Traffic accidents have been among the leading causes of deaths in Lebanon. This is spreading on our streets and highways, taking the lives of innocent people both at night and in broad daylight. Despite the many traffic awareness conferences, campaigns and warnings aimed to control accidents, we continue to witness car crashes, deaths and injuries at alarming rates. Speeding is known to be the top cause of car accidents, but there are other factors to blame, such as driving under the influence of alcohol, the poor condition of roads and the absence of street lights at night.
There has been 4644 traffic accidents were registered in 2009 and resulted in 513 deaths and 6508 injuries. In 2010, the number decreased to 4583, but human casualties rose to 549 deaths and 6517 injuries. The accidents dropped further to 4447 in 2011 with 508 dead and 6040 injured. This year, 2323 accidents have been recorded so far, end of October. (Information International, 2014)
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Plus, they installed 10 safe crossing in front of 10 schools in Lebanon and working on more to protect the lives of students crossing the road. Furthermore, they organized two taxi nights in the objective of spreading drunk driving awareness and encourage the youth to use taxi cars when they go partying especially in New Year’s Eve (Road Safety, Kunhadi). According to my friend “Elie”, on New Year’s Eve he received a message by Kunhadi offering him a free ride for the night in case he drank alcohol. This simple message makes a big difference for every single teenager where the transportation is a big issue for them to make sure they arrive safely at their
Easterbrook explains why the program of road fatalities is being ignored by society (1). According to Gregg Easterbrook’s article, “Road Kill”, he writes that “the first fundamental difference between harm because of accidents and harm because of deliberate action; the second, society’s strange assumption that traffic fatalities cannot be avoided” (1). He writes that, because, unlike terrorism, car crashes were planned to cause harm. Easterbrook writes that
Easterbrook brings traffic accidents in contrast to the events of the tragedy of September eleventh, 2001 (A2). The number of deaths on 9/11: 3000, compared to the “42,642 traffic deaths in 2006” (Easterbrook A2). Easterbrook writes that in 2006 alone, 1.2 million people were killed on roads all around the world, compared to “100,000 dead as a result of combat” (A2). This huge comparison shows the huge deaths from
In this decade, automobiles were changed to help protect people. The Traffic Act is important because it introduces the offenses of careless driving and other issues, which will make drivers more aware and careful on the road. In addition, when the government saw many people were dying due to automobile accidents, the government introduced a law “in 1935 [...] designated pedestrian road crossings, with a bright orange globe on a pole on either side of the road” (Chapman 110). Crosswalks were a very important part to improving the safety of cars because drivers will see crosswalks ahead; as well as, become more aware if there are pedestrians crossing the road because of the bright poles. Today, one can still see that these were a significant part of improving safety because crosswalks are still in
The program has helped many people specially when going 140[mpg] from hurting people who don’t even know a race is happening. Less deaths occur due to street racing, although some one can’t say they won’t crash their car it is very rare for people to say they won’t lose control and not lose
In the year 1924, a spike in deaths caused by car accidents occurred, and went up 18 percent to 26,000 deaths, which the majority of
The US went through revolutionary advancements in transportation from 1800 to 1840. The transportation improvements had substantial effects on the economy and also individual development. People could now buy goods that were made in places faraway because access was easier to towns and cities and people’s experiences grew as they were able to be more mobile (309). The roads were inadequate in 1800, so the federal government funded the National Road in 1808 to establish its dedication to improve the roads in the nation and so then by 1839 the East and West would be tied together (309). Commerce was still inadequate even with the National Road funded which improved transportation.
Statistics show the percent of sixteen year olds that got into an accident was significantly less than those of twenty-five year olds. Many states, however are concerned for the safety of teens and believe that driving should be raised to eighteen as a minimum age. The age requirement for teen drivers should not be raised because it increases responsibility skills, and allows teenagers to have more experience in driving. Being able to depend by ownself and be responsible is key to growing as a teenager. Driving solo and doing activities helps a teenager achieve that.
With the ban on all technology and hands free technology while driving can also help to decrease the amount of distracted driving, which will prevent accidents
One of the greatest death causes while driving for many years was because of individuals driving under the influence of alcohol. However, alcohol is no longer the only reason why so many deaths are being caused out in the streets while driving. Society is so consumed by this one thing that even while driving it cannot wait. Those who are driving do not understand the danger they put themselves and others in when they give their attention away from the road and everything around them. This small device in the hands of people while driving has caused many deaths in our world.
However, they need to wade through constantly varying conditions of weather and circumstances and have a responsibility to safely transport the most vulnerable group of people, the students. Meanwhile, these skills include driving in harsh weather conditions like rain, low visibility due to fog, etc. as well as driving skills
It thus promotes safe driving habits with incentives. In addition, it helps a driver to bring down the frequency of occurring accidents, improve recovery tracking of a stolen vehicle, easier settlement of claims amidst
This means that our governments should invest in redesigning our road, highways and freeways to cope with high speed limits. High speed limits do not mean that our road has become unsafe, but their design is not appropriate for certain new speed limits. Our roads have been the same for many years and have not been updated for decades. In addition to that, the reckless driving, lack of driving and road maturity is causing hundreds of causalities yearly. The drivers on the road lack respect, gratefulness and gratitude to other drivers and that’s why accidents are occurring.
Speeding There are many effects of speeding, such as ticket fees, going to court, driver important class, and a rise in insurance. All of these effects will make you rethink speeding, no matter what the causes for speeding are. Speeding is a very serious matter that could be prevented. Running late, or just wanting to go fast are two of the major causes of speeding.
Traffic congestion is a condition on convey networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by more gradual speeds, longer trip times, and incremented vehicular queueing. The most mundane example is the physical utilization of roads by conveyances. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between conveyances slows the haste of the traffic stream, this results in some congestion. As demand approaches the capacity of a road (or of the intersections along the road), extreme traffic congestion sets in. When conveyances are plenarily ceased for periods of time, this is colloquially kenned as a traffic jam or traffic snarl-up.