Changing a tire due 7/30

Chelsey Gould
Type 3
Changing a tire

1. Change a tire on your family car under the supervision of one of your parents. If your not sure how to do it read your vehicles owners manual.Write a type 3 writeup. FCA's: 1.Describe the steps you used in changing your tire. 2.Describe the safety components involved in changing a tire.3. Correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Post by Monday 7/30

If you get a flat tire then these are the steps that you use:

1. Find a safe place to pull over
2. put your hazard lights on
3. Put your car in park
4. Put the emergency brake on
5. Place the jack (where your owners manual tells you)
6. Lift the jack high enough so that the bottom of the tire is just off the ground
7. loosen lugnuts
8. Then take them off
9. Pull the tire off (put where spair tire was)
10. Take your spair tire out
11. Set the spair tire on
12. Set lugnuts and tighten but not really hard
13. Let the jack down
14. Tighten the lugnuts all the way
15. Put materials back in trunk
16. Then your ready to go
17. Signal and pull out

You should have a little car jack in your trunk if you get a spair so you can just get out and use those steps so you dont have to call someone or a service place and wait for them to get there. Its a lot faster.

asssignment due 7/30

Chelsey Gould
type 3


2.Type 3 write up on insurance.FAC's: 1 Describe the following types of coverages: bodily injury liability, property damage liability, collision, comprehensive, uninsured and under insured bodily and property damage liability, and the term deductible and how it relates to collision and comprehensive coverages. 2.Describe what the state of Vermont requires for automobile insurance. 3Correct spelling, grammar and punctuation, Post by Monday, 7/30.

Bodily injury liability-
Liability for physical harm or death of a person that ment or didn't mean to do it. it has it for if your sick or have a disease contracted by the injured person as a result of an injury.

Property damage liability- It pays for the car to get fixed, everything put back in that got totaled, and the repairs of the other car if it was your fault.

Collision- Insurance that pays for the repair or replacement of the policy owners car in the place of a crash.

Comprehensive- Like the same thing above but you have to pay a deductible, to get your car fixed.

Uninsured- Covers when property damage is sustained by a insured and the driver does not have insurance, but the limits of liability carried by the bad driver are not going to cover the damages.

under insured- Covers your car when property damage is sustained by a insured and the bad driver does not have insurance.


Vermonters on average paid about $786 in insurance in 2003, compared to the national average is about $914. A lot of people believe all these rates are fixed by insurance companies. State regulatory agencies, but they really discounted and competitive rates are available in Vermont, and Car Insurance.com is the best place to find them.

This is all I could find if you want me to add more I can just write a comment. I tried my best.

Crash cd

1. Watch the " Crash Cd ". Type 3 writing. FCA's: 1. give a complete summary of the four sites you visit in the cd( lawyer, police, doctor, school), 2.Tell who you turned out to be in the cd, 3.Give your view on the problems related to drinking/drugs and driving. Please post this by Sunday 7/29, 3:00 pm. If completed correctly this paper will take the place of your final exam.

Chelsey Gould
type 3

Lawyer- What I got from the lawyer was, there was 5 teenagers involved in the crash, The woman that hit the teenagers (Melissa) ran a red light, 4 teen girls died in the crash. The woman that hit them has had two previous DUI charges, and she is going to jail for a minimum of 60 if she gets charged for everything. The defense for Melissa said that they didn't see signs of her being drunk, and blood tests couldn't show anything because they didn't refrigerate them so they couldn't tell anything. The prosecution said she was drunk, and from the time of 12:00 pm and 2:50pm she already had 5 drinks. She was going 60mph when she hit the teens. Melissa also lied to police and tried to tell them that she wasn't drunk but her blood alchol level was .21 to .28, she got charged with 2nd degree murder.

School- There was a girl on a bike that got hit, she wasn't even in the car and now shes in the hospital, she had brain damage but she is getting released from the hospital soon. I just dont get how there was a biker that got hit because there was a drunk driver that hit a bunch of teens when they were leaving the beach and then they talked about a biker. So someone wasn't really in the case i think, that there was a few different stories.

Police- officer Hernandez, he was the first officer on the site. He said that there were two people that were laying on the ground and so wasn't the biker. He was 3 cars back and watched the whole thing happen and called in to have more officers come adn help him. They said that they didn't even know about one girl that they found when they got 2 of the 3 that were left in the car out. She was all tangled in the parts of the car, and she died on impact.

Doctor- The doctor said that they were not wearing seatbelts and if you wear a seatbelt its a higher chance you wont get hurt by 60%. They might have been smoking marijuana. The biker had a little memorie loss, the doctor said that she had to of hit her head off of something to cause the memorie loss. He also said that the driver was driving over the legal limit and she shouldn't have been driving. They all would of had a better chance of surviving if they had there seatbelts on, and were not driving while drinking and smoking.

I think that someone didn't hit the teens I think that there were 5 teens in a car that were drinking and smoking and they were going or soming from a party and when they ran the red light and turned that corner really fast the girl on the bike was there and ended up getting hit by the drunk driver. I was the biker in the cd. I think that people should not drink and drive at all I think that it is the worst thing that people can do and a lot of people think that there good drivers, and they maybe but you could be doing everything right and then from the middle of no where a person that is drinking and smoking while driving could hit you and maybe even kill you. It wouldn't be your fault and you didn't do anything wrong but its the other people that decite to be stupid and not think or let other people that are not drinking drive them home.

Assingment 7/26

Chelsey Gould
Type 2
due 7/26
1. List 8 areas where it is illegal to pass another vehicle and give a reason why you think it is unsafe to pass in these areas. This is a type 2 writing.

1. On a hill- It is not safe to pass on a hill because you cant see what is on the other side and that could cause a accident.
2. On a curve- It's like a hill because you cant see what is around the corner, and if theres a car coming then you caould hit them head on.
3. At in intersection- It's not safe to pass at in intersection because you see a lot of police shows and things of people passing at in intersection and if theres a car or a truck or anything then there could come from the middle of no where and hit you on the side.
4. At a rail road crossing- I think that this is the worsed place anyone could pass because if you go to pass someone and a train is coming but you think you have enough time, well you really dont trains are going faster then you think, and you could get hit by a train, and theres not really anyway that you could live through that.
5. Tunnels- because something could be coming, and you dont have enough time to pass the right way.
6. Bridges- Because if your going to pass and then you see another car coming you would have to swerve and you would go off the bridge, or hit the other car.
7. No passing zones- Because if its a no passing zone then there telling you that it is really unsafe to pass so if you do pass on a no passsing zone and a cop sees you then you will get a ticket.
8. On coming traffic is present- Thats kind of commen sence but if theres a car that you think is really far ahead and you think that you have time to pass you dont, well maybe you do but you wont be able to pass safely and you have a good chance of getting hit head on by the other car.

2. Using the power point 9.02 I would like you to explain the time and space needs for passing another vehicle. You are traveling at 60 mph and the car you are about to pass is going 40 mph. you will need to multiply each speed by 1.5 in order to find the feet per second that each car is traveling. Please explain how long it will take you to pass the vehicle, the number of feet that you will travel in each of the three parts of the passing maneuver. the total feet and time it will take, and compare that to the length of a football field which is 300 feet long. This is a type 2 writing. Remember to use the 9.02 power point to find the information you will need to solve the question.

If your going 60mph then that means your traveling 90 feet per second, If the car your passing is going 40mph then there traveling at 60 feet per second. It will take 10 seconds to pass the other car. I will be traveling 90 feet per second, it will take 15 seconds to pass the car, and it will be the lengh of 3 football fields.

3. Find three news articles. Post the information along with your opinion of the situation. This is a type 1 writing.

Traffic flagger lodged for alcohol detoxPublished: Wednesday, July 25, 2007Free Press Staff ReportWARREN -- A traffic flagger working at a bridge construction project in Warren was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with reckless endangerment after Vermont State Police said they found him "extremely intoxicated" and asleep in a vehicle near the work site. John Patrick Green, 42, of Waterbury was taken into custody and lodged at an alcohol detoxification unit at the Dale Correctional Facility following the incident, according to police. The police found Green in his car while responding to a report that a "suspicious man" had been seen wandering near residences in Warren village.Witnesses claimed Green had been directing vehicles over a one-lane bridge on Brook Road and around construction equipment at the work site before the arrival of the police, a Vermont State Police news release said.

I think this is totally not right at all. If you have a good job like that then you dont need to drink nad if your going to drink then they can do it when they get out of work. There is no reason to drink before or during your job. There just a flagger you just have to stand there and flip a sign over and it doesn't seem like a big deal but it really is what if this guy that was drunk at work had the sign the wrong way and it said slow, there could be a family that went and hit someone head on becasue this guy wasn't paying attention and he was drunk.

2)Bus Passengers May Have Been Exposed To TB
Passenger Of May 5 Vermont Transit Co. Bus May Have Tuberculosis
POSTED: 3:53 pm EDT July 24, 2007
UPDATED: 5:27 pm EDT July 24, 2007

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Passengers on a May 5 bus from Boston to Montreal may have been exposed to tuberculosis, health officials in Vermont and Massachusetts said Tuesday.
At least some people on the Vermont Transit Co. trip were being notified that another passenger on the bus may have had the disease.
"We had an alert from the Boston, Massachusetts, Department of Health," said Chris Andreasson, general manager of Vermont Transit Co. Inc. "The only concern they had was for somebody that sat next to passenger for a long period of time."

I think that this is a really bad subject because if people have things like this then if they know they shouldn't go in places like the bus, so things dont happen like this. I think that this is really sad because a lot of the people on the bus dont deserve to get this and now they have to go and get shots and things like that just because they had to ride the bus to get somewhere they had to be.

3) Police: Boy, 15, Waved Gun At Group of Children
POSTED: 5:18 pm EDT July 24, 2007
UPDATED: 6:10 pm EDT July 24, 2007

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Police arrested a 15-year-old boy in Manchester after a group of children complained that he waved a gun at them.
The teenager was arrested Monday and charged with reckless conduct, falsifying evidence, resisting arrest and tobacco possession. Police said they were not able to find a gun immediately.

I think this kid should get in trouble because no matter how mad you are you should never put a gun fake or not to anyone. If I was the childs parents then they would be grounded for a really long time. This is why I dont think that video games should have all of the killing and shoting it has these days. It makes kids so they think they can kill people or shoot people and thats not right at all.

assignment due 7/22

Chelsey Gould
type 2
due 7/22

3.Type 2 writing: Explain the benefits of keeping a 4 second following distance. Use power point presentation 7.03 to help you with this assignment. Post assignment by Sunday ,7/22.

Its good to use the 4 second following distance so if the person in front of you stops very fast you have 4 seconds to try to stop. If your at in intersection its good so if the person in front of you is driving a standard if they try to go they might roll back a little bit and if you use the 4 second following distance then you have a good chance they wont hit you.

assignment due 7/22

Chelsey Gould
type two
assignment due 7/22

2)Type 2 writing: Describe how to how to time your arrival to get to an intersection with a green light. Power point can be found in Module 6. Post assignment by Sunday, 7/22

You follow these steps

• See light in target area
• see red light as a closet front zone
• check rear zone
• alert rear-tap brakes
• begin constant braking
• time arrival into open zone
• at 10 mph, go or stop
• green light- search intersection
• red light- stop smoothly

thats how you time your arrival at a green light.

Chelsey Gould
type two
assignment due 7/22

1) Find 3 news articles and relate them to things we have read about and discussed in class. This is a type two writing and should contain factual details to respond to the news articles. Copy and paste the article and post the URL. These should be posted by Sunday 7/22.

No serious injuries after two-car crash in Chesterfield
Reformer.com

Thursday, July 19CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- A Bedford woman was sent to the hospital after a two-car crash at the intersection of Routes 9 and 63 in Chesterfield, Wednesday.
Teresa Geib, 43, had to be extracted from her 2007 Honda Civic using the Jaws of Life. Both the front and back driver's side door had to be removed, according to Chesterfield Police Lt. Duane Chickering.
Geib was transported to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene with injuries that were not life-threatening, Chickering said.
According to Chickering, Geib was driving west on Route 9 with her husband Eric, when the car of George Idelkope, 54, of Chesterfield, heading north on Route 63 across Route 9, hit the driver's side of the Geib car, and eventually came to a stop down a bank 30 feet from the roadway.
Neither Idelkope nor Eric Geib were hurt in the collision. "All parties were wearing seat belts," Chickering said. He also said due to the deployment of air bags in the Geib car, injuries were likely reduced.
Responding to the scene were Chesterfield police, fire and rescue, Spofford Rescue and the Keene Fire Department. Traffic was slowed in both lanes of Route 9, but continued to move. Traffic along the end of Route 63 to the south of Route 9 was halted while the scene was cleaned up. Both cars were towed from the scene.


I think this has to do with what were talking about because it has to do with the POT and LOS restrictions. The car should of been able to see the other car and predicted what they were going to do and try to do something to avoid the crash.


2)Concrete Smashes Cars On Route 495
(WBZ) LOWELL Chunks of concrete hit as many as four cars on Route 495 North in Lowell late Wednesday night.It happened near the Boylston Street overpass between Exits 37 and 38 around 11 p.m. State and Lowell police say they don't know if it was construction debris falling from the bridge or an act of vandalism.A family from Maine was in the area at that time when concrete shattered the window of their SUV. The driver had to have shattered glass washed out of his eyes.Other cars were hit on the hood and doors by debris. There were no serious injuries.Police looked at the overpass, but saw no signs of crumbling.A double high chain link fence is already on the bridge to make it difficult for people to launch debris on the highway.

This is about traffic safety. you should be looking for things that could cause problems and try to use the IPDE process. This could have done a lot more damage then it did.



3)Speeding Up I-93 Expansion Could Hurt Other Roads

(WBZ) CONCORD, N.H. While crews work to expand one of our busiest highways, the plan for I-93 in New Hampshire is changing.The original idea called for four lanes in each direction along the 20 mile stretch from Salem to Manchester with a 2012 completion date.The project came with a $750 million price tag.The new proposal by Transportation Commissioner Charles O'Leary calls for widening the roadway between the state line and exit 3 in Windham, and reworking exit 5.These projects will likely be completed in three years."We propose to do it in a manor that will maintain a reasonable flow of traffic, a safe flow of traffic, not only for the commuters but for the tourists," said O'Leary.But the situation isn't so rosy for other roads.O'Leary said more than 60 other projects must be scaled back or cut."We've recognized there has been rampant inflation in construction. A forty-five percent increase in the last three years," said O'Leary.The expansion project is on hold pending a lawsuit filed by some conservation groups. They want a rail plan required as part of the project.The stretch of I-93 from Salem to Manchester was built to accomodate more than 70,000 cars a day. It currently handles about 100,000 vehicles.
This is also traffic safety, They should have a different road that people can drive on when there doing all of these things on the roads. Its a hazard because people have to stop a lot and wait for other people to go. It also wastes your gas because you have to stop and go all the time. There is a better chance of crashes also.