Traffic Safety
- Do the following:
- Explain and answer questions about the seriousness
and the size of the street and highway traffic
safety problem in the United States, your state,
and your community.
- Make a scrapbook containing 10 newspaper
articles about serious traffic crashes.
- List what driving and/or safety rules were
violated. Tell how these crashes might have
been prevented.
- Give one other cause which might have
contributed to each crash.
- Tell why driving while impaired by alcohol or other
drugs is such an important problem.
- Explain how highway design, road conditions, and
roadside hazards relate to the occurrence and
seriousness of traffic crashes.
- Check tires for wear and proper inflation.
- Describe two safety programs designed to control and
reduce the serious effects of the highway traffic
safety problem.
- Do the following:
- List 10 automotive features that reduce the
seriousness of injuries when crashes occur.
- Tell why safety features are important when buying
a car.
- Demonstrate how to adjust lap and shoulder belts.
Explain why it is important to wear them at all
times.
- Do the following to show your knowledge of car care for
safety maintenance:
- Check operation of all exterior lights.
- Check operation of all interior lights.
- Locate a fuse or circuit breaker on the light or
horn circuit.
- Check windshield wiper blade and smear-and-clear
test. Replace the blade, if needed, and tests.
- Do the following:
- In a location away from traffic hazards, measure
with a tape measure -- not in a car -- and mark off
with stakes the distance that a car may travel
during the time needed for decision and reaction,
and the braking distance necessary to stop a car
traveling 30, 45, and 70 miles an hour on dry
pavement. Discuss additional allowance that bad
weather and road conditions would require.
- Using a bicycle, demonstrate four safe practices
common to bicycle and automobile driving.
- Using the chart of international traffic signs and
control devices, explain the meaning of each.
- Demonstrate the difference in visibility at night
between bicycle and rider properly lighted and
marked with a reflectorized material and a bicycle
and rider at night with dark clothing and an
unlighted bicycle.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Observe, study, and prepare a report on one
important community activity for traffic safety.
- Report on a traffic safety project in which you
participated with your troop, post, or school.
- Report on an individual project that you carried
out in promoting traffic safety.