Assignment 7/23

Assignment 1)

8 places where it is unsafe to pass is at curves, intersections, railroads, hills, on a two-lane bridge or underpass, when the vehicle ahead is travelling at or near the speed limit, When your line of sight is limited by fog, snow, or rain, and When you cannot complete a pass before the start of a no passing zone.

Assignment 2) A car going 60 mph goes 90 ft per second. A car going 40 mph goes 60 ft per second. At these speeds it takes 3 sec to initiate the pass If the car is going 40 mph then this is 180 ft, and that is before you start to pass them. It takes 10 seconds to pass the slower car if you are going 60 mph which is 900 ft. Then it takes 2 seconds to return to your lane, which at 60 mph is 180 ft. The pass took 15 seconds. In that 15 seconds you covered 1260 ft, which is a little more than 3 and 1/3 the length of a Football Field.

Assignment 3)
1) Hybrid Car Crash Prompts Warning
Fire Official Says Electrical System Poses Threat
POSTED: 10:58 am EDT May 5, 2006
UPDATED: 11:59 am EDT May 5, 2006

BOSTON -- Rescuing crash victims from hybrid cars could pose additional safety concerns, according to a Massachusetts fire lieutenant.
The warning came after a recent car crash that left a woman trapped in a Toyota Prius in Marblehead. Officials said that Patricia Lee, 68, crashed her car Monday night on Washington Street.
When fire officials responded to the crash, Marblehead Fire Lt. Michael Porter said that in freeing Lee from the car, the vehicle posed a danger.

"These new hybrid cars can make our rescue process after a car wreck slightly more dangerous," Porter said. "Not only do we need to worry about disconnecting the battery, but we now need to worry about the possibility of being electrocuted by the car's additional high-powered electrical system."
Lee, who was not seriously injured in the accident, said that her brakes did not appear to be working at the time of the crash.

1) I guess, that even though hybrid cars get good gas milage, they are unsafe. It would be a bad thing if you got into a crash, were seriously injured, and they couldn't get you out because your car was eletricuting the firemen.

2) St. Johnsbury man injured in pickup crash on I-91
Published: Friday, July 20, 2007
A St. Johnsbury man suffered multiple injuries after a one-car accident Thursday on Interstate 91 in Newbury. Vermont State Police said Blake Jenkins, 22, and a passenger were driving northbound in a 2005 Dodge Pickup when Jenkins lost control of the truck and went into the median. The pickup struck several trees in the median. Police found Jenkins lying next to his truck. Woodsville, N.H., ambulance treated Jenkins at the scene and transported him to Cottage Hospital in Woodsville. It was later determined that Jenkins had suffered a fractured neck and a broken hip from the accident. The passenger was not injured

2) I think that the driver of this car was not only speeding but was not wearing his seatbelt. If he was wearing his seatbelt then the might not have fallen out of the truck and gotten hurt. I think that the passenger was wearing their seatbelt because they stayed in the truck and suffered no injuries.

3) 19-Year-Old Killed In Car Crash
July 14, 2007

NEW BRITAIN - -- A 19-year-old city man was killed Thursday night when his car crashed off McClintock Street.Gregory Jurczyk of 409 Francis St. was declared dead at the scene. Police gave the following account:
Jurczyk was driving a 2003 Subaru north on McClintock Street, approaching Magnolia Street, shortly after 11 p.m., when he lost control of the car. The car traveled through front yards on McClintock Street and went airborne, hitting two trees. It then ricocheted off a parked Ford Taurus, rolled through a yard and came to rest, upright, in the backyard of 416 Eddy Glover Blvd. New Britain police are investigating.

3) This man, I think, was obviously speeding, or not using the Basic Speed Law. It is unclear if he was wearing a seatbelt or not, but i think he wasn't because he was pronounced dead on the scene. and even thought he car went through a lot of trauma, if he was wearing a seat belt, i feel he would only have suffered injuries.