Monday, October 10, 2011

A Road Accident essay for F.A+Fsc+Metric Students

A Road Accident
Mostly accidents occur due to negligence or unawareness of traffic rules and signs on the roads. The drivers especially in our country don’t have typical special training mostly they are illiterate and cant understand and follow the signs of the road. The other thing is that most of the driver are addicts of drugs and they use it during there drive and causes serious kind of accidents on roads. 
The road in front of my school is a narrow one. It is also very busy. Every afternoon when school is dismissed the road becomes almost impassable due to children, bicycles, cars and buses. Sometimes a policeman is there to help things out, but generally we have to depend on ourselves to avoid accidents. A few accidents had already occurred. I was a witness to one. If happened just after school. As usual the road was over crowded. Children were running across the road to get to their cars and buses. Just then I saw a young boy make a dash across the road. There was a loud sound of horn, a sound of brakes and I saw a car knock into the boy. He fell as though his feet were swept from under him. Fortunately the car was not moving very fast and the driver managed to stop the car before a wheel could run over the fallen boy. All traffic stopped. I ran over to the boy and saw blood on the road. He was bleeding from a cut on his head. A man came and examined the boy. Then he lifted the boy and carried him to a car. They took him to hospital. Many people surrounded the driver who looked worried. A policeman came to calm things down. As there was nothing I could do, I turned and walked down the road carefully. It was terrible to witness an accident. I certainly would not like to be involved in one.




Major Causes Of Fatal Road Accidents

Major Causes of Fatal Road Accidents.
          Road accidents have become a natural occurrence on the streets, byways and highways not only in Lagos but in various parts of the country. Just yesterday, as I was coming back from a stroll, a Van recklessly sped past without concern for other road users thereby causing a collision between two commercial motor – cyclists.
            There are various causes of these accidents, some of which include carelessness, drunkenness, untrained drivers (i.e. those without knowledge of road signs), mal -functioning traffic lights and impatient drivers. We also have bad roads, spoilt street lights and vehicles that are not road – worthy. 
 Another factor is the remarkable absence of road signage on most of Nigeria's Highways. These make it difficult for non-locals to use any stretch of roads without prior tutoring regarding the 'dos' and 'don’ts' of each stretch.   

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