I don’t have a car at present. And I don’t text and drive. But once I was in seat beside driver seat and driver had attention diverted for a moment and the whole car turned upside down in Katni MP. Car didn’t survived but We did. Earlier we helped two people. One fell from Bike with family. One was unconscious lying beside his bike with wife crying. There was a Neta who stopped but didn’t carry him in his van. Instead I took him to the Hospital. Even gave some money.
I later sold the Car to some Muslim who had accidental Car reselling Business. But what happened to the Law of Karma !! Sleeping perhaps.
Accident theory
Immediate cause Contributory cause
Unsafe acts Mental condition
Unsafe conditions Physical condition
Environmental condition
Supervisory safety performance
Accidents-
Unsafe acts-88% Unsafe conditions-10%
Behavior based
These four behavior that can lead to 4 critical errors
Rushing Eyes not on task
Frustration Mind not on task
Fatigue Line of fire
Complacency Balance/traction/grip
Some stats
Texting and driving is more dangerous than drinking and driving. Next to guns it is or will be the number one cause of deaths due to unsafe acts. If we discount suicides and homicides cars kills more than guns .
Texting while driving is a very serious offense, the consequences of this offense is not something to take lightly. If you want to continue being safe keep, your phones off for non-distraction while driving a vehicle. Think before you drive unsafe.
– Text messaging makes a crash 23 times more capable of existing
– More than 32 percent of drivers have confirmed they have been texting while driving
– Studies show and document that texting while driving is the number one source for distracted driving accidents.
– One out of five drivers a day engage in texting while driving that may cause fatal injury or critical car accidents
Cell phones are very distracting and conflicts with the driver’s attentiveness to the road, it only takes one second for an accident to occur. In addition, recent studies show driving while texting increases the chances to 400% for fatal accidents.
Four Major Mistakes Drivers Make While Driving
– Texting, which causes a driver to lose control of the steering wheel and road
– Making and accepting phone calls that distracts your attention from the road
– Sending emails also distract the driver, as he or she will have to take their eyes off
the road and steering will to submit an email
– Drivers who do all above thinking they can multitask and keep full attention while driving
Texting and Driving: A Brain Thing?
According to a survey done by the AAA (American Automobile Association) and the popular teenage girls’ magazine, Seventeen, almost 90% of teenagers admit to performing some kind of non-essential activity while driving, such as texting, eating, or talking on their phones.
The most popular reason stated (41%) is that they believe the activities performed take only a moment or two. 35% of the responders said that they didn’t think they would sustain an injury. Easing boredom was the reason given by 22% of the respondents. And finally, 21% explained that they are accustomed to be in contact with people at any moment.
Let’s face it. The majority of teenagers think of themselves as being invulnerable to danger. The pattern is probably as old as time itself, but these modern times we see it in their use of drugs, drinking, and participating in unprotected sex. They are constantly taking risks with their lives, doing things that many of them would never dream of doing 10 years into the future. Teens really believe they are immortal; they have no fear of the repercussions of their actions. They simply don’t believe that anything truly bad will ever happen to them.
It might not be completely their fault. In fact, the consistency of this behavior over the decades could be due to a developmental feature of the frontal lobes of the human brain. Simply put: the chemical process of “neuronal myelination” has not been completed and won’t be until we are around 25-30 years old. Without the myelination of the brain, our wiring is off. It’s like an unfinished electrical project: we have the infrastructure in place but the final connections have not been completed. Until our “project” is finished, we take all those crazy risks, once the project is finalized and working correctly, the risky behavior slows down or stops, and, perhaps most importantly, we begin to sense our immortality.
Perhaps if we can educate our teenagers, and their teachers and parents about this aspect of brain development, we can begin to combat the dangerous patterns of texting while driving. Until then, we will probably continue to struggle with the phenomena of risky behavior amongst the teenage population.
But I Just Have to Check…
Teenagers are smart beings who are normally known for their not-so-smart choices. You have to know they are smart because they spend all of their time in class, studying, or giving reports, right?
Wrong. They spend their days chatting with friends, texting other friends, making new friends with cool new phone apps and then chatting with them until they will be texting with them later. Communication is all the rage now– as opposed to fifty years ago when teenagers met at the pizza shop after school for a coke and some flirting. Times have changed and the teenager who is now driving himself around town has an undying urge to know who messaged him.
When the phone buzzes, it’s like a drug addiction. “I must know who that is and what they said…” is just as strong as needing the next heroin hit. It sounds silly, because it’s merely an electronic device. It’s not an actual addictive substance coursing through veins and causing physical damage. Or is it?
The electrical connection between the phone and the brain becomes bonded and the teenager feels only fulfilled when searching the screen with their eyes. Reading information and responding. This is home for a teenager, and taking that away is likely to cause a withdrawal episode.
Usually, a 20-minute drive to the store is too long to wait to find out who caused the buzz. “Must Check Now” syndrome has kicked in and the phone is used even in the most dangerous situations like driving. A teenager will text and drive, thinking they are immune to all accidents. Text, play, game, app away– until the end of time if they were allowed. It is illegal in certain states now, and there are billboards and commercials everywhere in the media warning against texting and driving. The teenagers continue to pull the phone out, search the screen, respond, and repeat.
Most have even had close calls on the road. Yet, they still text and drive. The need for knowledge is stronger than the fear of death. 4 in 10 teens admit to doing it, while the statistic should read 6 or 7 in 10 teens actually text and drive. Most don’t want to claim that they make the conscious choice to put themselves and others in danger.
They see the billboards and still choose to answer that all-encompassing text message, “Hey, What did you get from Taco Bell?” It’s that important.
Control Oneself and teens from Texting and Driving?
Texting and driving simply do not make a good pair. Yet, the temptation to answer a text message often becomes so overwhelming as to be impossible to ignore. There is a simple answer. The span of time between the arrival of a text message received and the time it takes to respond to it is relatively short. It actually takes more time to text while driving. By pulling the vehicle to stop in a safe place, the text message can be answered. Try this test. The next time it’s necessary to pull your vehicle to a stop, make note of how long that action took. Generally, it is less than two minutes. This indicates that any text message received will be answered in full safety in less than two minutes. Self-Control and Self-Discipline Help
All humans have the most difficulty with self-control and self-discipline. However, when personal safety or the safety of others is at stake, we learn the value of self-control and self-discipline. Habits can be broken. If texting while driving has become a habit, examine the level of self-control from the perspective of personal safety. Be honest and take notice of how little self-control and self-discipline adults and teens possess. One way to reinvent personal behaviors is denial of privileges and attaching consequences for lack of responsibility. This works well for adults and teens. It’s also important to stress the value of human life in the context of endangerment and jeopardy.
Teens often flirt with danger and place themselves in jeopardy. Teen texting and driving encompasses both danger and jeopardy. It is extremely important for parents to assess their teen’s sense of value of human life prior to purchasing any device that allows texting and driving simultaneously. Teens with a highly developed sense of personal responsibility are less likely to place themselves in danger or jeopardize their lives. It’s also important for parents to remember that teens, though they may rail against it, know they need discipline. Discipline teens who text and drive by denying them that which they value most. This punctuates the idea of consequences while driving home the need for teens to take responsibility for their actions.
Adults can also suffer the consequences of misguided decisions and bad judgment by denying themselves certain luxuries and pleasures. The degree of deprivation depends on the degree of lack of self-control and self-discipline.