Motor Vehicle Safety

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Motor Vehicle Safety
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Driving Safety

• How safe are the roads?
• Driving injurieson or off the job
• Unsafe acts behind the wheel
• Driving under the influence
• Road rage
• Unsafe conditions
• Vehicle safety features
• Did you know?

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How safe are the roads?

• 2005 data for the U.S.
• 45,800 deaths
• 2.6 million nonfatal injuries
• Rise in accidents during summer months
• Friday (especially evening/night hours) has more
  fatal accidents than any other day

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Driving injuries

• The most hazardous environment
• For most of us, whether on or off the job, it is
  on the road
• Faced daily by millions

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Unsafe acts behind the wheel

• Shaving
• Putting on makeup
• Reading a map
• Not using a seatbelt
• Unsafe passing of another vehicle
• Tailgating
• Not using blinkers
• Cell phone use

• Driving at unsafe speeds
• Eating
• Failing to stop or yield

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Speeding truck rolls and burns

• A truck traveling over the speed limit hit a
  traffic control vehicle and burst into flames in
  a rollover.
• The driver of the signal truck was injured and
  the driver of the truck was burned to death.

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Marine terminal worker is run over

• A laborer at a marine shipping terminal was
  critically injured when he was run over by a
  trailer being backed onto a barge.
• He died seven days later of complications related
  to the injuries.

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Road Rage

• Road rage is driving under the influence of too
  much anger.
• What causes Road Rage?
• Relax!

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Driving under the influence (DUI)

• No Driving Under the influence
• Includes more than alcohol
• Sobering facts
• About 3 in every 10 Americans will be involved in
  an alcohol-related traffic accident at some time
  in their lives

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DUI victims remembered

• The first county memorial in the United States to
  be devoted to victims of drunk driving crashes
  has been unveiled in Everett, WA. The DUI
  Victim's Memorial Wall honors 45 victims, with
  room for 115 more names.
• Persons convicted of DUI (driving under the
  influence) pay for the memorial tiles as part of
  a program allowing them to donate money instead
  of serving time in jail.

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Unsafe conditions

• Poor visibility
• Poor road conditions
• Improper vehicle maintenance

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Vehicle safety features

• Daytime running lights
• Lap/shoulder safety belts
• Air bags for driver and passenger
• Side impact airbags
• Anti-lock brakes

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Did you know?

• When driving on a road that is new to you
• Your eyes tend to scan the road from left to
  right, which is an excellent driving habit
• We tend not to scan when in familiar territory
• How closely can you safely follow another car?
• Use the 2 or 4 second rule