The light stands at a bright red while you nervously twist your hands back and forth on the steering wheel. You feel your heart beating faster and you start to sweat, as you playfully look to the right at the car in the next lane. Suddenly, the light shines a glorious green, and you punch your gas pedal to the floor with your heavy foot, as your wheels spin from underneath you, ready to launch off like a rocket ship! Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Many teenagers have this same adventure every day, not knowing what the outcome could be if something went wrong. Speeding and street racing can be very dangerous to you and others around you. I’ve experienced many times with family and friends what speeding can cause. I’m hoping that you will read my stories and see how speeding can really be a deadly thing. I hope this essay will make you think twice before going over the speed limit. Speeding can cause pain for you and your loved ones.
One incident where speeding was the cause of emotional pain for someone happened about twenty-five years ago. The boy’s name was Steven. He was a good kid that always listen to his parents and went to class, rarely ever late. This day, Steven over slept and rushed out of his single story home, jumped into his red mustang in a hurry to get to Kempsville High School because he was late. He drove about 65 miles per hour when the speed limit was actually only 45. Thinking he was Dale Earnhardt, Steven deviated in and out of lanes with elegance. He
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The grandmother eventually got better and Steven was charged with reckless driving and lawsuit. Steven spent the next five years without a driver license and his parents ended up selling their home to pay the lawsuit. Not a day goes by that he wishes he would have slowed down. He spent several years thinking how going the speed limit and slowing down could have changed his life and the lives of his family, instead of the
Statistics show 16- to 17-year-old driver death rates increase with each additional passenger, which is due to distracted driving. Taking your eyes off the road for 2 (two) seconds, at 60 mph, means you have driven blindly for half the length of a football field. The risk of fatality is 3.6 times higher, when they are driving with passengers than when alone. For many years, the correlation between driving behavior and age has interested highway safety researchers and administrators. It is general knowledge that the greatest risk of motor vehicle crash...
Also, she received less moving tickets than the incompetent driver in Edwards who had eleven moving tickets and two DUIs, and the driver in Hornady Truck Line who received six speeding tickets. Yet, it does not mean she can drive properly. Tickets of disregarding the traffic control device, running the red light, and driving without license show her careless and reckless personality which one would not expect to see from a competent driver. Also, she got all those tickets in two months, comparatively short time for receiving comparing to the driver in Hornady Truck Line who received six speeding tickets in four years and the driver in Edwards who receive all the tickets during sixteen years. The high frequency of receiving a comparatively large number of tickets may be able to show her incompetence to operate and control a car properly, as illustrated by her failure to turn with road and lost control of the car in this
Dangers on roadways is an issue that describes the discrepancy between perception and reality of road rage. The media, for some odd reason, tends to make road rage a huge controversial issue. As seen on talk shows from Oprah Winfrey to CNN, they reveal to people that road rage could happen at any time and to always be looking over your shoulder. These talk shows and news programs also put fear into our minds by explaining that most roadragers often use guns to kill or injure their victims. Glassner contradicts the media's speculations by stating that out of approximately 250,000 people killed on roadways between 1990-1997, AAA attributed that one in one thousand was an act of road rage (pg.5).
The sun begins to creep up in the sky. The birds begin their song of the day. It’s a great day for a road trip. The driver of the vehicle receives a text message. He pulls his phone out of his pocket and looks at it for five seconds. At this point he is driving 55mph and goes the length of a football field without looking at the road. He takes his hands off the wheel to reply back and simultaneously collides with the semi-truck that merged onto the road while the driver was looking at the text message. The driver of the car dies on impact. It’s not a great day. Nine drivers are killed every day in America by texting and driving (Shumacher). This action increases the risk of a crash by a multiplier of two.
Distracted driving is something myself, as a driver, encounters everyday. From resisting to look at my phone, to seeing other people on the road using their phone and putting my life in danger. When I see people swerving because they’re distracted, it puts an image into my mind that I’ve heard too many stories about. People are dying because of a text, or a phone call, not to mention the plethora of other distractions on the road. I am declaring my independence from distracted driving because I care about my community, it could put me in harms way, and a life is way more important than a simple message.
Have speeding ever been a problem with you? How many speeding tickets have you received within a year? Have you ever wished that speed limits did not exist?
More than one third of driver fatalities involve speeding as shown by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Of the young male drivers between the ages of fifteen and twenty years old who were involved in car accidents in 2012, thirty seven percent were speeding. In 2011, speeding was present in fifty two percent of fatal car accidents with a teenager behind the wheel, which is almost the same percentage as in 2008 showing that the issue of speeding has not been improving. In addition, of the crashes due to error by young drivers twenty one percent of serious accidents were due to driving faster than what was safe for the road conditions. The biggest risk that is easily forgotten is that speeding increases the stopping distance required to prevent an accident. At the ages between sixteen and nineteen thirty eight percent of males and twenty four percent of female teenagers are involved in crashes resulting from high speeds. A total of two thousand eight hundred and twenty three teenagers ages thirteen through nineteen were killed in car crashes in 2012, this is sixty eight percent less than in 1975 and seven percent less than 2011. Though the numbers have decreased, they are still there; furthermore they are not just numbers as is easily forgotten, these numbers represent more than a statistic, they represent a life. To further drive the point that beyond the numbers are lives, here are a couple stories about the life of someone killed in a car accident due to excessive
Getting my first speeding ticket taught me a few life lessons, I am not invincible and that I need to slow down and enjoy the drive. Speeding did one thing for me, it transported me places quickly. I also put my life in danger speeding and could've easily hurt a person. I regret speeding everywhere, but I am thrilled that I had this reality check. This opportunity has given me a chance to change my ways so that I can keep a clean record as I become an adult.
Whether it is a text massage from love one or a bite of a sandwich, it is not so important than a human life. Distracted driving is an epidemic, so more tough laws should be implemented. The law for distracted driving should be tough just like a driving under influence. Distracting driving is a killer on the road, it should be banned because, it is the number one killer of the U.S. teenager in the road, not only the teenager in the road, but also cause a collision which is often fatal, and some incident were driver or one who involve on an accident became disable. Distraction is an involvement of driver where his or hers eye or mind are engage and performing on other things rather than driving, such as while talking on
Drivers who speed often do not realize the enormous danger they are creating. When someone is speeding they have a higher braking time and are often going too fast to notice all of their surroundings, and fail to take all of the safety precautions a driver should use. Road conditions play a large role in the effects of speeding. Choosing to speed can also get a person’s license taken away, cost a fortune, or both.
This political action memo explains that I want the speed limit lowered in my neighborhood. Then it provides five political actions I can take to get the speed limit lowered on my residential street. First, I will explain why the speed limit should be reduced and how it will benefit my neighborhood's safety concerns. Then I will explain both the positives and negatives of the five political actions I could take: making a phone call to my city council member, completing a Traffic Service Request form, sending an e-mail to my state legislature, attending a city council meeting, or creating a petition. Finally, this political action memo concludes that sending an e-mail to the Transportation
Motorists who have snapped and committed incredible violence are mostly men and women with no known histories of crime, violence, or alcohol and drug abuse. They are the people typically described by neighbors “the nicest woman or man” or “a wonderful mother or father.”
Teenagers are getting back on the roads and behind the wheel meaning the is a higher risk of accidents. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death in 15-to 20-year olds. Automakers are creating ways to make their automobiles safer in order to reduce these deaths. Teenage drivers are inexperienced and need the extra protection to keep them safe if an incident was to occur. Automobile safety features are necessary for the teenage driver to stay protected and alert.
Richard Petty once said “You’ll got home safe, so drive safe, and stay safe.” Being a racing legend, he is an advocate for safe driving to minimise the cases of road crushes that have been on the rise. He double up as the chairman of the Veterans’ Safe Driving Initiative, the initiative is aimed at guiding the veterans returning from deployment on safe driving tips. It is necessarily important since the infrastructure has changed over time. Another initiative is being run in Minnesota where the teens are guided on the important safe driving tips. Study shows that more crushes are likely to occur in teen driving than veteran driving. It is also evident that young drivers are more likely to cause a crush within six months of passing the driving test and young male are worse than the females in the field.
“Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional deaths for teens (16-17),” reported The New York State Department of Health. The most exciting thing about being sixteen in the United States is driving. Teenagers can not wait to be sixteen to drive, however, they do not understand the dangers that come with driving at such a young age. Sixteen is the age between child life and adulthood. It is a time when they are not stable and undergoing change, which makes them unsuitable to drive. Many teenagers would say that they need to get to places. In response to that claim, there are public transportation systems and bikes as available alternatives for young drivers. The financial stability and matureness of eighteen year olds proves