Car Accidents - Sometimes Drivers or the Cars Fault
Posted by admin | Under Law Sunday Nov 29, 2009
Lindsay Nolan asked:
Car accidents occur due to many reasons. Car accidents are also called road traffic accidents RTAs. They may be due to the negligence of the drivers or maybe the driver was too young or not properly trained. Accidents occur due to the public neglecting traffic rules and regulations, at places of signals, using cell phones while in traffic, teenage driving, unconditioned vehicles etc. Proper lanes should be provided by every government, wide advertisement banner free roads, fluorescent indicators throughout the roads medical facility at proper distances to give first aid to the injured at highways, obstacle free pathway etc. The government should check these criterions regularly.
Unconditioned cars or after using few years cars are condemned at regular period in most of the countries. This helps to avoid few types of accidents. Rear end collisions, head on collisions, car wrecks and roll on collisions are some of the types. Rear end collisions are of two types, both moving and one at rest and other moving. The second one is whiplash and in that when a car is not in mobility i.e, at rest and another car, which is moving, collides with the stationery one into the rear part of it. The neck is in rest position and the persons wearing of seat belt undergo injury around neck area also known as whiplash. The neck is thrown forward when tied with a seat belt. This is also caused because when a person suffers from a sudden jolt to their head or body. The sudden jolting causes damages to the muscles, soft tissues, ligaments in the neck and tendons.
Car wrecks happen due heavy truck collision. These occur due to unlicenced drivers. The claiming person may get up to $400,000 to $500,000 from an insurance company. These car accidents kill atleast 1.2 million people worldwide every year, 40 times of the killed will be the injured ones each year. Roll over have become more common in recent years, perhaps due to the increase in popularity of taller vans and people carriers. Rollovers can often be fatal, especially if the occupants are ejected because they were not wearing seat belts. When the driver did not wear a seat belt 83% of ejections during rollovers were fatal. When seat belts are worn only 25% are numbered. Rollovers have contributed to more than 10,000 deaths for 1 year even though they only account for about 3 % on overall car accidents.
Backup collisions happen when a driver reverses the car into an object, person, or other car. Although most cars have facility in such a way that rear view mirrors which are adequate for detecting vehicles behind a car, they are inadequate facility for detecting small children or objects close to the ground, which fall in the car’s blind spots.
Measures taken to avoid car accidents are: -
1. The government must provide good roads, with as many safety measures like speed breakers and traffic signs. There should be traffic lights at all the important and dangerous crossings.
2. The car owner must ensure that he maintains his car in good condition. Servicing the vehicle, having the right kind and size of tires with proper air is a must too.
3. While driving on wet roads don’t over speed and never let your car fish tail.
4. Always follow the traffic rules and never jump signals or lanes.
5. Be a responsible citizen and don’t drive under the influence of alcohol.
6. While backing up in a crowded area always look through your rear mirror and reverse slowly or else get your co driver to get down and help you.
Car accidents occur due to many reasons. Car accidents are also called road traffic accidents RTAs. They may be due to the negligence of the drivers or maybe the driver was too young or not properly trained. Accidents occur due to the public neglecting traffic rules and regulations, at places of signals, using cell phones while in traffic, teenage driving, unconditioned vehicles etc. Proper lanes should be provided by every government, wide advertisement banner free roads, fluorescent indicators throughout the roads medical facility at proper distances to give first aid to the injured at highways, obstacle free pathway etc. The government should check these criterions regularly.
Unconditioned cars or after using few years cars are condemned at regular period in most of the countries. This helps to avoid few types of accidents. Rear end collisions, head on collisions, car wrecks and roll on collisions are some of the types. Rear end collisions are of two types, both moving and one at rest and other moving. The second one is whiplash and in that when a car is not in mobility i.e, at rest and another car, which is moving, collides with the stationery one into the rear part of it. The neck is in rest position and the persons wearing of seat belt undergo injury around neck area also known as whiplash. The neck is thrown forward when tied with a seat belt. This is also caused because when a person suffers from a sudden jolt to their head or body. The sudden jolting causes damages to the muscles, soft tissues, ligaments in the neck and tendons.
Car wrecks happen due heavy truck collision. These occur due to unlicenced drivers. The claiming person may get up to $400,000 to $500,000 from an insurance company. These car accidents kill atleast 1.2 million people worldwide every year, 40 times of the killed will be the injured ones each year. Roll over have become more common in recent years, perhaps due to the increase in popularity of taller vans and people carriers. Rollovers can often be fatal, especially if the occupants are ejected because they were not wearing seat belts. When the driver did not wear a seat belt 83% of ejections during rollovers were fatal. When seat belts are worn only 25% are numbered. Rollovers have contributed to more than 10,000 deaths for 1 year even though they only account for about 3 % on overall car accidents.
Backup collisions happen when a driver reverses the car into an object, person, or other car. Although most cars have facility in such a way that rear view mirrors which are adequate for detecting vehicles behind a car, they are inadequate facility for detecting small children or objects close to the ground, which fall in the car’s blind spots.
Measures taken to avoid car accidents are: -
1. The government must provide good roads, with as many safety measures like speed breakers and traffic signs. There should be traffic lights at all the important and dangerous crossings.
2. The car owner must ensure that he maintains his car in good condition. Servicing the vehicle, having the right kind and size of tires with proper air is a must too.
3. While driving on wet roads don’t over speed and never let your car fish tail.
4. Always follow the traffic rules and never jump signals or lanes.
5. Be a responsible citizen and don’t drive under the influence of alcohol.
6. While backing up in a crowded area always look through your rear mirror and reverse slowly or else get your co driver to get down and help you.