Intel Education: Seeing Reason Tool: Road Safety


	Seeing Reason Tool: Road Safety Resources for Research

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Online Information Resources
Have students use this set of resources to research traffic statistics and accident prevention. Listed here are both Israel sites and US sites with memorial stories, road accident statistics, and recommendations for prevention of traffic accidents.

Israel sites
: Anashim Be'adom for Safe Roads in Israel
www.anashimbeadom.org.il/aba/Section.aspx?Name=Personal+Stories*
First-hand accounts from the war on road crashes by a volunteer traffic policewoman; Betts Injury Prevention Project, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
www.md.huji.ac.il/depts/occenvmed/2000before.html*
A proposal that lists several methods for reducing accidents and predicts the lives that will be saved by their implementation; Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (search)
www.cbs.gov.il/lmsrce.cgi?p=!srch&r=0&f=3&o=0*
A searchable database of statistical information, including data related to traffic accidents; The National Road Safety Authority
http://pasimlev.mot.gov.il/RoadSafety/English/Welcome/*
Road accident statistics; Traffic Department, State of Israel: Accident Statistics
www.police.gov.il/english/AboutUs/Structure/04_en_traffic.asp*
www.police.gov.il/english/Traffic/Facts_Figures/01_en_tr_4_accidents.asp*
United States sites: Car- Accidents.com
www.car-accidents.com/pages/stats.html*
Statistics on accidents, injuries, restraint and airbag use; International Injury and Fatality Statistics
www.safecarguide.com/exp/statistics/statistics.htm*
Compare problems different countries have to put our own in perspective; National Highway Safety Administration's Safety City
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/*
Vince and Larry, NHTSA's crash test dummies, are tour guides for Safety City, Cyberstudio, a Challenge Quiz, and more; Traffic Calming for Communities: US Department of Transportation: Federal Highway Administration
www.ite.org/traffic/tcresources.htm*
Neighborhood traffic management programs around the U.S.; US Department of Transportation: Federal Highway Administration
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/*
Many national statistics about accidents, can search by locale; US Department of Transportation: Federal Highway Administration
www.fhwa.dot.gov/webstate.htm*
List of links to state departments of transportation

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