Safety Measures For Road Travelers
It was the 20,000 member organization of lawyers
, called The American trial lawyers association, who wanted to end the highway tragedy that has long been plaguing the entire country, beckoning the federal government to attack and create a national safety czar to handle this problem and for this, they have already executed a wide ranging white document.
The foreword of the report includes the national trial lawyers association's president predicting that deaths from motor vehicle accidents would keep soaring with further millions of persons being wounded until government agencies finally find an end to this.
He charged this brusquely, saying that it was equipment as incontestable fact that the federal government has no goals of stopping these highway slaughters that have become so rampant. He asked the help of all psychiatrists, law enforcement agencies, lawyers, judges, legislators, insurance and auto industries and the advertising and news media, even scientists, to contribute their efforts to overcome public apathy and become more concerned.
Just like what the ships, airplanes or trains and ships abide by, there ought to be strict security standards on the maintenance and design of cars and the report has stated these recommendations so that the federal government can act against the growing lack of concern for safety on car and tire manufacturers today.
In this very report it was stated that roadside slaughters were seen as a harsh and seemingly incurable woes and so the federal, state and local governments together should learn to strictly prioritize it.
The federal government curing the ailments on awful road safety standards is basically what the chief recommendation of the trial lawyers entail. Congress, in the white paper, was called on to act on creating a National Director of Highway safety and make sure that he is also given enough power, funds and staffing.
A bureau for driver licensing was proposed as this can hold and control licensing and make sure there shall be uniform standards too. Pressure from local politics caused awful loopholes in the area of licensing.
In the arena of licensing, the trial lawyers would make mandatory the physical and eye examinations at three years? time, raising the minimum age limit for drivers to 18, excluding for 16 year olds who have passed a certified drivers' education lessons, require the driver's picture be on his license card, and require renewal applications to be in the form of sworn accounts and affidavits providing stringent penalties for lying under oath.
Solutions, a series of them was given by the report once it was established that 55 percent of all the road accidents most fatal were due to driving under alcohol influence.
The driver would lose his license if he is deemed driving under alcohol influence so it must be included that the blood alcohol level should be lessened to 0.1 percent. The minimum standards for car and tire safety should be upheld and the document shows that there is a must for interstate commerce matters to be controlled by government.
It was evident that up to 35 miles per hour crashes can leave victims alive if only cars had these three basic changes done, states the document.
With impact speeds of 35 miles or below, 87 percent of accidents arise. The uncomplicated fundamental modifications are as follows doors that remain closed in a crash, shoulder harnesses in all automobiles, plus collapsible course plotting placements.
Features that will ensure and heighten safety with adequate design features were proposed strongly by the American trial lawyers association through their safety committee such as padded head supports to prevent whiplash damage, disc brakes on all wheels with dual braking systems, hydraulic bumpers to absorb a greater amount of impact, more use of light body colors, headlights and taillights visible from the side as well as the front, safety wheels, cornering lights that will illumine the area in which the car is turning, permanent blinking forewarning systems, built in the car's body which is ideal for emergencies and not to forget, complete elimination of X frames.
Laws done by the federal government that will dictate minimum tire safety and performance principles through unvarying classification with very comprehensible language has been suggested by the group after pointing out that there are no state limitations at all when it comes to automobile travel.
by:John Chambers
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