DANGERS OF SPEEDING AND CARELESSNESS ON THE ROAD
People who speed cause the greatest risks on roads compared to other causes of accidents. Speeding is a major factor in more than a third of all the crashes that are fatal. Speeding above the set speed limit may lead to a number of dangers. Speeding normally reduces the stopping time of a vehicle. Taking a lot of time to stop increases the chance of crashing. It also increases the chances of an accident. It may as well increase the severity of a crash if an accident happens. Even though people have been told of the different dangers of speeding, they still speed and exceed the set speed limits. Speeding is dangerous and may be a cause of a lot of dangers on the road.
Speeding is a major factor in road accidents since it is a cause of more than thirty percent of all the fatal accidents that happen on the highway. These accidents cause the death of more than one thousand Americans in every month. Speeding is a problem to both the highways and the back road too. Many people choose taking back roads so they can avoid traffic. A lot of accidents occur on back roads because people speed and are careless because there is typically less traffic.
One of the dangers of speeding is the reduction of the period that a person may take to stop. The more a person speeds, the less the period of time they have to react to something on the road. When a person drives at a high speed, the time the vehicle may take to stop is greatly increased. This shows that the more the speed a person is driving, the more the chances causing an accident. If anything happens on the road, the person has a greater chance of crashing. Speeding leads to an increase in the number of road accidents in both the highways and the back roads.
Speeding may lead to more fatal accidents. Speeding may increase the chances of deaths and people getting hurt in case of a crash. When a vehicle is moving at a high speed, the stopping time is increased. In case of...