Vehicle Accidents

In U.S., there are multiple laws that support disabled person that has helped them to have more than just living in the society as these set of laws have made them functionable where they can make living or put themselves in their field of interest. One law that has enabled people with one less limb or someone has disabilities is the handicap driving.

Disabled driving refers to the notion where people who have lost atleast on of their limb can drive their vehicle through requiring them to install special adjustments to drive their car accordingly. But, it is not that simple as they are assessed by the government just like other applicants for driving school and goes through same process of assessment for approval.

Among all U.S. states, Ohio lies among little-moderate or among middle ranks when talking about occurrence of accidents per year, though it is not a good news nor a bad news, it is still worrying for its citizens knowing that there is a moderate numbers car accidents, may it be minor or fatal accident, are occurring along Ohioan roads and that they may be fall victim or to cause one and put themselves in danger.

In most road accidents, specifically, rear-end and front-end car accidents, the first part on the car that would obviously take most of the initial damage, may it be minor or major accident, is the bumper. Bumpers were said to be designed as essential and initial protection system in most car as a feature by directly receiving initial damage from a car crash, no matter if it is minor or major. In addition, bumpers were engineered to protect the fuel container, hood, grill, radiators, and other parts, apart from driver and its occupants.

In some situation in a light collision, its depiction how bumpers are affected is that the plastic, which is the bumper is made of, is cracked or even just scrapes the paint when involved in a single vehicle collision or low speed traffic collisions. In serious collisions, the bumper would likely to split and even be thrown away due to speed and may affect the latter part of the car.

In terms of number in traffic accidents, minor accidents are significantly frequent compared to major and fatal crashes, but reported damages for both are rivaling in terms in property and physical damage as well as its reported delayed complications that resulted in disabilities and deaths. Minor accidents can happen literally everywhere such as in parking lots, highways, small roads, near house, etc., it can take in any form such such as rear-end and front bumps too.

Traffic accidents are unexpected and surprising, some people involved in a car crash would be left startled and in shock and result in fleeing from the scene. Even though it is a general knowledge that fleeing from a car accident, either you caused it or not, is illegal and is considered as an hit and run case of offense. Drunk people, amateur drivers, and illegal and “tag-less” cars are most common who are involved in a hit and run case.

According to the National Safety Council (NSC), the frequency of occurence of parked car related accidents is atleast one in five all across in U.S., it means that there are around 50,000 car crashes every year and it is found out that there were 6,000 people were injured in parked car related accidents in same time frame.

Most of parked car accidents are unintentional, factors contributing for it to occur such as populated car lots, tight parking spaces, and obstructed vision can make a parked car accident to occur but that doesn’t mean when no one saw that accident, driver at-fault could flee freely. That’s when the at-fault driver could make an offense for himself even if nobody was harmed.

There are many form of accidents along road because of different contributing factors such as type of road, weather condition, positioning of vehicle involved, as well as human and mechanical errors, all of them are usually not present when one occurred and even some or atleast one is present, the accident would differ from another which have other factor presented.

At a McDonald’s drive-thru branch in Vencouver, British Columbia, a man was killed by being crushed by his own car’s door that had happened around 5:30 a.m. According to the management’s suveillance video, while the man was paying for his order at his car window, he reached something as to be found out by the police as his bank card. While he opened the car window and leaned out to get them, his vehicle rolled forward that resulted in him hitting what the police report called “a structural piece of the restaurant”.

In U.S., there are some traffic laws that conflicts and applies state by state such as lane splitting which is only legal in California and the rest of the states still prohibits this type of practice for some reasons. Lane splitting is a traffic practice where motorcycle riders can merge over or in between lanes or rows of slow moving vehicles or on completely stopped traffic in the same direction, for others, it is called as whitelining or stripe-riding.

The frequency of road accident involving pedestrian is concerningly high, its fatality rate is increasing over the years as in the early years around 2017, 5,977 pedestrians have died in pedestrian-related traffic crashes in U.S. in that year alone, that is estimatedly one death in every more than 1 hour and 137,000 pedestrians have sustained significant injuries in the same form of road accident in the same year.