One of the busiest places in any city is its roads. The roads are the primary route for transportation of all land goods and people too. Everyone is on the roads year over. Car drivers are one of them. As a car driver on the busy streets of Oklahoma where you have the largest population of the red people of America; yes, the native Americans as you would call them, you wouldn’t need a newsman to feed you in on the details of the high occurrence of accidents on the busy highways.
Essential Safety Steps Every Car Driver Should Know By Heart
You won’t quit the roads because of the dangers inherent but you can take measures to avoid getting involved in one yourself. Here are six highly useful tips you could use to prepare yourself for accident-free driving all year long:
Avoid The Use Of Intoxicating Substances Before Or During Driving
Driving with full wide-open eyes and a perfectly functional reasoning system hasn’t even guaranteed 100% safety from road hazards; how much less driving under the influence of drugs. Any whole and the safety-minded driver would stay away from drunk driving. It’s one of the leading deaths through accidents. In fact, based on reports from the national council on alcoholism and drug dependence, 100 in 300 car crashes resulting from drunk drivers. Yearly death rates from accidents with an alcohol cause stand at 13,000 in the USA alone according to research reports.
These figures go on to buttress reasons why drunk driving must be completely frowned upon. However, what if you weren’t the one driving? What could you do? In some situations, If you are a passenger in an accident, you have the right to request compensation for personal injury. After all, you definitely must have noticed –if you were closer to the driver– his drink-filled state and must have been beckoning on him to either stop the vehicle for you to alight away to your own safety or for him to slow down, but your cries weren’t heeded.
Bottom line is that every driver should stay clear of drugs and all other driving impairments to have a full clear vision of things and to respond positively at all times.
You Must Have Unabridged Attentiveness
Remaining conscious of the roads on a milliseconds basis is pivotal to having better road security and accident freedom. While multitasking is an appreciable gift that finds special use in places like the banks and supermarkets or even schools, this work quality and skill is not needed here on the roads. Keep those phones locked out of sight. You could confine them to the back bonnet like you would your other luggage just to avoid the distraction they bring.
Don’t Eat While Driving
Park and have a good afternoon lunch. Don’t multitask driving and lunch all at once. Don’t discuss the previous night’s nice time you had with your passengers either. Focus all attention on the driving assignment just as you would do when you’re about to cross a very busy highway. It takes a second for accidents to occur, and that’s why concentration is such a big deal on the roads.
Watch Out For Blind Spots
Blindspot refers to that part of the road that is hidden from your own sight. You would have to use both side mirrors and the internal rearview to have full knowledge of what’s happening around and behind. It can also be the portion of the road at which the driver in front of you can’t possibly figure out that you’re behind him or by his side. (This is more common in turns and sharp bends.) Even trailers suffer from blind-spot issues.
What is most recommended when safety is the concern, is to turn around yourself when in a car to verify that what your side mirrors and rearview showed is true and reliable. If you don’t do this you may make a little too-late costly mistake.
In the same vein, be sure that the driver in your front has a full view of you and don’t drive too close to him. He may miss you and none of his mirrors would show him you were there especially if you’re a smaller car.
Don’t Exceed Speed Limits
Every street has its recommended speed limit, stay within the confines of that limit. You should even go slower than the limit given especially in cases of harsh weather.
Always Use The Turn Signals Just In Time
It’s better to turn on the left or right signals just a few seconds before you use it. Some drivers put it on when they are still minutes away; that can be misleading and confusing. In fact, a driver who has noticed that your turn signals have been active for long may assume you forgot to turn it off and that you’re not actually going to make a turn. You know what that can lead to, That’s it about safe driving. Don’t forget to keep your distance from other vehicles. It gives you ample time to break.