• The brake light in the rear window was put there after a suggestion by Elizabeth Dole
• Car airbags explode at 200 miles per hour
• In 2003, 17,013 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in the United States. This amounts to one death almost every half hour.
• Interstate east-west routes are assigned even numbers and Interstates north – south routes are assigned odd numbers
• The first jurisdiction in the United States to adopt laws against drunk driving was New York in 1910, with California and others following. The first generally accepted legal limit for blood alcohol concentration was 0.15.
• The first person to be killed in an auto accident in the United States was Henry H. Bliss, a 68 year old real estate broker. On September 4, 1899, in New York City, Mr. Bliss stepped from a streetcar, turned to assist a woman passenger, and was hit by a cab.
• Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903.
• Driver and traffic safety education began as a concept in 1928 as part of a doctoral thesis by Albert W. Whitney. Whitney argued the idea that since so many teenagers where learning to drive, the schools had a responsibility to include driver education and safety instruction in the curriculum. Amos Neyhart, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, established the first recognized driver education curriculum program in 1934.
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Here are some fun facts about Thanksgiving that you may not have heard before:
• It was not until 1941, that congress declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday. It was declared to be the fourth Thursday in November.
• Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey
• There are three places nationwide named after the turkey; Turkey, Texas, Turkey Creek, La and Turkey N.C. There are also 16 townships around the country named “Turkey,” three of them in Kansas.
• Sarah Josepha Hale, an influential magazine editor and author created the campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. Due to her efforts, in 1863 Thanksgiving was observed as a day for national thanksgiving and prayer. She was also the author of the classic nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
• Californians are the largest consumers of turkey in the United States.
Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!
Please refer to these sites for more fun and interesting facts:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blanderson.htm
http://www.thanksgivingnovember.com/thanksgiving-facts.html
http://www.comedy-zone.net/triviazone/history/cars-and-driving.htm
http://funeasyenglish.com/driving-united-states-america-street-road-freeway-highway-thruway-expressway-traffic-rules-regulations-fun-facts.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/driver-education
Please refer to these sites for more fun and interesting facts:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blanderson.htm
http://www.thanksgivingnovember.com/thanksgiving-facts.html
http://www.comedy-zone.net/triviazone/history/cars-and-driving.htm
