Road Safety
Road Safety. Essay
On January 19th, 2010 in Melbourne. 5 teenagers died after driving home after a party, losing control and driving into a tree.Road safety is needed to live everyday life. To know the rules are important to ensure road safety. Being safe on our roads is vital because it affects everyone from cyclists to children walking to school. Every person should get involved in road safety because killing a child is not worth an appointment that you may miss. Every year more and more people are dying from a car whether they are driving, the passenger or just the un-likely person that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. People do not realise but using our roads is the biggest safety risk. Research shows that using our roads are the most likely death between people from 4-44. Australia has become a world leader in road safety, from drink-driving laws, bicycle helmets and vehicle design rules to wearing seatbelts. Accident rates have more than halved between 1970 and 2000 Still Every time I pass one of those roadside memorials and I think of the family affected, the funeral, the loss of a Mum or Dad, brother or sister.
Think about it more than 1.2 million people die in road traffic crashes every year and you may think that does not matter because you do not know them but what if it was you, your mum or your dad? As many as 50 million people are injured or disabled by road traffic crashes every year, imagine not being able to even make a sandwich or walk to school.
It is amazing how we can now get patients to emergency rooms, deliver relief at the sites of disasters and take holidays in places we would not have been able to visit before transport was invented but we still have to be careful. During the course of any day, the tragic news of a death on the road is delivered about 3000 times to families and friends. Our government’s plans are just the beginning of what will hopefully be safe and happy
On January 19th, 2010 in Melbourne. 5 teenagers died after driving home after a party, losing control and driving into a tree.Road safety is needed to live everyday life. To know the rules are important to ensure road safety. Being safe on our roads is vital because it affects everyone from cyclists to children walking to school. Every person should get involved in road safety because killing a child is not worth an appointment that you may miss. Every year more and more people are dying from a car whether they are driving, the passenger or just the un-likely person that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. People do not realise but using our roads is the biggest safety risk. Research shows that using our roads are the most likely death between people from 4-44. Australia has become a world leader in road safety, from drink-driving laws, bicycle helmets and vehicle design rules to wearing seatbelts. Accident rates have more than halved between 1970 and 2000 Still Every time I pass one of those roadside memorials and I think of the family affected, the funeral, the loss of a Mum or Dad, brother or sister.
Think about it more than 1.2 million people die in road traffic crashes every year and you may think that does not matter because you do not know them but what if it was you, your mum or your dad? As many as 50 million people are injured or disabled by road traffic crashes every year, imagine not being able to even make a sandwich or walk to school.
It is amazing how we can now get patients to emergency rooms, deliver relief at the sites of disasters and take holidays in places we would not have been able to visit before transport was invented but we still have to be careful. During the course of any day, the tragic news of a death on the road is delivered about 3000 times to families and friends. Our government’s plans are just the beginning of what will hopefully be safe and happy