The only way to improve road safety is to give much stricter punishments on driving offenses. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

People have different views about how to make our roads safer. Personally, I disagree with the view that imposing stricter punishments is the only way to improve road safety because there is a range of other measures which can be used together to do this effectively.

Stricter punishments can certainly deter drivers from driving dangerously on the roads. There have been numerous of road accidents which are the inevitable consequences of carelessness or dangerously. For example, many young people drive a car while intoxicated or use a mobile phone while driving. The penalties for driving offenders can act as a deterrent, so that many drivers will think twice about avoiding traffic offenses. Various types of driving penalties such as heavy fines, the confiscation of driving licenses or even a prison sentence should be adopted with dangerous drivers. The harsh punishments can make drivers follow the road rules and drive more carefully.

Nevertheless, I believe that the use of alternative measures by national and local authorities can promote driving safety. Firstly, it is essential to educate people properly before they start to drive. In order to ensure drivers to be aware of implementing the letter of the law strictly, these educational programs could be done in schools or in more difficult driving tests. As a result, the number of road accidents caused by teenagers may be declined in communities. Secondly, many governments around the world have succeeded in using traffic calming measures such as speed bumps, road bends, speed cameras to reduce the number of road accidents, especially in built-up areas. Finally, governments or local councils could invest more in better public transport, which would mean that fewer people would need to work or travel by their private vehicles.

From all the above-mentioned, I believe that it is not enough to improve road safety by only punishing more harshly driving offenders. Other road safety measures should also be introduced and used together towards better driving habits.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, while, as to, for example, such as, as a result

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1728.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 325.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31692307692 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82816602711 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572307692308 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0893535193 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3125 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6875 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24266587733 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0823179436104 0.084324248473 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0770275170118 0.0667982634062 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174844360975 0.151304729494 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0734778405332 0.056905535591 129% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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