Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you tonight about
crashes. This is the PowerPoint presentation that was supposed to go
with Sunday's live feed - smart Sunday number 28. so we're gonna do the
PowerPoint presentation.
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Hi there smart drivers. Welcome back. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to
you today about crashes, the reasons for crashes, the historical evolution of car
crashes over the 20th century and into the 21st century. I'll be talking about that and
giving you the top reasons why we have traffic crashes. How they have
moved into the second spot of reasons why people die... in our sort of first
world countries, and I use that term loosely. And then some of the advances in the
technological and medical science advancements that have been made that
have reduced the number of traffic fatalities and we'll talk about why
maybe that isn't such a good thing now just before we get started here if
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the PowerPoint presentation car crashes so one of the things that
we're all familiar with is crash test dummies there's even a band name - crash
test dummies and they have given safety ratings to new vehicles and tell
consumers which vehicles are safer than other vehicles and this was really
driven the sale of vehicles because it's at the foremost of consumers minds in
terms of what vehicles they buy whether they're safe or not especially for those
that have families they're looking for vehicles that are safe and get high
crash ratings one of the other things as driven sales of SUVs particularly kind
of a historical overview of cars and in the OPEC oil crisis in early 1970s for a
decade and a half that changed the how big cars were they became much
smaller and then into the 1990s when all of that began to recover and fuel wasn't
a concern anymore the SUV's became a big sale in terms of the types of vehicles
that we purchased because they were bigger vehicles and the auto
manufacturers marketed them as a way that you were going to survive a traffic
crash so this is why we have a lot of SUVs in those types of things and
interesting enough in the 1960s safety ratings were not something that auto
manufacturers thought they could sell and now we look 50 60 years later down
the road and safety features are very much at the forefront of what drives
consumers to purchase vehicles is that they have to be safe so for those of you
who are new to smart drive test and don't know me my name is Rick August I
was a truck driver through most of the 1990s that became a driving instructor a
commercial driving instructor in 1997 my expertise as air brakes and truck
driving mostly I did Drive bus in Australia when I was there for a year
for Greyhound and as well I drove for the regional v-line bus company as well
which has just hooks up the local train where it has gaps and they transport
passengers obviously between the different train stations I did earn a
doctorate from the University of Melbourne in legal history legal history
for those of you don't know is the study of policing courts and prisons and my
expertise is in policing specifically as it relates to traffic so that's my
background and I've been a licensed driving instructor here in British
Columbia since 2008 and I still AM and I do have a driving school here in the
province as well but I don't really teach people in vehicle most of my stuff
is all done online this week's vehicle was how to do a
u-turn I got that video up and four licensed drivers passenger vehicle
drivers who were going for a road test how to do a u-turn is step-by-step
instructions about how to do a u-turn at conventional intersections
t-intersections on busy roadways and on highways that shows you how to do all of
that and gives you reasons why you turns are not part of the driving call
here in British Columbia because there are a lot of prohibitions against
u-turns so just leaving a comment down in the comment section there for those
of you and tell me whether you turns a part of your driving culture so traffic
crash deaths interesting enough from the twentieth century at the beginning of
the 20th century at the end of the 1900s war famine and disease were the number
one killers of people in the world by the beginning in a hundred years later
at the beginning of the 2000s suicide traffic crashes and terminal illness are
now the number one killers of people in as I said first world countries and I
use that term loosely and in most countries in the world the United States
and Canada Australia and Britain Europe other places in the world if you took
all of the traffic crashes and put all of the traffic crashes in one place at
one time it would be declared a national emergency that's how many people are
killed injured and maimed in traffic crashes every year and you can see that
it came to public attention as early as 1924 I found this drawing in the London
Free Press when I was doing work on history there in the early 2000s at the
University of Western Ontario and you can see the figure of war handing the
troffer trophy to the automobile driver who's characterized as Japanese oddly
enough with it which is even funnier by the fact that in the 1980s and 1990s
Japan went on to become very much the auto manufacturers to beat and still are
in this day and age producing quality vehicles but the other thing that this
epitomizes is just a quick history lesson here was the fear that white
people had of the Japanese because the Japanese had defeated the Russians in
the 1904 Japanese rusa war which is the first war that Asians defeated a white
nation which really sort of you know spurred xenophobia in the world and then
of course this would go on and we'd have the awful event of the Holocaust in
during the Second World War so there's a lot going on in this image here but
essentially what it needs to show is is that the automobile killed injured and
me more people than soldiers sent to war we're talking about world war one world
war two Korean the Vietnam War and all the other wars in the world so the
number of deaths attributed to traffic crashes are a lot all of us know
somebody unfortunately who has been involved or killed in a car crash my
niece and 20 in 2006 was killed in a car crash and it was very devastating to the
whole family Princess Diana is probably one of the most famous deaths of
somebody killed in a car crash James Dean was killed in a car crash and this
is a picture of his speeding ticket that he received only hours before he was
killed in a in a traffic crash for those of us here in Canada that know about Tim
Hortons the doughnut shop the very famous doughnut shop some of us jokingly
say that Tim Hortons is next to patriotism here in Canada and then of
course in a very ironic traffic crash death Paul Walker the one of the stars
of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise which was all about cars fast
cars and souped-up cars racing in the quarter-mile and street racing he was
riding in a car as a passenger with his financial advisor and was killed and
killed in a car crash no one is immune to traffic crashes and this is the point
that I want to make is is that we all ride in cars and we're all susceptible
to being injured maimed or killed in a car crash and interesting enough if we
were hurt or injured on a horse or we were injured on a bicycle or we were
injured or killed on are not killed obviously but injured on a motorcycle
none of us would get back on one of those things how we're we're injured in
a car crash when we go to the hospital and we have some time to comp less and
then we get out of the hospital first thing we do is we get back in a car it's
it's very strange and the way that that happens in our world you know
interesting enough different studies around the world in terms of car crashes
have determined that most car crashes the highest number of car crashes do not
happen in the winter time they do not happen in bad
driving conditions most of them happen in clear weather on drive roads and the
driver is sober and the vehicle is mechanically fit and most of the car
crashes believe it or not happen in the summertime most of us in the northern
hemisphere they happen in July June July and August and those of you in the
southern hemisphere they happen in late December January February and early
March is when the most number of car crashes are which is counterintuitive to
what most people think and the first time I was asked that question I went
well it's got to be in the winter in everything but it's not true it's it's
in the summer so that's when most crashes happen there are twice the
number of traffic crashes in city areas in in urban areas but there are twice
the number of fatalities in rural areas even though there are less crashes and
there's a number of reasons attributed to the fact that there are more
fatalities in rural areas than there are in urban areas first of all somebody has
to find you if one of you isn't conscious in the vehicle if one of the
occupants isn't conscious in the vehicle you have to be awake to be able to call
emergency services second of all emergency services have to respond to
you and you're often a long way from emergency services and up until the
advent of GPS and and tracking devices and whatnot it was difficult to find the
specific location of car crashes I mean that's getting a little better with GPS
and other technology and those types of things and it is easier to transport you
to hospitals and whatnot in terms of Hall helicopters and whatnot the other
interesting thing about most crashes that occur in rural areas is that these
are single vehicle crashes and there are a number of reasons why we have single
vehicle crashes and I'll talk a little further about that a little more about
that in another slide here actually no that was right on single vehicle crashes
the number one reason for a lot of the single vehicle crashes people are
intoxicated they are either drunk or they've been taking illegal substances
or drugs or prescription medication and those types of things and again I come
back to that point of intoxication most intoxication happens because of
prescribed medication and over-the-counter medication not because
of illegal illegal drugs other people single vehicle crash that people fall
asleep they're driving too on country roads and those types of
things and they strike a fixed object or go into the ditch or hit a tree or those
types of things so they're most of the reasons cannot be figured out why the
crash happened we have a general overview of why these crashes happen but
most of these single vehicle crashes the reasons are not attributable to why the
it happened but most of the time it's intoxication or fatigue or the person
fell asleep at the wheel which is obviously fatigue and or the person was
speeding so those are the top reasons for crashes and single vehicle crashes
and crashes in the country and what not top three reasons for crash is speeding
failing to yield and following too close these are the three reasons people are
going too fast they're failing to give the right-of-way to other road users or
they're following too close as you can see these two cars in the center lane
here they're simply following too close there's no reason for that black card to
be that close to those other two vehicles so if you manage the space
around your vehicle and you drive in the spaces between the vehicles you're going
to reduce the chances of you being involved in a traffic crash so that's
one of the things you can do is manage the space around your vehicle now I did
touch a little bit on intoxication when single vehicle crashes in the late
1960s drinking and driving I mean those were very much part and parcel of our
culture the police implemented anti drink driving laws and the late in the
early 1970s implemented that we had to wear seatbelts and a generation later
most of us are wearing seatbelts seat belt use is about 96 percent now and you
know but we're leading up to 2020 here young people drinking driving dating and
distracted driving and I mean distracted driving is huge now with cellphones and
those types of things and I'm certainly see that it wasn't something that came
down the pike drink driving laws are changing as well to try and combat that
problem but I don't think that we're combating that problem I mean here in
British Columbia the snow is beginning to melt if you go down and drive along
the highways when the snow snow melts here in another week or two out of the
ditches you'll see the number of beer cans and liquor bottles and those types
of things in so I don't think that the campaign against drink driving is
winning in any sense imagination now one of the things that
Australia does well that we in North America do not do well is their
campaigns against fatigue and driving tired and they have huge campaigns
against driving tired and there are a lot more rest areas in Australia on
roads and those types of things and I mean maybe in the country where you live
because obviously some of the countries I haven't been to but do they have an
awareness about driving tired leave a comment down in the comment section
there and just let me know if there's an awareness about driving tired because
there have been studies done about that there you know the the research that's
beginning to come out about how dangerous is to drive tired is beginning
to give us some idea of that but you need to be aware in terms of driving
tired that there's two times of the day that you're going to be tired sort of 1
to 5 in the afternoon and 1 to 5 in the early morning those are the two sort of
dangerous times because we all have a biologic clock a biological clock we all
have circadian rhythms and those are the times that we get tired and if you're
driving during those times of the day try not to eat a big meal because
that'll again make you more tired and some of the ways that you can combat
fatigue if you do absolutely have to of course the number one reason is to pull
over and get a bit of sleep but if you're eating or talking to somebody
else that'll help to combat some of the fatigue vehicle safety features this is
one of the other thing that has reduced the number of fatalities in terms of car
crashes crumple zones most of the cars now when when they've been in a crash
they look like they're completely destroyed they're designed to do that
and it absorbs the energy of the crash to protect the occupants in the vehicle
safety glass and the windshield breakaway steering columns breakaway
steering columns came from the study by Ralph Nader who is a former US
presidential candidate he also wrote a book called unsafe at any speed which is
in the early 1960s and he specifically took aim at the Chevrolet Corvair and
one of the problems with the Chevrolet Corvair was it did not have a breakaway
steering column and even in minor crashes on a front impact the steering
column would come into the occupant of the passenger compartment push up
underneath the driver's neck and snap their neck and kill them in a minor car
crash so that was one of the takeaways of that study was that we had
breakaway steering columns in vehicles we also implemented mandatory seat belt
use and airbags and one of the other things in this picture is saitm impact
bars but I can tell you that side impact bars do not work there's just not enough
strength in those bars to be able to cope with the shear forces in a t-bone
crash and again I'll put a card up in the corner for you here on the video on
t-bone crashes and why t-bone crashes are so dangerous so I have a look at
that as well finally the last thing that has reduced the number of traffic
fatalities is advances in medical science and most of these advances in
medical science came out of the Vietnam War especially as it relates to trauma
and emergency crews know that if they have a serious injury of a person in a
car crash or some other accident that the first hour is absolutely crucial to
getting that person to medical services and getting them into surgery if they
can get that person to a hospital and into emergency services within the first
hour there is a high chance of that person being able to recover from that
kind of accident and it's called the golden hour and the 60 minutes that they
have to get the person into surgery and have to get that person surgery and that
way that person will survive now one of the other things is that came out of
this and I wrote an article about this and said that yes there are less traffic
deaths and more people are surviving traffic crashes but the problem is this
is the quality of life what is the quality of life these people have after
the traffic crash are they injured do they have some sort of debilitating
injury that's going to cause them to have a reduced quality of life for the
rest of for the remainder of their natural life so maybe this is a good
thing maybe it's not a good thing because some people are you know living
with injuries from a car crash for the rest of their life whereas prior they
would have just died and I know that's a pretty callous thing to say
but I mean leave your thoughts down in the comment section there we can have a
discussion about it to know whether you know
you know is it better it is definitely better because we are definitely a lot
of people are surviving correct with car crashes that at one time they wouldn't
have survived so those are some of the reasons for car crashes and some of the
awareness around car crashes and sort of a historical overview of car crashes so
a quick review of car crashes over the 20th century car crashes killed injured
and made more people than soldiers sent to war so they have been devastating
they still are devastating we're still having the same number of crashes today
and same number of injuries resulting from car crashes as we did 50 or 60
years ago unfortunately people are still driving intoxicated they're driving
drunk and now we have distracted driving which is adding to the complexity of
driving yes we have more safety features and Road engineering features that are
actually saving people in advances in medical science and all those types of
things are reducing the number of fatalities but we're still having the
same number of injuries unfortunately we all know somebody who's been involved in
a car crash is living with injury due to a car crash so know that car crashes are
dangerous unfortunately we get lulled into a false sense of safety in our
vehicles because our vehicles are a very personal space and they have lots of
safety features on them that do protect us but we're still susceptible to car
crashes and know that most car crashes are not going to happen in climate
weather most car crashes are going to happen on dry roads on clear days and
most often very close to home so know that as well know the fact that although
there are twice the number of car crashes in urban areas there are twice
the number of fatal car crashes in rural areas and most of the reasons for these
car crashes being fatal in rural areas is because your distance to emergency
services getting to hospitals the emergency crews finding you yes we have
GPS and those types of things that help out and whatnot and I mean if you have a
single vehicle crash in a rural area you may be unconscious and not be able to
contact emergency services and whatnot so that's the other issue is somebody
getting in contact or somebody actually finding you and whatnot so that's kind
of an overview of traffic crashes and some of the things you could keep in
mind when you're driving that might help you to reduce the risk of being involved
in a traffic crash question for my smart drivers
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smart drive test website I'm Rick with smart drive test thanks very much for
watching good luck on your road test and remember pick the best answer not
necessarily the right have a great day man I'm going home from work learned
from the radio that most traffic crashes occur within 20 minutes of home
went straight home and told his wife that they were moving cuz they were at
risk of being involved in a crash
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