Highway Deaths Hold Steady
Highway deaths hold steady. The number of people who are dying on the highway is not changing. In 1998 the amount of people who are killed in car accidents are only two more than 1999. This leads me to believe that there is many faults in the way people handle themselves while on the road. The actual number of deaths on the highway for 1999 is 43,986. The relatives of nearly forty-five thousand people are either called, or visited by the highway patrol of their state and are given the news of their loved-ones death. When looking at the statistics and then looking at the way I see people driving on the highway, it is not hard to see why so many people die. The number one factor that causes so many accidents is road rage. It is estimated that between 1990 and 1999 that there was a 60 percent increase in the number of people who drive aggressively. A poll, taken in August of 1999, found that Americans believe 74 percent of the people they see driving, are more aggressive than they were five years ago. In Whittier, California a clinical psychologist by the name of Arnold Nerenberg has been quoted as saying "This competitiveness on the road is similar to what you see in all social mammals." The way people act while drivi
With changes! like these there wouldn't be so many damn accidents and nobody would be pissed off because of slow traffic. If people are uncomfortable driving than of course there's going to be a lot of accidents. One more thing that every state in the nation should do is to have a class set up for people who want to learn better driving tactics. The California Highway Patrol had taken a poll for people renewing their license about the most aggressive acts of a driver and number one with an 88 percent pick was tailgating, followed closely by rude gestures and passing on the shoulder. Sure people learned to drive, but do they really "know" how to drive? There should be a class set up. It has been reported by the California Highway Patrol that a main concern for them are the big rig trucks that get in accidents. Of every 100,000 drivers there are about twenty that die in car accidents. I'm going the speed limit exactly and everybody is flying right by me. Last year the trucking companies installed tracking devices on the trucks to make sure that the truckers weren't getting off track and going somewhere else. The pay factor leads truck drivers to drive fast, dangerously, and fatigued. Well if they forcibly put the tracking devices o!n the trucks then they should use them for more than just monitoring the drivers where about. I understand that truck drivers are pushed by their bosses and paid by the mile and for the mile.
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