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Highways
A highway is, in its most simple terms, any public road. Every country has its own national highway system.
906 Questions
Why does the US have such a high highway fatality rate?
The recent WHO study of accident fatality rates per vehicle shows that American cars are twice as dangerous as German cars, 9 times as dangerous as cars in San Marino, but 1/12th as dangerous as cars in Afghanistan, 1/22nd as dangerous as cars in Egypt, one forty-fourth as dangerous as cars in Niger, and one fifty-ninth as dangerous as cars in Ethiopia. The following table is from this study showing the ratio of cars to fatal accidents. iow, there was only 1 fatal accident amongst 51,590 cars in San Marino, compared to 1 per 100 cars in Ethiopia, a difference of 516 TIMES:
Deadliest
1 Eritrea 1/751
2 Cook Islands 1/1782
3 Eqypt 1/269
4 Jamahirya 1/854
5 Afghanistan 1/854
6 Iraq 1/1161
7 Niger 1/133
8 Angola 1/285
9 UAE 1/1661
10 Gambia 1/267
Safest
1 Marshall Isl 1/2487
2 San Marino 1/51590
3 Malta 1/25437
4 Uraguay 1/6566
5 Netherlands 1/11205
5 Singapore 1/3978
7 Switzerland 1/14476
7 West Bank 1/418
9 Norway 1/11158
9 Japan 1/13764
Misc
Ethiopia 1/100
Canada 1/6945
China 1/1503
Thailand 1/2051
South Africa 1/573
India 1/688
USA 1/5896
Germany 1/11217
The original study reported this as fatal accidents per 100,000 people rather than in accidents per vehicle, explaining why the West Bank was included in the safest category rather than the most dangerous category. This would suggest that drivers from Africa and the Middle East are what cause us to have an accident rate twice that of Germany and 2 1/2 times greater than that in Switzerland.
I think we would be driving on roads that looked like they were built in ancient Rome.
What are the 4 main highways in the US?
90 (Boston-Seattle) 95 (Miami-Portland) 10 (Jacksonville-Los Angelas) 5 (Los Angelas-Seattle)
Which highway takes you to sarnia ON from windsor ON?
There is no direct highway, but you take Kimball south from Sarnia, until you get to St. Clair Rd (40) that should take you to the 401 highway leads to Windsor.
Highway that vehicles can enter and exit only at interchanges?
They are controlled-access Highways. Interstate highways in the US are this type of highway.
Difference between intracoastal waterway and interstate highway?
A waterway is for ships, a highway is for cars.....That simple....
What is the highway man about?
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The Highway man is poem from Alfred Noyes
Its about Highway man of corse and a girl Bess
Its about The Highway Man Kissing Bess and Tim the Osarler is Jealous he tells King George and King Georges men wait at Besses Window they tie her up and 2 guns by her side She worns the Highwayman by shooting her self he realises it by Morning he comes to savee her but he gets killed to
What a sad story Right !!
Hopee It Hellps !
What is the name of the highway between Alice Springs and Darwin?
This is the Stuart Highway, named after explorer John MacDouall Stuart, who was the first to successfully travel from Adelaide to the north of Australia and back.
What does Tim the ostler have to do with the highway man?
It can be assumed that Tim the Ostler tipped off the Red Coats about the Highwayman's intention to return to the inn after he completed his robbery the night before. Tim did this in an attempt to remove his competition for Bess's affections.
Highway robbery means to rob someone on a main thoroughfare;
Highways were actually "invented" during the Roman Empire – as an efficient way for their troops and message bearers to move across occupied territory. Back then military transport was via horses and horse-drawn carriages carrying people &/or equipment, so the highways were appropriately sized for two-way horse-based traffic to pass smoothly.
Hitler merely brought the same concept into the 20th Century, when military vehicles had grown into trucks, tanks and armoured personnel carriers, as well as aircraft that needed emergency landing options, hence the autobahn, where heavy-duty military vehicles can travel smoothly in both directions.
Having experienced trench warfare during World War One, Hitler knew the value of wide all-weather roads to support the logistical needs of wheeled automobiles towards a war that he'd started planning since the early 1930's.
Since Roman times, civilian travel has always been greatly facilitated by the infrastructure designed principally for military purposes.
Yes, there were, but they were obviously far fewer in number than their male counterparts. In a lot of cases female highway robbers would work in partnership with their husband/as part of a larger gang, for example, Joan Bracey who worked with her husband. Bonnie Grizelda is an example of a Northumberland highwaywoman who, I think, worked alone- or so the story goes. Most female highwayrobbers dressed as men, presumably for their own safety.
A look at a British document called The complete Newgate Calendar would give you some examples of some female highway robbers who found themself in London's newgate prison in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is available at
http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.beal/comnwc0001&id=1&size=2&collection=beal&index=beal/comnwc
You might be particularly interested in Mary Frith (alias Moll Cutpurse) who is known as the grandmother of female highway robbers.
Also try searching the Old Bailey Online accounts. The search engine on that site is very good, and I think 'highwayrobbery' would be classed under 'violent theft'.
There are also a number of ballads describing female highwayrobbers who dressed as men, for example 'sovay' is a folk song of this kind which is still sung by folk singers today. How far these ballads corresponded to reality, I'm not sure; there is likely to have been a lot of artistic license but there can be no doubt that there were some highway women. In line with larger trends of female crime, though, the number of them seems to have decreased during the nineteenth century.
To reduce the force of impact on your vehicle by allowing your vehicle to travel farther than if it hit the abutment directly.
When passing on a 2 lane highway you need a minimum cushion of to seconds from oncoming traffic?
10 to 12 seconds
Do the US interstate highways that end in odd numbers carry travelers from north to south?
i have no idea yes no
How is a highway similar to transport systems of the body?
They are both the same because they both transport stuff;a highway is a transport system for cities. It's also because the cars represent the blood flow in the transport systems.
they robbed people and if they wanted your goods they would say stand and deliver and they would kill you after that maybe so they might rob kill or beat you up
