Category Archives: Driver Safety For You & Your Family
← Older postsWhy People Merge At The Last Second
The “Zipper Merge” is among the most misunderstood and polarizing techniques on the road. People often misunderstand the reasons why merging late is actually preferable to a more “polite” method of everyone staying in the final lane prior to … Continue reading
Posted in Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Top 10 Things You Need in Your Car Emergency Kit
You don’t wait until a disaster to get prepared do you? Of course not. So why wait for an emergency to get the most complete car emergency kit you can get? First aid kits celebrate their 130th birthday this year. … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Helping You Drive Safely | Tagged Blanket, Duct Tape, emergency, emergency car kit, Fire Extinguisher, First Aid Kit, Flashlight, Headlamp, Jumper Cables, Lantern, Multipurpose tool, Reflective Triangles, Tow Rope |Trick or Treat: Road Safety Tips for Halloween
Grab your scary mask and put on some comfortable shoes, because the time for trick-or-treating is here once again. And whether or not you are playing chaperone this year, anyone who will be out and about this Halloween needs to … Continue reading
Posted in Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips |Share the Road: How to Drive Safely Around School Buses
Though most of us drive regular passenger cars, there are a lot of other types of vehicles on the road, and in order to avoid serious traffic accidents, we all have to do our best to drive safely around each … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips |Who Has the Right of Way?
Although we should all know the rules of the road pretty well by the time we are in control of our own automobile, there are always a few gray areas on the road that cause the occasional–often avoidable–accident. One problem … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Share the Road: How to Drive Safely Near Emergency Vehicles
Emergency vehicles are essential in keeping our communities safe, which is why we always give way to them on the roads. But when you are driving on the road, it can sometimes be difficult to know what actions you should … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips |What New Car Tech Features Can We Expect in 2015?
One of the best parts of an old year ending, is looking forward to all of the exciting new things that might come in the next one. Especially when it comes to dreaming up what sort of new technology we … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Driving, Defensive Driving Online, Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Unique Ways Cities are Fighting Drunk Driving this New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve is a time of celebration, fresh starts, and looking to the future. But it is also the worst day of the year for drunk driving, with hundreds of deaths on this day each year. We are all … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Distracted Driving, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips |How to Drive Safely in Strong Wind
Now that we are in the middle of autumn, weather is getting colder and those blustery fall winds are making it that little bit more difficult to drive. Strong wind can be a dangerous hazard when driving, and it does … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips |Share the Road: How to Drive Safely Around Motorcycles
There are more than 8 million registered motorcycles on the roads of the United States, and in the past decade there was an average of close to 4,800 motorcyclist fatalities each year. Nobody wants this number to keep rising, and … Continue reading
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