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