Vehicle law

rational processes when facing emotional decisions. Teenagers are more likely to misuse cars by racing, and also party in cars, and make stupid choices. When a car full of young kids are coming home or going to a party they tend to misuse the motorized vehicle, this is very dangerous. All the intoxicated people in the car are telling the driver to act like an idiot, and are peer pressuring the person into doing things they don't want to do. Young drivers are more likely to race in cars than adults, this

Young Xavier was crossing a street with is sister when his life took a turn for the worst. An accident left this once energetic child confined to a wheelchair, his mother forced to listen to the constant, rhythmic mechanical hum of his breathing apparatus. If it fails she will only have moments before he would begin to suffocate. An unsuspecting Amish family, going about their day as per usual was killed on impact after being launched into a ditch. A father, crushed to death one morning on his way

It happened to a son, who was once energetic but is now constrained to a wheelchair. His mother always listening to the rhythmic mechanical sounds of his breathing machine, for if it fails he will only have moments before suffocation. An Amish family launched into a ditch, killed upon impact, and a father crushed to death early one morning on his way to work – it happened to them too. Above everything, Werner Herzog’s documentary on the tragedies of texting and driving, “From One Second to the Next”

to manually input information. The laws surrounding texting while driving are far too lenient when compared to laws on drunk driving, yet both can end in a car crash. People texting while driving should face steeper penalties than what is already in place because they are a danger to anyone around them. The small fines are not enough to deter people. While banning cell phones from being allowed in vehicles is not an effective approach to the problem, stricter laws should be put in place to make the

more important than your life.” This quote sums up how important it is not to text and drive, or drink and drive. There are laws against drinking and driving because it is very treacherous, but why not texting and driving? I believe that texting and driving should receive the same punishment as drinking and driving. According to “Injury Prevention and Control: Motor Vehicle Safety”, when texting and driving you do not see what is going on around you because your eyes are on your phone, not the road

Keatra Brown NSU ENG Mrs. D. Adams March. 20,2015 Banning Cell Phone Use While Driving When we are on the road wreck less driving can be caused by a number of situations, which ultimately is all related to the driver being irresponsible. Many of us have witnessed drivers so distracted by their cell phones that they often resemble drunk drivers and we 've all seen the commercials of the distracted drivers who look down to read that one message and now suffer permanent brain damage or have ended

individuals who have driven a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. By conducting our study and giving out questionnaires to a sample of about 600 individuals, our data will help us determine what types of patterns lead up to intoxicated driving. When finding out some of the causes, we can then try to figure out ways that will be productive in reducing the amount of intoxicated drivers there are on the road, and what action should be taken to more strongly enforce the laws against drunk

210 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2010, 211 (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver. Of the 211 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2010, over half (131) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver. In 2010, over 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. That is one percent of the 112 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults

is done online. These two are the major causes of feeling the need to connect with one another. The constant texting and the boost of social media use. There are many ways that distracted driving can affect you. In the article How Far Does Your Vehicle Travel While Looking at Your Cell Phone, author Tony Summerville states that, “Sending or reading a text takes your eyes off the road for 5 seconds. AT 55 mph, that’s like driving the length of an entire football field, blindfolded.” A lot can happen

time someone is charged. While, the punishment for texting and driving are only monetary fines. So, why is texting and driving considered a less punishable offense? A major reason is because of the length of time both have been a problem. The first law against drinking and driving was in 1910 and cell phones weren 't popular until 80 years after in the 1990s. Because of the long time period of drunk driving being a problem, there is more attention towards the crime. There also wasn’t a long enough