I need it for Social Studies class
Drunk-Driving Fatalities 1982-2007
The number of fatalities in drunk-driving crashes has declined 38 percent since 1982, going from 21,113 in 1982 to 12,998 in 2007. There were 8,100 fewer drunk-driving fatalities in 2007 than in 1982.
I am specifically looking for any fatal motorcycle accidents involving a male around August 23, 2006.
Google, KPLC. It’s the local Lake Charles television station.
If you can’t find it on google, go to raycommedia.com. It’s a Raycom Media station. They have an archive file which you can search. If for some reason, you can’t find it. Try e-mailing one of the reporters to see if maybe they could find something for you.
Their good people and friends of mine. Hope you find it.
When you look at other factors such as seat belt use and the safety of newer cars, it seems as though the argument that raising the drinking age to 21 didn’t do that much to lower the risk of death in car crashes. You look at history and when car crash fatalities were highest was in the 60s and 70s when the legal drinking age was 18, but seat belt regulations also weren’t in place, and crash test dummies didn’t get used until the late 70s.
I’m sure that you’re right. The drinking age is pretty much meaningless. What is means is that you can now drink in bars and buy your own alcohol. People drink WELL before they are 21. They also drink and drive WELL before they are 21. What I think will make a difference is raising the driving age to 18 and requiring a full year of driving with a licensed driver in the car before you can get your license. That is what will make a difference. Teenagers will still drink, but they won’t have cars to drive around drunk in. Anyone who thinks that the drinking age is something anyone respects must be living in a cave.
I was exiting the freeway to the right while slowing to the posted limit of 35MPH. I yielded to the cars on the left (on the main street) to make a safe lane change. As the last car drove over the overpass passing me (at a higher speed than mine) I signaled to change lanes to the left. As I was halfway into the lane the last car (going 40-55MPH, mind you this is pass the posted limit) that passed me, before I changed, suddenly came to a complete stop with more than a car lengths in front of him. I had to veer to the left as much as possible to avoid colliding with his rear bumper, even into the next lane to the left. I ended up hitting his back left bumper with my front right one.
There were no witnesses to the accident. The driver called 911 at least 6 times trying to get an officer to the location. 911 instructed him to just exchange information with me, and that since there were no injuries no police report was necessary.
I found this California vehicle code online, and wonder if it will apply in my favor in this situation.
http://law.onecle.com/california/vehicle/26454.html
His vehicle was a Mazda 3, I looked online and it is about 15 feet in length.
Any advice-lawyers? Claim adjusters? Officers?
Is there anything else I can use in my defense?
Correction I posted the link to the wrong code. If you are NOT A LAWYER/CLAIMS ADJUSTER/OFFICER. please refrain from answering this question. I don’t need any advice from a gardener/non expert
Plain and simple…You hit him in the rear. It is your fault. You did not properly adjust your speed or following distance.
Jan 16
I believe that people should not drink and drive… jus recently a student from my school died in a drunk driving accident. A few years ago i thought that i couldn’t do anything.. that kids had no control over something like this, an that we could do nuttin to prevent it. However, i decided that enough is enough. We teens can do something about this an i want to. However i can’t seem to find a program about drunk driver for me to join in West Warwick, RI. I am sixteen by the wayy. An i know this may sound crazy but i am DEATHLY afraid of car accidents.. The site of a recked up car makes me sick, an i hav nitemares.. but i am willing to deal with those symptoms if i can do anything to help decrease the death rate in drunk driving. So if anybody knows any programs for sixteen year olds in west warwick, RI i would appreciate it.
try S.A.D.D (Students Against Drunk Driving) s.a.d.d.org
if there is not one in your area, this will give you the information you need to help you start one.
I’m proud of you for wanting to make a stand. Don’t live in fear, put your trust in Jesus Christ and Good luck getting this off the ground!
I am not sure when it happened but I do know that it was in the 90s and what city and state. I also know the names of the vitims involoved. Is there a website to help find the story?
No website would have news stories that old but the city’s newspapers are in the library on microfiche. Go to or call the city’s library and ask for the reference desk. They will do the research for you for a fee or show you how to do it free.
We did this test in physics where we crashed cars into walls and other cars. I was wondering how you would explain what happens during a car crash, and what variables can you change to change the car crash. I know that mass and acceleration are two variables. Any help would be appreciated.
I am on the faculty of a science museum, and we do this sort of thing all the time.
Let’s keep it a bit simple and apply a car crash to Newton’s Three Laws of motion.
1) A body at rest will remain at rest and a body in motion will remain in motion in a straight line until acted upon by an outside force.
—When a car crashes into something, even if the front part of the car has been stopped, the back part of the car is continuing in a straight line. This is why cars crumple in.
2) Force = Mass times Acceleration
The greater the mass of the crashing car, the greater the resulting force. Same thing for the Acceleration. The more acceleration inherent in the car, the greater the force. Of course, if two cars are heading straight for each other, the Accelerations are added. Which is why head-on collisions are so frightful.
3) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If the car exerts a force on a wall, then the wall exerts an equal and opposite force back onto the car. (Otherwise the car wouldn’t get damaged at all.
That’s probably the main thing your teacher’s wanting to get you to understand.
But here are a few other things that could be taught when discussing collisions:
–Heat created by the friction of the two cars smashing into each other.
–Coefficients of friction if the car tried to break before the impact.
–Projectile and trajectory if there was someone in the car who gets thrown out of the car.
Anyway, I hope that’s all helpful.
Science smiles,
Quill.
She was traveling from Missouri or Mississippi to California, her birth name was Kimberly Simmons.
I’m sorry to hear that you lost a friend.
I was unable to find anything with the info you’ve provided, but hopefully you can do better…
1) You need to know the current name, as it will be very difficult to locate her with her birth name (if it has changed).
Also try to find out where the accident occurred. There is a lot of distance between the midwest (or the south) and California. Do you know her home town, and her age?
(I found several accidents regarding a Kimberly Simmons, but I don’t think they have anything to do with your friend – one was a 24 yr old, another 40 yrs old, and both accidents were several years ago.)
The more of this info you know, the better the chances you will find something on the Internet.
2) Here are some tips that have helped me locate such information.
a) If you can find the name of the county or the town, do searches with the name of the town, using
+accident + kimberly+ "name of town"
b) If you cannot find anything that way, look for local newspapers or TV stations:
+"name of town" +newspaper
+"name of town" +media
+"name of town" +TV stations
Then when you find the paper or the TV station, do searches on their site (especially in "archives") to see if you can find articles about your friend.
c) Look for obituaries – these would be in your friend’s hometown paper, but they will not appear until about 3-7 days after the death. These may actually show the birth name, so you may have to keep searching for a week or more.
Good luck to you.
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