| Even though the DOT reports less death | | | | automatically when an emergency vehicle was |
| accidents in personal vehicles we still have | | | | within one-eighth of a mile away. Clean |
| a long way to go. Over 40,000 people die on | | | | windows of course help for visibility. Five |
| our streets and highways every year. We all | | | | thousand deaths occur near, around or on the |
| know someone who has died in a traffic | | | | way to accidents, which have already |
| accident. In the United States we have the | | | | occurred. This includes crashes into |
| safest roads in the world and the safest cars | | | | emergency vehicles, police officers out of |
| too.What else can we do to bring down that | | | | their cars and rear end collisions due to |
| number of 40,000 deaths? That is twenty times | | | | rubber necking and lack of paying |
| higher than the casualties in Iraq and | | | | attention.Other ideas which are on their way |
| Afghanistan combined and we did not even have | | | | to a car near you include such things as |
| a war to kill all those friends and neighbors | | | | improved kids car seats: Also innovations in |
| on our highways. One idea which had been | | | | air bags, radars and simple things you can do |
| kicked around was to put a little light on | | | | to protect yourself; If you are involved in |
| the dash boards of cars so when an ambulance, | | | | an accident you need to be aware of what to |
| fire truck or police car with lights and | | | | do, chances are every driver will sometime be |
| sirens was on it would flash on the dash | | | | involved in an accident sometime in their |
| board to alert drivers to pull over. This | | | | lives. If you are wondering what safety |
| could very easily be done with a small | | | | features you next car might have check out |
| network sensor in every car and a small light | | | | this list and see if your choice for your |
| on the dash, which would activate | | | | next car is safe enough for your family. |