Facts+&+Statistics

=**__Facts & Statistics__**=

**__Did you know that?__**
1. About 40% of crashes that are fatal involve alcohol. If the accident takes place between midnight and 3a.m., the percentage increases to about 75%.

2. Survey's suggest that male drivers cause twice as many accidents as female drivers.

3. Different types of car accidents include head on collisions, rollovers, rear enders, suicides, side impacts and more. The most deadly of these accidents are the vehicle rollovers.

4. People between the ages of 16-20 face a higher chance of being injured or killed in a car crash over any other age group.

5. Most car accidents actually occur within 5 kilometres from home. There is a common misconception that car accidents occur while travelling to a vacation destination, but this is not the case.

6. Car accidents are the most common and most deadly source of personal injury in the world.

7. Cars that are more prone to accidents are sports cars and hatchbacks. Cars that have a bigger engine have the greatest chance in being involved in a car accident.

8. Your chances of getting into a car crash while talking on a cellphone increases by 400%.

__**Collisions:**__

-Are differentiate into elastic and inelastic collisions

-Elastic collision is defined as one in which both conservation of momentum and conservation of kinetic energy are observed. This implies that there is no dissipative force acting during the collision and that all of the kinetic energy of the objects before the collision is still in the form of kinetic energy afterward.

-In elastic collision is defined as a collision whereby the kinetic energy of both objects would be converted into other forms of energy, usually heat and sound. Despite this fact, inelastic collision still does obey the laws of momentum conservations.

-Thus, for car collisions, there would definitely be conversion of kinetic energy to other forms of energy such as heat and sound, so, in a real life situation, car collisions are basically inelastic collisions.


 * __Statistics:__**

(48.9%) || 91 (48.4%) || (10.4%) || 15 (8.0%) || (28.0%) || 46 (24.5%) || (10.0%) || 17 (9.0%) || Heavy/Light Goods Vehicle Drivers and Passengers || 6 (2.7%) || 19 (10.1%) || Note:(The figures as Percentage indicate the fatalities as a percentage of all fatalities of that year)
 * Road User groups || 2008 || 2009 ||
 * Motorcyclists and Pillion Riders || 108
 * Motorcar Drivers and Passengers || 23
 * Pedestrians || 62
 * Pedal Cylists And Pillion Riders || 22
 * Others(Bus Drivers and Passengers,
 * Total || 221 || 188 ||