Seatbelt Descriptive Writing

I could taste the snow in my face. I could feel my stomach curl straight into a knot as I plummeted straight down in the snow. Just then, I hit some kind of rock. My sled tipped up, I left the air. I could hear the crack of my sled. I was flipping straightforward. I saw the snow that my face was about to crush as my sled broke into two pieces and I was on the piece that didn’t land upside down. Although I had survived this I was only about halfway down the hill, and I was about to hit the ramps. I could hear the whip of wind as my head hung over the broken sled. As I tried a weak attempt to steer the sled away from the ramps I tasted someone's sled that had been abandoned. As it hit me in the face I felt my sled hitting a ramp. I plummeted up in the air. I was high up, I saw my life flash by my eyes. Then I heard crash of my sled back onto the ground. There was someone next to me in a sled with a rope. I could smell the cold on the the rope. He threw the rope to me. But it was a bad throw. I saw the rope hit a bump in the snow. His sled slowed down and and stopped with the end of the rope. I tasted the dropped of water coming from the snow. I smelled nothing but the cold air, just then, I held my sled crash into the icy lake at the bottom of the hill. The lake was frozen solid, but I still heard little cracking sounds each time I stepped. When I was walking back, I heard my mom screaming my name. I heard the roar of her car

Since the implementation of mandatory seat belt laws studies have shown that seat belt usage has increased while traffic fatalities have decreased. Seat belt usage rates increased from 17% to 79% in the U.S. between 1983 and 2003 (Houston & Richardson, 2006). All U.S. states except New Hampshire have mandatory seat belt laws for adults. Currently, there are two types of seat belt enforcement, primary and secondary. To date, 34 states have a primary enforcement law which allows a police officer to initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle and issue a citation for no other reason than the fact that the driver is not wearing a seat belt. A benefit to a state having a primary enforcement law is that in 2016 seat belt usage was up 92% according to the CDC (2017).

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.

Automobiles have been around for over a century. They help people get around town as technology improves over the years. Now with better fuel economy, we are excited to be driving around for many miles over the road. Although many of our cars have change overtime, the one thing that has never change is the seat belt that’s near our car doors. Whenever you get in any car on the road, its important that we depend on people to wear seat belts. Seat Belts are the ones we must wear before we head out on our cars. Its protect drivers from injuries sustain from crashes. Seat Belt inspire many states laws in America, but sometimes not all seat belt laws are mandatory. Only one state in the United States didn’t have any seat belts laws at all with the exception of the booster seat law. Anytime we get in our car, we always depend on seat belts to protect drivers from serious injuries or

The rink was cold as expected. Not only was it winter in Maine, but they were in a building with a huge ice rink in the center. John and Rosemary were right up next to the glass watching the game with Beau right behind them. A short while into the game, the puck was slapped and came ricocheting across the glass right in front of Rosemary and John. John didn’t move an inch being used to watching his brother play where as Rosemary screamed and flinched away. Beau put his hands on her quivering shoulders. “It’s okay, you’re alright.” Something was telling him to just wrap his arms around her and squeeze her tight. Rosemary looked up and saw Beau staring back at

I knew I couldn’t stop. I froze. I crashed. I woke up. On March 13th 2011, I had an accident. I woke up in a pool of crimson mud and snow, and I could see my right cheek in the corner of my eye. I slid my tongue across my teeth, and cringed in fear as I felt the abnormality inside my mouth: every tooth right of my nose was misshapen, and my front teeth were halfway out of my mouth. I was missing another. I thought God had tried to kill me, and I was irrational. I couldn’t move. I had slid off the ice covered ski path and off into the woods.

My mom’s old car slowed to a stop as we parked. We got out of the car and walked to the entrance. As I walked through the automatic doors at Oakton Ice Arena, I looked around and saw the large sheet of ice, with boards that seemed to stretch for miles on end. The lights above showered the place with bright light, and dark black marks covered the boards, the boards were even taller than my miniscule three-year-old self, with even taller sheets of clear glass above the boards! My mom and I borrowed some rental skates from the rental station they had set up, and I slipped them on, along with my elbow and knee pads, and a bicycle helmet. I then stepped onto the ice for the first time and wobbled, then crashed onto the ice.

The question we all should be asking ourselves is if its illegal for you and your child to not wear a seatbelt in a vehicle? Then why would I put my child on a bus without a seat bealt? By law the bus driver wears a seatbelt but your young child is sitting in the seat right behind them without a seatbelt, or a car seat. In my opinion we should have seatbelts on the school buss. If there’s not as many accidents reported for school busses then seatbelts shouldn’t be a problem on school busses.

As my friend Harry looked through his backpack for his orange bottle of pills I thought about the past two months. I was working at Sonic late one night when we had to close early due to the heavy snow which happened alot since we lived in Colorado. I started driving home and texting my friend Harry that I wasn’t gonna be able to come over, when all of the sudden I looked up and saw a person standing in front of me I slammed on the brakes, but my car slid on the thin sheet of ice and the next thing I knew I was going over the edge of the bridge. I guess someone behind me saw the accident because the paramedics started arriving quickly and pulling me out of the lake that was starting to freeze. When they finally got me out I couldn’t even ask

“KEVIN...JOHN!”, I screamed as loud as I could, knowing well he won’t hear me. The snow was too thick. I was trapped and only my head was above the surface. Panic was setting in and I realized I may not make it out alive. Just to think two days ago I was having the time of my life with my best friends. It all began where there is no snow, in my home town of Tucson, Arizona. One week before the accident we had all still been in school, talking our mouths off about what will be doing for winter break. While everyone was bragging about some sunny beach on one side of the nation, we were talking about the powder coated slopes of freezing cold Colorado. We had always wanted to take a road trip together ever since we were

With increased interstate speed limits, distracted drivers, and more vehicles on the roadway buckling up could be the most important seconds utilized each day. Far too many people are seriously injured or killed in vehicle crashes by choosing to not wear a seat belt. Wearing a seat belt has proven to reduce serious and fatal injuries in motor vehicle crashes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the leading cause of death in the U.S. among people between the ages of 1 – 54 is motor vehicle crashes (2017). History has proven a need for seat belt usage in the U.S. All but one U.S. state currently has a mandatory seat belt law in effect, however many drivers and passengers still choose to not wear one. This decision can have a tremendous effect on loved ones if killed or seriously injured in a crash. There is one sure way to increase the chances of seeing loved ones again. Wearing a seat belt reduces injuries and saves lives.

My body rolled off the trunk and onto the ice with a sickening crunch. The car slowed down, paused for a moment beside the curb, and then sped away throwing chunks of ice from its back wheels as it disappeared down the road.

There is no question that people need to wear a seatbelt, and that seat belts help keep you protected. Seat belts help keep you safe in many different situations. For example: car accidents, unforeseen stops, and just to restrict your movement in the car.

If not wearing a seat belt is illegal and punishable by law in that state, I think officers did have right to stop the person. I know it’s not how it is not sounding right, but if I am an officer while on duty and see something suspicious, I think I will act as if I work in that jurisdiction. Officers are also citizens, so applying citizen arrest shouldn’t be against them. It is also an officer call to whether the arrest is reasonable and he believes that he has a probable cause toward that arrest. I think if the officer believe a crime has been commited or the law have been violated, they have the reasonable right to stop. This is actually what community messed up with probable cause or reasonable cause. It is hard to understand the law correctly, because the public don’t always know the rights and the meaning of it. I sometime did think police shouln’t stop me without committing any fault. This was before I take this class, but now I understand that a reasonable