The Road

Young people from the age of sixteen are well-known for their risky driving behaviours on the road.

Certain issues can affect driving patterns on the road, such as:

• drinking
• drugs / hallucinating
• peer pressure
• rushing (lateness)
• environment
• fatigue
• distractions
• mobile phones
• night time = poor vision

Although the driver is the individual making the decisions, therefore it is the individuals fault if any consequences occur.

Drink Driving and drugs along with speeding is clearly not safe!

When an individual has alcohol in their system, many consequences can occur;
drink driving can cause someone to not think properly; they may make wrong judgements, such as speeding AND this can affect the driver, the passenger/s, and pedestrians.

STATISTICS SHOW THAT :

• 30 per cent of all fatal drink drive crashes occur between 9 pm and 3 am on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

You've probably figured out why those days are common...
- Usually during Friday and Saturday nights, late night parties begin...
So what do people do...

1. They rock up at parties,
2. they drink alcohol or consume drugs,
3. they then drive on the roads, and ...

 Teenagers may face an accident as...

... they may be on their...

• mobile phones

or... they may have...

• loud music

or... they may be peer pressured by teenaged friends to...

• speed

or... worse... they may not have...

• seatbelts on

these are all distractions to the driver; this is not acceptable to the society

don't turn a night out into a nightmare!

If a car is involved in a serious accident, not only does the driver and passenger/s become hurt, but pedestrians tend to get hit and hurt as well.

another reason:

FATIGUE (this is where an inidividual is sleepy, drowsy or basically can't stay awake).

if this happens whilst driving, then there is a chance that a dangerous accident may occur!

pedestrians

Pedestrians need to be able to concentrate to their surrounding area, they must obey road signs, for their own safety and for drivers too. Pedestrians are not to distract drivers in any form.

They must not only concentrate on:

• mobile phones
• gaming gadgets
• music from music players (earphones plugged in ear with loud music)

by not concentrating on the surrounding area, passengers may find themselves in trouble as they may not look where they're walking, or they be unaware that a certain car may be heading straight to the pedestrian... and they may find themselves...

 

mobile phones  

Mobile Phones are common and are used regularly... basically they must be touched and handled by most teenagers.

It is against the law for a driver (learner, and provisional drivers) to use a phone whilst driving.

But we all know teenagers and mobile phones...

mobile phones are a great risk to drivers, they are one of the distractions to drivers, that

is why they are illegal to use WHILST driving.

they cause accidents

they cause injuries

they cause deaths.

                                                     

ROAD DEATH STATISTICS

The graph above shows the road deaths of people that have died in 2009 and 2010.
There is a 10% reduction in road deaths in 2010 (1368 deaths) from 2009 (1507 deaths).
Positively, in most states and territories the road deaths have decreased in 2010 (Queensland has shown a rapid change from 331 deaths in 2009 decreased to 247 road deaths in 2010).
However, there are other states and territories such as WA, NT, ACT and VIC that have an increase in the number of road deaths.

 NSW driver fatal crashes between 10pm-5am as a percentage of total by age group 2001-2003 (RTA, 2004)

Being Safe whilst driving on the road is EXTREMELY important;
driver must concentrate!
passenger must not distract driver in any way!

We've all heard it so many times...
- be careful of roads
- drive safely
- don't drink and drive
- Stop. Revive. Survive.

Driving

The speedway ends at the cemetery (author unknown)