Year 10 Health Assessment

1. What attitudes or behaviours lead to the most common and

harmful road accidents?
There are many attitudes and behaviours which have led to common and
harmful road accidents. These attitudes include tuning out or not putting
100% concentration into their surroundings. Another of these include
speeding, people are speeding on the roads to show themselves of
without thinking about the dangers of driving at a speed which exceeds
the speed limit for that specific road. Another one is distractions including
phone distractions like texting while driving. All these can cause harm to
both the driver himself and the people around him/her.
2. What preventative strategies can drivers and passengers
implement to maximise their safety?
To prevent tuning out when crossing the road they could work to the best
of their ability to avoid distractions such as phones and many other
distractions.
To prevent speeding you should think of the consequences of speeding
before you do it.
To control yourself from texting whilst driving you could put your phone
away from you and if someone does call you, you could turn Bluetooth on
to prevent contact with the phone.
3. Explain how motor vehicle accidents often have multiple
contributing factors.
It is not always just one factor that contributes to a motor vehicle
accident. In fact usually more motor vehicle accidents occur due to the
combined efect of many contributing factors. For example if someone had
a car accident during a storm near a pedestrian crossing many factors
could have led to this accident. The weather is one of these, the slippery
roads may have contributed to him losing control over where his car was
going, the people using the pedestrian road may have been tuned out
and the driver may have panicked. The combined efect of all these
factors would have led to the accident not just one of these.
4. Why is it important to foster a community attitude that reflects
safe driving behaviours?
It is crucial that a community attitude which reflects safe driving
behaviours is fostered. Because once a community attitude if fostered,
individuals who dont reflect safe driving behaviours will be pressured to
reflect road safety in their actions, such as not being distracted when
crossing the road and driving by unnecessary things such as mobile
phones and not speeding. It is said in the advertisement that people speed
to show that they are bigger than others. If they finally realise that
speeding doesnt increase their status they will eventually stop speeding
unnecessarily. However for this to happen the community need to stand
up together and try to inform them this maybe by just talking to them
about their unsafe road behaviour or by just ignoring them when they do it
and not talk about how cool someone is if they speed.

5. Critically analyse the Lambs to the Slaughter and No-one thinks

big of you advertisements and its effectiveness in promoting safe
health practices in young people.
The meaning of the slogan Lambs to the Slaughter is to mock how people
act like sheep on the road many of the pedestrians are listening to music
or texting, and once one of the pedestrians start walking the others just
follow that pedestrian. Saying that these lambs are to the slaughter
shows that once one lamb is in danger the rest would also be in danger.
Saying this helps promote safe health practices by mocking the way they
behave on the roads.
The meaning of the slogan no-one thinks big of you is mainly targeted at
those who speed because they think it makes them better than everyone
else. This ad promotes the idea to ignorant people who think the faster
they go the cooler they are or they think that everyone will be impressed
and their status will improve. The primary target audience of this is
people, especially men aged from 17-25 years of age, despite the fact that
this campaign also spread to a wider age range as surprisingly, older age
groups also involve in this type of activity.
6. The advertisement on texting whilst driving (Advertisement 3)
has not got a slogan. Propose a slogan for it and justify its
effectiveness in preventing risk behaviours on the road.
Dont text whilst driving.. udk wuts gonna happen next??Not only to
yourself but the ones around you
This slogan promotes efectiveness in preventing risk behaviours on the
road by making the slogan unclear in the area where it says you dont
know whats going to happen next so making that section of the slogan
unclear promotes the fact that you never know whats going to happen
next if you text while youre driving you could end up in a major accident
or the situation could be even worse. The use of ellipsis (.) shows that
it may not happen immediately but it could take a bit more time than you
think so if you think you did it once and nothing happened that doesnt
mean youre safe the next time. The purpose of the not only to yourself
but the ones around you will make the driver feel more guilty as he is also
afecting the others who are using the road and this indirectly promotes
the fact that everyone has the same rights to use the road safely and that
nobody who is using the road has the right to ruin this right for anyone.