Car Accidents

[jdinny]

im gonna take a wild guess and say advances in healthcare are more related to lower deaths than anything else.
if you look at the USA stats for pre term babies your gonna see we have a lot of deaths...were also one of the few that will see a 23 week old live... point being were saving/trying to save people that would be 6ft under anywhere else. like ive said before you can skew a stat however you want but mortality rate is going down because advances in healthcare and vehicle safety. that doesn't mean there any less crashes today

 

[LBrandt]

Faster horse's, more whisky, younger drivers.

 

[Up Y'oars]

I totally agree. In the past I've kept track of cell phone users and texters (both) over a thirty day period, either on the way to work or on the way home from work. Simple Male vs. Female and <21yo vs. Senior Citizen. The highest rating I came up with after thirty days was 2.7:1 female vs. male (close to triple the amount of phone users are females). Texting was a similar result with females and <21yo as the highest people dabbing their thumbs on the damn key pad.

I ride motorcycle, as well, so I've chewed out a few people as they drive. They had no clue a motorcyclist was in the next lane because their attention was looking down rather than looking around. It's the shits when you see a driver in front of your vehicle is bobbing their head up/down 30x per minute. I love pulling up next to them on a four lane street and pull my dash cam to the side window. They drop their phones FAST! They don't like their actions being videotaped.

Police only write tickets when they're conducting a saturation operation for an offense (selt belt use, distracted driving, construction zone, etc.) and I conclude that the overall percentage of citations jump up during these windows of opportunity and drastically fall when the saturation operation is completed. There are so many laws law enforcement has to choose which offenses are even worthy of pulling someone over.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Put the fines up to $1,000. for first offense and $2,000 and loss of license for 30 days for second offense and go up from there if they haven't learned their lesson!

 

[WormWiggler]

harummpp. I can text and drive, not rocket science just need to know which task has priority along with when and where.