Still on the demon of ember (l)

Excessive speed, driving and phoning, non use of seat belt, overloading, lapped children, squeezed, some standing, dangerous overtaking, indulgence in nighttravels, use of worn out tyres, over/under inflated tyres,mechanical deficient vehicles, under aged driving,arrogance/impatience, fatigue, driving under the influence of alcohol and impaired driving. These habits are demonic and they have maimed and killed many. […]

Excessive speed, driving and phoning, non use of seat belt, overloading, lapped children, squeezed, some standing, dangerous overtaking, indulgence in night
travels, use of worn out tyres, over/under inflated tyres,mechanical deficient vehicles, under aged driving,arrogance/impatience, fatigue, driving under the influence of alcohol and impaired driving. These habits are demonic and they have maimed and killed many. You should reconsider how you drive as speed is at the core of the traffic injury problem.  It is the major determinant of the extent of injury .It influences both crash risk and crash consequences. The physical layout of the road and its surrounding can bothencourage and discourage speed. However, crash riskincreases as speed increases especially at junctionsand while overtaking. The effect of impact speed on therisk of death for pedestrians is colossal, but for vehicleoccupants also, injury severity increases with impact speed. The higher thespeed of a vehicle, the shorter time thedriver has to stop and avoid a crash. This is why the
possibility of fatal injury increases from close to zero to almost100 per cent as the change in impact speed increases from 20km/h to 100km/h. A car travelling at 50km/h will typicallyrequire 1.3metres to stop while a car travelling at 40km/hwill stop in less than 8.5metres.An average increase speed of
1km/h is associated with a three per cent higher risk of a crashinvolving an injury. Travelling at 5km/h above a roadspeed limit of 65km/h results in an increase in therelative risk of being involved in a casualty crash that iscomparable with having a blood alcohol concentrationof 0.05g/dl. For car occupants in a crash with an impactspeed of 80km/h, the likelihood of deaths is 20 times what
it would have been at an impact speed of 30km/h. It isbecause of the grave risk involved that a maximum speed limitof 100km/h for private cars and 90km/h for taxis andbuses is set on the expressway while at built up areas such as commercial and residential areas; 50km/h is the speedlimit.
However drivers are counseled to adhere to commonsense speed limit by adjusting speed to suit environment,his mental state and experience.Seat belt, one of the most effective means of reducing
deaths and injury for vehicle occupants is the use ofseat-belt by all occupants in the front and rear seats ascontained in section 58(3) and (4)of the National RoadTraffic Regulations,2004.Seat belt use saves. They don’tprevent crashes but play a crucial role in reducing theseverity of injury to vehicle occupants. Vehicle safety featuresare distinguished by “.primary safety and secondarysafety”.Primary safety features aim to prevent an accidenttaking place, e.g. good brakes and tyres. Secondary safety
features aim to prevent or minimize injury to a vehicleoccupant once the accident has occurred. Seat belts are a secondary safety device with a number of objectives which includes; preventing ejection from the vehicle in an impact,reducing the risk of contact with the interior of the vehicleor reducing the speed of such impacts, providing adistributed force to the wearer to give thenecessary support in an accident and restraining thevehicle occupant before guiding them back into theirseats.  
Child Restraint- Remember that the safest way to carry a child and to protect that child is to use a child seat that is suitable for the weight and size of that child. Do you now that even at a minor crash; an unrestrained child would be thrown about inside the vehicle, injuring themselves and others? They could also be thrown from the car through one of the windows. Do you also know that in a crash at just30km/h, an unrestrained child would be thrown forward with a force, 30 to 60 times their body weight? They would be thrown about inside the vehicle, injuring themselves and quite seriously injuring or even killing other people inside the vehicle. Do you know that it is not safe to hold a child on your laps? In a crash, the child could be crushedbetween our body and part of the car’s interior? That even if you were using a seat belt, the child would be torn from your arms and you would not be able to hold onto to them, no matter how hard you try. Do you also know that it is also dangerous to put a seat belt around yourself and a child or around two children; or to carry that child or children in the front passengers’ seat or on your tummy? That the safest way to travel with that child no matter the distance is a child seat or restraints. Drink driving/drugs-driving is a serious occupation which demands total concentration. It is said to be the most dangerous of all human activities…A recent WHO studies shows that 40 to 60 percent of all injury deaths are attributed to violence. This is particularly so for traffic accident involving alcohol. ALCOHOL misuse is usually on the high side this season. So too is drugs, whether legal or illegal. But do you know that an estimated 25 per cent of those who drive after drinking get involved in  accidents which are alcohol induced and that the chances of you being involved in an accident are multiplied 10times and that such Accident could be fatal depending on the level of alcohol.
To be continued.