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    Road construction is an overwhelming situation every driver faces. The first sight of orange barrels and construction workers leaves any driver frustrated. Closed roads and detours are everything drivers want to avoid during their daily commutes. The reality of the situation is that road construction is something that we all have to deal with because it affects a large population of individuals. Beyond all the frustration, road work is very serious and causes many problems. Road construction is such

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    According to National Safety Council, “Accident is an occurrence in sequence of events that produces unintended injury, death or property damages.” As in this era, road accident can be known as common tragedies that keep increasing year to year. Based on references, it is shows the review of the factor and effect of road accidents which occur in this century. Therefore, road accidents may cause lack of concentration, damages vehicle, death and serious injuries. Accidents that occurred frequently because

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    Causes of road accidents. “Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day,” according to the Association For Safe International Road Travel. Road accidents are practically dangerous for everyone; they might cause serious injuries, severe damage and even be the reason why someone’s life is taken away from them. There can be several reasons why a car crashes. Distracted driving, speeding, and drunk driving are the three main causes of car accidents. The most

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    Road Accidents In Texas

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    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

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    side of the road. This story is all too common among drivers in the Northeast. Icy roads are extremely dangerous to everyone, but especially to drivers. These driving conditions cause a large amount of stress that often follows drivers into their workday. By far the most common population affected of icy roads is drivers. Icy roads cause a mass amount of accidents each year. In 2015, 151,944 ice related accidents were reported in the US alone. These accidents, as any other accidents, cause drivers

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    of relevant road accidents. The task may not be easy, as lot of literature on road accident data management has been produced in many languages and in various parts of the world. In academics, study of information management and strategy of managing road accidents was undertaken in different ways in many faculties and discipline such as engineering, physical science, economic, social science, transport, geography, media, health and education. When we look at the subject of road accident and its related

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    ROAD ACCIDENTS – SPEED THE ONLY REASON? Surface transport is a vital activity of all human civilization since time immemorial. Humankind has spread all over the globe by means of surface transport. Of the various means of surface transport, road transport is the most common and crucial in human life. Roads have spread wide and in fact, road intensity could be an index of socio-economic progression of human communities, states and countries. Along with spread of the roads, the vehicles also have grown

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    3.5. Sample size determination (a) First responders in villages along black spots The total numbers of people living at the villages along the Nairobi-Mombasa road accident black spots within Makueni County are estimated at 4631 as per the Provincial administrators in these areas. The sample size will be worked out as (using the formula by Fisher et al, 1998): Formula n=z2pq d 2 Where: n= desired sample size (where population is greater

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    IMPACT OF AVERAGE ANNUAL DAILY TRAFFIC AND ROAD ROUGHNESS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF ACCIDENTS ON ARIZONA INTERSTATES Pavement EMR Term Paper Gurpreet Singh Rai 12Fifty5 East University Drive, Tempe ,AZ, 85281 Word Count : 1623 words Submission Date - December 2, 2016   ABSTRACT One of the main goal of a pavement designer and constructors is to provide a smooth road, so as to facilitate the traffic movement. But due to the environmental factors, pavement start to show signs of distresses, and when

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    Cooper Road Accident

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    The houses were raddled. Thirty miles south until the next house. Horses grazing in green filled pastures under big thick rumbling clouds. In between the little red wooden barn and the back cow field sat a little red brick house. Inside did not have a happy family eating dinner every night or playing board games. Inside sat an angry and misunderstood sixteen year old boy, Cooper. Cooper, flicked the t.v. on realized that a tornado had shown up on the radar to hit Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri

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