Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, fought for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape way — through the boot(行李箱).

Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠) at Romney, Kentucky, after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said, “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”

Mr. Johnson, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn(喇叭) and hammering on the roof and boot but failed. Then he began to use his own efforts to escape.

Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew(旋松) the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered hard with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”

It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench(扳手) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I unlocked the boot, the water and mud poured in.

His hands and arms cut and hurt，Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Trembling in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the car wheels could be seen, the police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.

(Suez, Egypt) Rescue teams succeeded on Monday in freeing a massive container ship that had been stuck m the Suez Canal(苏伊士运河)for the past seven days, blocking billions of dollars’ worth of goods from crossing one of the world’s busiest waterways.

”We pulled it off?“ said Peter, the CEO of the Dutch rescue firm, which was hired to assist in the process ”I am excited to announce that our team of experts successfully released the Ever Given on 29 March at 15:05 local time, thereby making free passage through the Suez. Canal possible again. “

According to the Suez Canal Authority, the I. 400-foot long ship became jammed across a southern section of the Suez Canal early on 23 March, leaving a total of 367 ships, Including dozens of container ships and bulk carriers, unable to use the key trading route.

The block has created a massive traffic jam in the vital passage, costing global trade between $6 bullion and SIO bullion a day according to one estimate.

The closing of the Canal threatened the oil and gas shipments to Europe from the Middle East. Already. Syria had begun limiting the distribution(分发)of fuel in the country because of concerns about delays of shipments arriving.

Shipping costs for oil product nearly doubled after the ship became stuck, and the blockage had harmed global supply chains, already affected by Covid-19 restrictions.

The Ever Given had moved away from its lodged position and was pulled toward the Great Bitter Lake, the widest part of the Canal, where it will undergo inspection for any technical issues.

Road traffic accidents are caused by a number of factors which can be grouped into three categories: human factors, vehicle factors and road environment factors. Table 1 explains each factor and gives examples.

One factor alone or several factors together can cause an accident. However, human actions are by far the greatest causes of car accidents. Diagram 1 shows that human factors are involved in 95% of all car accidents. Although other factors are also involved in 28% of these accidents, in 67% of cases, human factors alone are the cause of the accident.

Although behavior such as not paying attention to road, swerving to avoid an animal and eating while driving causes accidents, most road deaths are caused by speeding, driving after drinking alcohol, driving when tried and not wearing seat belts. As shown in Diagram 2, speeding is involved in more deaths than any other behavior in both city (50%) and country accidents (32%). Drivers and / or passengers not wearing seat belts is the second most common cause of road deaths.