文档介绍：ACCIDENTS
Unit 12
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North Carolina Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association
Accident prevention programs
Four traditional accident prevention programs have been used for the last 100 years in an attempt to prevent traffic accidents and resulting injuries.
A. Driver licensing - The purpose of driver licensing is only petent drivers on the highways. This includes getting the worst drivers off the road.
B. Engineering - Engineering of both vehicles and highways to reduce the probability of an accident.
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North Carolina Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association
Accident prevention programs
Four traditional accident prevention programs have been used for the last 100 years in an attempt to prevent traffic accidents and resulting injuries.
C. Enforcement of traffic law - Compliance with traffic laws is in direct proportion to the perceived level of enforcement. Without enforcement of traffic laws, we would have chaos.
D. Education - Driver and traffic safety education attempts to reduce the number of accidents by education of beginning drivers, education of problem drivers as well as public service ads designed toward the general population. . "Friends don't let fiends drive drunk.
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North Carolina Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association
"Loss reduction" in traffic study.
Loss reduction is an acceptance that we can not prevent all accidents from occurring.
Therefore, we must do what we can do to reduce losses when accidents do take place specifically loss of life, injuries and property damage.
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North Carolina Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association
Number of deaths, injuries, and amount of economic loss due to motor vehicle accidents each year in the United States.
There are about 42,000 deaths
2,000,000 serious injuries
$100 billion lost in traffic accidents each year in the US
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North Carolina Driver and Traffic Safety