2,739 teenagers died in car accidents in the United States during 2008 ", (drivesteady.com). Some teenagers cause fatal accidents, because of immaturity and lack of experience. Teenagers are very impulsive. Although not intending to hurt anyone, they sometimes drive very aggressively. It is not difficult to find teenagers driving with one hand on the steering wheel, seat pushed back, and with loud music playing. In traffic they go wild, trying to seek attention. They underestimate the risk of what they are doing. All these acts result in serious consequences on the road. Many accidents of young drivers result from their own mistakes.

The two examples of Senate testimony are quite different, from the congenial non-urgent approach of Fred Rogers perhaps a more pressing issue from the late 1960s might have made a better comparable to the urgency of Al Gore's 2009 testimony on climate change. The tone of the interview is a major difference, and I would want to deal with road safety more with the tone used in the Fred Rogers approach. The reason is simple I can read statistics for myself. What I would want to get from my interview is a sense from those involved in road safety police officers, transportation authority officials and civil engineers as to what approaches work best. I want a philosophical guidepost for tackling the problem of road safety. I do not need to be spurred to action, but rather I want to hear from people who are already doing it right.