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Deadly Car Crashes Often Come down to One Thing: Speeding

By | June 13th, 2016

For a lot of motorists, speeding seems like one of the least offensive traffic violations. A common attitude of drivers is: “driving ten or fifteen mph over the speed limit doesn’t make you a criminal.” While this is generally true in the sense that most instances of speeding are considered infractions, speeding is a serious matter because of its dangers, three of which are discussed below: Speed Reduces Your Control Over Your Car The ability to steer and brake on the road is impossible without traction. If you’ve ever driven.

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Inappropriate Footwear That Cause Car Crashes

By | January 21st, 2016

No one disputes that your choice of footwear affects your ability to walk on snow-covered surfaces or your ability to jog or hike long distances. Few also dispute that the gas pedal and especially the brakes are important for safely driving a car. However, few appreciate how bad footwear compromises safe operation of the gas and brake pedals and therefore the safe operation of their car. Appropriate footwear should: Stay on your feet. Allow quick braking. Allow even exertion of pressure on the brake and gas pedals. Enable good sensitivity.

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Avoiding Whiplash in a Car Crash: Four Tips

By | January 15th, 2016

It’s the day after your car accident. Although you felt fine yesterday, this morning your neck is stiff and painful and you are also beginning to feel pain in your shoulder. These are some of the symptoms of whiplash. It’s a soft tissue injury that affects the ligaments of the neck and may involve the nerves as well. Whiplash can range from mild symptoms that require a few weeks of recovery to more severe cases with intense and chronic pain that persists beyond six months. For people with livelihoods requiring.

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Avoid a Crash: Tips for Driving in the Rain

By | January 15th, 2016

Over one million car crashes each year are blamed on wet roads. Therefore you will want to be careful when driving in the rain. Consider the following tips to help prevent ending up in a car accident! Car Maintenance Keeping your car well maintained is one key to avoiding a crash. Before you head out on a rainy day make sure your windshield wipers are in working condition. If they appear cracked it is time to replace them. In addition, run a test by spraying the windshield washer. If the wipers leave.

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Bad Driving Habits: The Greatest Cause of Lethal Car Accidents

By | January 15th, 2016

Habits are unthinking and automatic behavior. They are extremely useful because they free up the mind when doing routine activities. They also make complex behavior possible. Our daily routines are highly complex affairs, and without consigning these routines to habit, getting through the day would be mentally taxing and perhaps impossible. However, bad habits associated with dangerous activities such as driving can be lethal to both the person with the habit and to other motorists on the road. Here’s a question to consider. Which driver is most likely to cause.

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Avoiding a Car Crash: Tire Care Mistakes That Cause Blowouts

By | January 15th, 2016

Thanks to modern tire technology, blowouts are less common than in years past. However, even today’s best tires have a limit to the amount of abuse they can sustain. When a blowout occurs while rounding a corner or swerving to avoid an obstacle, the results are often devastating. Most drivers don’t know how to handle blowouts especially during high-speed travel. Their first reaction is to brake hard which causes a complete loss of control over the vehicle. Blowouts can also cause rollovers during hard turns in vehicles with a high.

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Three Distracted Driving Myths That May Get You into a Car Crash

By | January 15th, 2016

Safe driving starts with your beliefs and attitudes. The safety features of your car can only do so much to protect you from serious injury in a car crash. The rest is up to you to avoid accidents by driving safely. The problem is that many people have distorted ideas about safe driving because of the misinformation out there, especially about distracted driving. Here are three distracted driving myths that stubbornly persist: A Person Skilled at Multitasking Can Drive Safely When the brain is split between two cognitive tasks, it.

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How to Avoid Rear End Motorcycle Accidents

By | January 15th, 2016

While the potential for motorcycle accidents abound in the traffic situation ahead of the biker, he should never forget that danger lurks behind him as well. The motorcycle’s slender profile and lack of bright tail lights make it less visible from behind than from other angles. This means that the rear end motorcycle accident is an ever-present possibility. How does the motorcyclist protect himself from rear end accidents without eyes on the back of his head? By using the right defensive riding strategies. Deal Effectively with Tailgaters Tailgaters are best.

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Avoid a Car Crash: Five Safety Tips for Driving in the Fog

By | January 15th, 2016

Fog is one of the leading causes of chain-reaction car accidents. The best safety strategy for dealing with dense fog is never driving in it. When there is a weather advisory for fog and if your trip isn’t necessary, stay home until the fog has cleared. Fog is often localized to lakes, coastlines, and lowlands and is sometimes avoided by taking alternate routes. When avoidance is impossible, these five safety tips will help: Reduce Your Speed Your stopping distance should never exceed your visibility distance through the fog. Since the fog obscures.

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The Rear End Car Crash: Is the Driver in Back Always at Fault?

By | October 29th, 2015

It’s a common belief that in a rear-end collision, the driver of the car in back is always at fault. However, this glosses over the endless variety of circumstances surrounding this type of car crash where sometimes the lead driver shares or is entirely at fault. It is every driver’s responsibility to maintain their vehicle and drive in such a way so as to avoid running into the back-end of another car that stops or brakes suddenly. The driver must remain alert and adjust his following distance according to the.

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