Another big problem on the road is no seatbelts; the chances of dying in a crash are raised by nearly 30% higher than if you were wearing a seatbelt. Some people will see wearing a seatbelt as un-cool and not impressive, some people just can’t be bothered to wear a seatbelt. I think that most people today are just used to putting on a seatbelt and don’t think twice, for me it’s the first thing I do because I have always had to from a young age and now I just do it.
Wearing a seatbelt is seriously dangerous and not just for you, if you are in the front of the car there is a big chance that you can go through the windscreen and go quite a long way depending on the speed the car you are travelling in crashes, if you are in the back seat then you don’t only run the risk to yourself, you can hit the person in front of you and cause serious damage to the person in front of you.
I asked a fire fighter from East Sussex fire brigade about the problems of not wearing seatbelts and he said this “it’s amazing how many people aren’t wearing seatbelts on our roads. It is such a danger for people to not wear seatbelts; they can stop you being thrown through your windscreen. The amount of crashes I have had to go to and seen a body laying 50ft away from the car is scary. It’s just as dangerous for someone in the backseat to not wear a seatbelt because they aren’t putting just themselves at risk. Whatever the speed the car is doing, the person will go head first into the seat in front of them and injure the person in front of them”.
Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety-related behaviour 63% of people killed in accidents are not wearing seat belts. Wearing a seat belt use is still the single most effective thing we can do to save lives and reduce injuries on British roads. Data suggests that education alone is not doing the job with young people, especially males ages 16 to 25 the age group least likely to buckle up. Seat belts are the most effective safety devices in vehicles today, estimated to save 9,500 lives each year. Yet only 68 percent of the motor vehicle occupants are buckled. If 90 percent of people in Britain buckle up, we will prevent more than 5,500 deaths and 132,000 injuries annually. The cost of unbuckled drivers and passengers goes beyond those killed and the loss to their families. We all pay for those who don't buckle up in higher taxes, higher health care and higher insurance costs. On average, inpatient hospital care costs for an unbelted crash victim are 50 percent higher than those for a belted crash victim. Society bears 85 percent of those costs, not the individuals involved. Every American pays about $580 a year toward the cost of crashes. If everyone buckled up, this figure would drop significantly. By reaching the goal of 90 percent seat belt use, and 25 percent reduction in child fatalities, about 8.8 billion will be saved annually.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
reckless driving - speeding and peer pressure
Speeding has become one of the main driving offences to be listed under “reckless driving”. It is becoming more and more common on the roads as faster cars are being designed and people are getting more impatient. The fire fighter I questioned said this “speeding is becoming increasingly dangerous as more and more people do it, people see one person getting away with it so think its ok to do it themselves. Some of the crashes I’ve had to go to have been horrendous, most of these crashes have been teenagers and it’s a horrible sight to see. Speeding is very dangerous no matter how good a driver you are because the faster you’re going the more dangerous the crash will be. It can be very dangerous for everyone and creates a bigger and harder job for us as we have to pull more than one person out of wreckage. Nothing can prepare you for what you will see”
Another big killer that comes under the category of “reckless driving” is peer pressure because it can cause young drivers to show off to look cool in front of their friends. It can be very dangerous and lots of crashes have been caused because of it. When I asked the fire fighter about this he said “ the amount of RTC’s (road traffic crashes) I have had to go to and seen a group of young men in a car dead is crazy, I go to nearly two a week and they are all caused by showing off. So many innocent people have died because of young boys showing off, you can’t help but feel a little anger towards the boy driving when there are other people dead because them being stupid and acting like an idiot. Each Year over 5,000 teens ages 16 to 20 Die due to fatal injuries caused Car accidents. About 400,000 drivers age 16 to 20 will be seriously injured.
Another big killer that comes under the category of “reckless driving” is peer pressure because it can cause young drivers to show off to look cool in front of their friends. It can be very dangerous and lots of crashes have been caused because of it. When I asked the fire fighter about this he said “ the amount of RTC’s (road traffic crashes) I have had to go to and seen a group of young men in a car dead is crazy, I go to nearly two a week and they are all caused by showing off. So many innocent people have died because of young boys showing off, you can’t help but feel a little anger towards the boy driving when there are other people dead because them being stupid and acting like an idiot. Each Year over 5,000 teens ages 16 to 20 Die due to fatal injuries caused Car accidents. About 400,000 drivers age 16 to 20 will be seriously injured.
Drive time animation idea and sentences
Drive time animation in sentences
What I will make is an animation of a person driving along the road not wearing his seatbelt and slightly speeding. He will then see a car pull out ahead of him, he will try to break heavily but without success. He will then swerve to avoid the car by going into the other lane on the road, there will be another car coming along. The person without the seatbelt will crash into the other car head on at 50mph and go through the windscreen and travel through the air before landing in the road and being hit by another car. This will cause him to be sent up in the air and come crashing down onto the road and dying.
This will hopefully give the watcher of this a reason to wear their seatbelts if they don’t already.
Sentences describing the series of events:
1. Go to a shot of the man driving his car so you can clearly see that he isn’t wearing a seatbelt.
2. Go to a shot from the drivers point of view so you can see the speed he is doing and the road ahead
3. While in the drivers point of view see a car pull out just ahead of him
4. Turn to see the drivers face looking scared and shocked because of the car pulling out in front of him
5. Will be a shot of the car swerving into the other side of the road in an attempt to avoid the car, this will be in a bird’s eye view
6. Still in the bird’s eye view we will see another car coming along the road head on to the car with the person without a seatbelt.
7. The camera will go to a view of the other driver that is seeing the car swerve onto the other side of the road and coming head on
8. There will be the head on crash
9. There will be a bird’s eye view of the man flying out of the windscreen
10. He will land and roll along the road
11. He will be hit by another car and sent into the air
12. He will land back on the road in a heap dead
What I will make is an animation of a person driving along the road not wearing his seatbelt and slightly speeding. He will then see a car pull out ahead of him, he will try to break heavily but without success. He will then swerve to avoid the car by going into the other lane on the road, there will be another car coming along. The person without the seatbelt will crash into the other car head on at 50mph and go through the windscreen and travel through the air before landing in the road and being hit by another car. This will cause him to be sent up in the air and come crashing down onto the road and dying.
This will hopefully give the watcher of this a reason to wear their seatbelts if they don’t already.
Sentences describing the series of events:
1. Go to a shot of the man driving his car so you can clearly see that he isn’t wearing a seatbelt.
2. Go to a shot from the drivers point of view so you can see the speed he is doing and the road ahead
3. While in the drivers point of view see a car pull out just ahead of him
4. Turn to see the drivers face looking scared and shocked because of the car pulling out in front of him
5. Will be a shot of the car swerving into the other side of the road in an attempt to avoid the car, this will be in a bird’s eye view
6. Still in the bird’s eye view we will see another car coming along the road head on to the car with the person without a seatbelt.
7. The camera will go to a view of the other driver that is seeing the car swerve onto the other side of the road and coming head on
8. There will be the head on crash
9. There will be a bird’s eye view of the man flying out of the windscreen
10. He will land and roll along the road
11. He will be hit by another car and sent into the air
12. He will land back on the road in a heap dead
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