Editorial

I think reckless driving is a big factor in the United States. I think it is what it is because people have the power to operate a moving vehicle with or without consent or a driver license. Most people who choose to do that often have a tragic ending or end up in the hospital because they just crashed under the influence. People are just risking each other lives and the people that could be in the car. I think many people are having to easy access to cars mostly teenagers in the United States. There are about 3490 deaths per year do to reckless driving. Teens have the lowest rate in seat belt use. In 2005, 23% of drivers ages 15 to 20 who died in MVCs had a blood alcohol content of 0.08g/dl or higher. The first year of teens driving is the most dangerous. In 2001, 5,341 teens were killed in passenger vehicles involved in motor vehicle crashes. Two thirds of those killed were not buckled up. Two out of three teenagers killed in motor vehicle crashes are males Sixty-five percent of teen passenger deaths occur when another teenager is driving. In 2008, weekend drivers were twice as likely to be involved in drinking and driving car crashes than weekday drivers. In 2007, about 67% of alcohol-related driving fatalities were drivers with BACs of .08 or more. Approximately 17% were passengers riding with the drunk drivers. 68% of the drunken driving fatalities in 2007 involved single vehicle crashes 32% involved multi-vehicle crashes. Alcohol-related car crashes kill someone every 45 minutes and injure someone every two minutes. Drunken driving accidents cost the public around $114.3 billion a year. There are a lot of people with power that can control this but people need to start acting like they care about each other.

Feature story

I am interviewing Officer Beats who is involved in a reckless driving environment and I am going to be asking him many different types of questions about what they feel about reckless driving and what should be done to stop it.
I have experience a lot in my life but I think the most interesting part that brightened the world with fear when 5 cars plowed into each other and some flipping and crashing on the curbs of the freeway this was a disaster waiting to happen. People aren’t paying attention on the rode.
I think my favorite moment in my career where I looked up to someone with dignity and power but they do not know how to drive so I fear for they’re life when they on the road.
I am an adult now but when I was young I thought about driving and I never thought I would be in the position I am today. I have witnessed a lot of crashes in my time. I at least have seen 10 crashes per day, about 3600 crashes per year in my standards.

Brenden's Editorial

Reckless driving, I and my partner have been talking about reckless driving for a couple of weeks now and I believe that in order for things to change, we need to change and some of us are doing that. A new law has been passed by the house to keep teen drivers in check. Now any teen that is sixteen or seventeen can no longer use or operate there cell phone while driving (weather its hands on or hands free). I honestly believe this law is necessary even though I am sixteen because most of the car crashes/deaths are caused by teens, and now I believe that teens will now (hopefully) drive more carefully. The house rejected the senate’s effort on trying to change the sell phone law from a secondary offense to a first offense. A secondary offense is when some one gets pulled over for a primary offense for lets say, reckless driving, and your also on the phone, then they add on the charge of talking on the phone. This can lead into a big chunk of change you’ll have to pay.
Seattle times newspaper (from an article) - ’’ In 2009 the State Patrol caught 5,141 drivers using their handheld cell phone when they were stopped for other offenses. Of those drivers, 1,607 were given a ticket for the violation, and the rest received a warning in addition to a fine for their primary infraction.”
Another Quote- “Last year the National Safety Council called for lawmakers to ban the use of cell phones — including the hands-free kind — by drivers, citing the statistic that the risk of being in an auto accident grows fourfold when the driver is using a cell phone.” Well, it seems like to me that the state patrol needs to stop giving out warnings and hand out those tickets because people don’t seem to comprehend on what is happening on our roads. I am happy on the new state law but we as the people are still not safe on the road, every day I see people on the phone while driving and wonder if there the next one to die or the next one to kill some one, or even worse do both?!?! I know that the Senate, the House and the people will do what’s right some day, but until then you’re in danger, your kids are and your friends are in danger. If you are reading this and you drive while doing anything on your phone, the do the world a favor an turn it of or don’t touch it because you may be avoiding a deadly car crash that could have been prevented.
This will be my last post; hopefully you all have learned something because I know I have.

Brenden Simmons Feature Story

Feature story:


Besim R. age 17 ½ goes to Evergreen Tec school in White Center, He's been driving since he was a freashmen and not legal as he says. He loves to drives to school every day and when he got his car from his dad he was excited like a little kid at christmas time, and I had the chance to interview this young man on his experiences and thoughts of Reckless driving. The first thing I asked Besim was if you ever been the cause of reckless driving? And he told me that yes he has, it was raining and was night time. A man cut him off, and Besim was texting. The man stopped and Besim slid into him even though he hit the brakes. He was lucky enough and only had minor injuries. I also asked him if he’s been a victim and he also said yes to that. Once he was in the car with friends and the driver decides to go to an illegal street race and participate with every one still in the car, they were going really fast and started to swerve around, and there were pedestrians and other vehicles around. Barley missed another vehicle and then the driver decides to go the races and once they arrived people already wanted to race so they went on. After that they were racing for a while, and they were lucky that no one was hurt. But after that they raced again and they crashed into a telephone pole, still lucky that they weren’t killed or hurt that bad. I asked him when it should be appropriate for a teen to be able to get his or her license and he said “I think they should get it as soon as they hit 16 because even though teen are known for un experienced driving, it give to go through drivers ed and give them the concepts on how to drive, and also the rules of the road.” He tells me that he see’s reckless drivers usually around midnight to one in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays because that’s when people go out and drink or party. As we come to the end of our interview I asked Besim if he knew what kills the most teens each year, he said drugs. Drugs are also bad but don’t kill nearly as much teens as reckless driving. I asked him how many teens do you think die each year because of reckless driving he said 1,000 and actually 4,000 teens die each year (in America) from car crashes. I also asked him how many are injured, he said 5,000-10,000 but it’s actually far worse. 300,000 teens are injured in car crash’s each year, that’s 821 teens a day.

Car Crashes Into South Seattle Home [Besim]

April 27Th, 2009 3:35pm
The driver of a stolen car crashed it into a house in South Seattle shortly about 10 a.m. but by the time the police arrived, the driver was long gone, according to Seattle Police.
Officers spotted a suspicious car in the 2900 block of South Holly Street and when they went up to it, the driver sped away. The officers ran back to their patrol car and began searching for the car and its driver.
The drivers car was found just a couple blocks later with the suspect gone. Officers searched the area but the suspect fled and got away.
"Suspect is armed and very dangerous".
Police said that the man was wanted for outstanding warrants and was not from around this area.

one fatal death, and two injured (Brenden)

a car accident involving two trucks on Monday February 1, 2010 around 6:30pm on Redwood Road in Taylorsville, Utah. in this accident a woman named Charlotte Kirk, a 55 year-old Salt Lake City woman was killed when turning left agianst on comming traffic, her passanger was injured and sent to the hospital, and the other driver as well. Even though this is sad to say, its her fault for not paying attention to what she was doing. unfortunately i dont know how she was not paying atention but if she was she could have saved her lif. Let this be one of the many lessons you will hear and be responsible. I asked some kid on what he thought.

N/A- "thats sucks, people need to pay more attention to what they are doing, cause it could prevent somthing bad from happining"

Brenden's Hard Lede

January 18, 2010. two boy of the ages 8 & 11 were killed in a car crash when leaving a monster truck show at the tacoma dome. traffic officers suspect speed and alcohol may have contributed to the deadly crash.