...My Car Accident Like any other Saturday, I was hanging out with my best friend, Lindsey. We had just left the Project Graduation car show, and were headed out Buckeye Road trying to get her home on time. We were playing loud music, laughing, swaying and talking about our boyfriend issues like normal. I hated to see the night end, so we sat in my car in her driveway hashing out our plans for next weekend. We hugged and she made me promise I would buckle up and be safe. Of course, I agreed to both, I put the car in reverse and backed out. As I was driving down twisting country roads thinking about our plans for next weekend, the thought of being in a car accident never crossed my mind. And then it happened. A bright red car came barreling at me head on. I panicked, and jerked my steering wheel. My car wheels dropped off the low shoulder. Suddenly, the car careened out of control, and everything went dark. I couldn’t see, but I could hear the screaming of brakes, smell of burning rubber, feel my body being jolted forward in a lifeless motion. I heard sounds of metal crunching, felt like I was soaring through the sky, and everything ended in a sudden hard stop and complete silence. The next thing I remember is someone cradling me, and talking to me and the sounds of sirens in the distance. I fade in and out of consciousness, but I can still feel the pain shooting through my body, and tears of fear flowing down my cheeks. I woke up with something obscuring my vision and hindering...
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...Fahad Al Ashban ENG107 A major accident I never expected that I would have a major accident, but I had a very strong accident that I saw my whole life in front of me and it was the first moment that I saw death in front of me. I was going to my friend’s house with my brand new car when I had an accident and my car went upside down. I didn’t know what happened to me or even what I did before I had this accident, and the thing that made it worse that I was going to my friend’s house to study with him for my final exam which was physics and it was two days after the accident. This accident changed my whole life and my whole understanding of driving a car, after this accident I started to put my seatbelt on when I drive and I started to drive more safely. The accident was three years ago in Saudi Arabia before my final exam, I was 17 years old at my 11th grade, at that time I liked to drive a lot because I recently took my driver license and I was very happy with it. I remember that when I would get bored from studying I would go to the grocery store that is a few meters away of our house with my car and after I get a coke from there I go around my neighborhood just because I want to drive and also because I am driving my brand new car. That car was Toyota, I remember that I suffered a lot to get this car; my father said always that I can’t get an expensive car because it’s my first car and the first car always should be a cheap car. He at first wanted me to take Yaris because...
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...were in a minor car accident. No one was hurt, but you are nonetheless a little rattled. How would you communicate your situation to family, friends, and classmates? What would be different if you had to communicate the situation to the insurance company? Write a message of 100 to 200 words either to your family, friends, or classmates. OMG! Joe I just got into a minor car accident. I don’t know what to do! I’m freaking out. I have never been in a car accident before, EVER! It was about 7:45am this morning and you know traffic is always crazy around that time. I knew I should of left earlier but let me tell you what happen, I was on my way to work on 101 and when I was merging onto highway 17 the car that was driving behind me was driving so fast that he rear ended my car. The back bumper is pretty scratched up. Now my car is ugly and you know how I am about my car I pulled over with the person and we exchange information. I also called the cops so they can come write an accident report so I can send it into my car insurance. I am pretty shaken up. I hope I get this car situation resolve soon. I’m not hurt or anything thank god! Write a formal letter of 100 to 200 words to the insurance company. Use salutations and sign-offs where appropriate. To, Jane Doe AllState Car Insurance 2670 S White Rd Ste 125 San Jose, CA, 95148 Dear Ms. Jane Doe, This letter is regarding an insurance claim on my car, which got damaged recently in an accident. On the 27th of...
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...threatening event occurs. My lesson came full circle June 18, 2004 at 7:00 pm. My family and I were leaving a family camping trip speeding down a two lane highway approaching a car at a standstill. Instead of running into the back of the car, my uncle swerved to the left driving on the wrong side of the road hitting a pothole which made him lose control of the car. The car flipped and slide into a dirt ditch heading toward a tree. My uncle was in the front seat where he was able to climb out of the car as I lay unconscious. All I remember is waking up with dirt in my mouth, the car sitting on my neck and people around me screaming in my ear. When the police arrived, I was unable to answer any of their questions because it took a little while for me to realize where I was. Luckily, the accident happen kind of close to home and someone was able to reach my family to let them know I was in a car accident. The hardest thing to accept about the accident is the fear of my family loosing me. I didn’t realize how hard that phone call would have been if that night ended differently. I walked away from the accident with ten stitches in my leg and three in my ear. The police officer didn’t write my uncle a ticket even though he was speeding on a two lane highway in the evening. He said my lesson was walking away because he has never seen someone walk away from an accident like that. It took a year before I was allowed to go back to bishop with my uncles. After having...
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...Decision: To purchase or not purchase rental car insurance In December of 2011, I will be traveling to Salem, Oregon to celebrate Christmas with my family. I have decided to stay for Christmas in Salem, Oregon for a week. The total trip is exactly a 1000 mile down the Interstate 5 highway each way from Oceanside, California to Salem, Oregon, and vice versa with a total of 2000 miles round trip. However, the expenses identified with air travel versus driving, I made my final decision to drive to Salem, Oregon, in a rental vehicle and not my car. Enterprise Rental is the one company that I choose that has a good rental plan at $9.99 a day for a weekend rate of three days. Because I am an excellent client with the company. Enterprise Rental has extended the weekend rate of three days to four days as an award of my loyalty as a client to the company for many years. Any extra days after the four days, the company will charge the $15.99 per day of the standard rate. This eliminates the taxes and insurance included with the daily rate. Taxes are naturally $3.00 dollars per day and will eliminate for this purpose of my decision. However, the insurance has no deductible per occurrence at $12.99 per day, which is included in this decision (Mankiw, G., 2003). My privately owned vehicle has an insurance policy that covers both comprehensive and collision claims and brings in a $500.00 deductible per occurrence. To make a final decision in purchasing the rental companies insurance...
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...Decision: Should I purchase Car Insurance on a Rental Car For every trip I take, I normally rent a car and have always purchased the rental car insurance coverage rental cars offer. Hertz provides economical rental plan of $9.99 per day for four day week rate in comparison to other car rental services. Expenses for extension exceeding reservation of car follow the rate of $17.99 per day along with tax charges of $3.00 per day. Insurance rate of accidence of body/collision is $12.99/day extra. Insurance amount will be reduced by $500.00 for any cases of accident in the claim. The decision of uncertainly in the present case requires selection between personal and car rental service provided insurance through application of probability concept. Research “Car Accident Statistics, Stats, Auto, Fatal, and Drunk Driving” provides the figure for probabilistic estimation of accidents as the chances of one in 16 cars being the case of collision. Once I got the data for odds of accidents, I focused on accurately interpreting my data to make right decision. I have to find the prediction of advantages of choosing car rental insurance over covering the claim in personal policy in forthcoming section. Interpretation of Data Applying Bayes’ Theorem I chose to use Bayes' theorem as the probability model to interpret my data because it is most applicable to my 2100 mile rental insurance decision. The Bayes' theorem emulates the process of logical inference by determining the degree...
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...after our week of being on vacation. I got in my sister’s car and sat in the passenger seat, like I always do. We weren't nearly close to being home when I realized how important my life was. I saw my life flash before my eyes in a split second, while hearing the screeching of the tires. There were vivid memories that stuck in my mind; home, happiness, and friends. The thought of how I took everything for granted. Suddenly the car jerked and a loud crushing of metal occurred. My chest was burning from the seatbelt, and somehow my forehead felt like it had been punched. This car accident made me realize how important life is and not to take home, happiness, and friends for granted. While listening to the tires yelling; my mind’s first thought was of home, of my family. Snow was falling on my nose and all six of us were in a huge Christmas tree farm. It is a competition each year to see which one of us finds the fattest and biggest Christmas tree to put in the living room. This was the memory that crossed my mind of my family. The memory of how I didn't tell them that I loved them that day, or even the day of the car accident. I had taken my family for granted; I didn't tell them just how much I loved them before the car accident. I thought about how my family would feel if my sister and I didn’t live through the accident. Thinking about my family made me realize just how important my life is. Happiness crossed through my mind as my body began to pull forward from the hard break...
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...ACCIDENT ESSAYS It was a very cold morning as it had been raining very heavily the previous night. As my mother was feeling a little under the weather, my sister volunteered to drive me to school. I had overslept and as a result, was running a bit late for school. We got into the car hurriedly. The road was already congested with traffic. It appeared that everyone was late as well. My sister was a careful driver and despite the fact I was already late, she refused to drive fast on the slippery road. I was lucky she was such a resolute and careful person because a few hundred meters away from the school, we witnessed a tragic accident. it all happened very quickly, as most accidents do. A car full of school children had made a left turning without signaling and as a result a school bus crashed into it. A few cars behind the school bus rammed into the bus as they could not brake in time and soon it became a pile up. The already congested road became jammed with vehicles that came to a crawl. I told my sister that I wanted to help the victims and she nodded silently. She brought the car to a halt not too far from the accident spot. The scene that greeted us was something I would never forget. It left an indelible imprint in my mind to date. The impact of the accident had plunged three school children out of the car. The driver, a lady, lay lifeless on the steering wheel. I rushed to the children who were preschoolers. Two of them were seriously hurt and bleeding profusely from...
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...Thirty seconds changed my life forever. That day, I was sitting at at a stop sign, the sun was shining, the radio was blasting, and I finally had my license. Everything was perfect. I looked left, looked right, looked left again and turned left, across traffic. Before I realized what was happening, I was hit on the driver's side by a car going well over the speed limit. It was all a blur and it felt like everything was moving in slow motion. I remember sitting in the middle of the intersection as other drivers jumped out of their cars and ran towards me. I had a moment of clarity and realized that my life had just changed, but my next choice would define my character. Remembering what I had been taught about being a good and safe driver, I immediately put on my blinkers, crawled out the passenger door and went to check on the other driver. He seemed alright, but his car definitely was not. The police...
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...Writing Car accidents Lisa Daniels Everest University Car accidents happen every day to innocent people, yet they are the victims. I think if everyone slowed down and cut out the distractions, pay attention to the road maybe less accidents would occur. I was in a really bad car accident when I was 17. It was a late night and I was heading to pick up and friend. I was driving a 1978 Monte Carlo. I was making a left hand turn, as I was doing so the light changed to red, and the guy that was heading towards me ran that light and hit me on the passenger side door. My left side of my head hit the driver’s side window, all of the impact from him hitting me jotted me out the passenger window, my car was on one side of the road on the side walk and I lying on the opposite side of the road on the sidewalk. Angel’s must have been with me that night. I was in a coma; my forehead was stitched up with 150 stitches. The first voice I heard was my mom’s asking how I was doing, I then heard the doctor tell my mom I may not make it. I was so happy to see my mom! I didn’t know who I was, where I was, or what happened to me but I recognized my mom right away. I am blessed to be alive!! I have been in 6 car accidents, but I only caused one. Remembering to pay attention to your surroundings and cutting out distractions while driving, turning the music down to hear the ambulance and police will help you to concentrate on the road. Phone calls, texts, yelling in the car are all distractions...
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...Road Speed Limits Professor: Kanyo 08/03/2011 Mid-Michigan Community College Abstract Most of nations have their own road speed limits. This is also an argumentative problem in the modern society. A number of people think that it is necessary to use speed limits to protect people because they believe that lower speed limit can decrease fatalities, injuries and property damage. Others believe that we need to change this policy because it cannot correspond with the development of car quality. According to the data from many car manufactures, the technology of vehicles has changed a lot. I think we do not need to maintain the old standard. We should make new policy to accommodate new technology and new society. Lower speed do not means safer and not fast speed means dangers. I am the one who wish government can change this policy because I think that changing the speed limit cannot only save our time but also boost our economy. Road Speed Limits Most of countries have their own speed limit; it is used to regulate the speed of road vehicles. Speed limits may define maximum, minimum or no speed limit and are normally indicated using a traffic sign. Speed limits are commonly set by the legislative bodies of nations or provincial governments and enforced by national or regional police or judicial bodies. The first speed limit legislation was created in the United Kingdom with the Locomotive Acts. Drives are required to control at a safe speed for...
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...responsible for the accident." How many times have we heard statements similar to these? A definition of responsible might be accountable, reliable, dependable, or trustworthy. Based on my observations and experiences, I believe many people have a problem translating that into their everyday lives. If something bad happens, it must be someone else's fault, or someone should have to pay. A few months ago, I was involved in my first car accident. I think it's pretty remarkable that this was my first accident, considering that I've been driving for almost thirty years. The accident itself was pretty traumatic. I was at a complete stop behind two cars that were turning left, when a large van traveling at about thirty-five mph rear-ended my car. I was fortunate to escape with only some large bruises and a very sore knee; however, the car didn't fare quite as well. What was more amazing than the accident itself were the actions of the young man who ran into my car. Instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he lied to the police and to his insurance company about the events that took place. His version was that he was driving behind me when I ran into the car in front of me, then bounced back into his van. Perhaps if he'd had more time he might have been able to concoct a more credible story, one that actually made sense. In the end, the police and his insurance company saw through his lies and everything was taken care of. But in the meantime, my car was towed away and I...
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...and driving intoxicated because of their consequences on a person’s ability to drive. Nevertheless, driving tired isn’t established as a treat by media commercials as much driving under the influence of alcohol or other substances stances. Although, it caused 100,000 crashes, and 1,550 deaths in the year of 2005 .Individuals often refuse to comply with road recommendations, and underestimate the consequences of driving tired causing fatal accidents. A person who attempts to drink and drive can be prevented by friends and family, but a drowsy driver is difficult to be recognized. As a person who once went through this type of experience, I tend to talk to people about the seriousness of this problem. Driving is not as simple as it looks. It requires making hundreds of decisions and being aware of every possible danger. The ability of a person to drive is impaired by fatigue. Under these circumstances, the person behind the wheel is more likely to be part of a car accident. Drivers tend to fall asleep on the road, and cause terrible accidents. Not only do they put the passengers in danger, but also other people in the road. Falling asleep while driving is very common, especially for those whose lifestyle choices cause them to miss hours of sleep....
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...driving.Texting while driving has caused many people on their phones and cause accidents. We shouldn’t text while driving. It will prevent people from getting into car accidents, and less damage to other things.I found this on my Argument Writing. I chose this because it has to so with how many people are their phones and just forget that they are driving and have to leave the phone in order not to get into any car crashes. Phones should not be permitted while people are driving. On one of my websites (advantage tech). Too many people have their phones everywhere they go, not that it’s bad or anything but we do need to get off of them a certain amount of time and start to do other necessary things instead of being on the phones. In conclusion, This is what I think of when it comes to car accident and texting while driving.All of us people love our phones and always want to have them everywhere we go and that can be a problem sometimes....
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...you have shown me, while also sending you an update in a concise email. However, as I typed, everything just poured out of me. Even though I cannot sit at a computer for very long without feeling immense pain in my neck, shoulders, back, and right hip, I powered through by typing a small amount at a time. I was quite shocked the by the intense urge I felt to convey my story. Although one reason that this email grew and evolved is simple, I felt a special desire to express what happened to you in particular. Firstly, I cannot tell you how much your email meant to me! With good reason, I would have totally...
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