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Safety & Maintenance
Road Rage
Here are tips for dealing with other peoples aggressive driving, at the same time as reducing your own
stress on the road. Traffic accidents are not inevitable, they are avoidable.
- Reduce you stress when you drive.
- Allow plenty of time for your trip,
improve the comfort of your vehicle in any way possible, and understand that
you cannot control traffic, only your reaction to it. Sometimes personal
frustration, anger, and impatience can be the most dangerous ‘drugs’ on the
roads.
- Assume other drivers’ mistakes are not personal.
- Be polite and courteous, even if the other driver is not. Avoid conflict and argument.
- Be a courteous driver.
Set an example.
- Control your own anger
- Don’t take traffic problems personally.
- Avoid making eye contact with an aggressive driver.
- Don’t make obscene gestures.
- Don’t tailgate.
- Don’t block the passing lane.
Know What To Do!
If you are confronted by an aggressive driver,
go to the nearest police station. Make sure your doors are locked at all times,
and if you are stopped in traffic leave enough room to pull out from the behind
the car you are following.
Drinking & Driving
We all know alcohol has serious effects on our ability to drive. Help your friends by
taking their keys when they have had too much to drink. It can be a responsible measure to get the keys from
someone who is drunk, and will not only make their life safer, but also those
who may be on the road at the same time.
- If the person is a close friend, try the calm suggestion that they let someone else drive.
- Joke about it, make light of it.
- Make it sound like you are doing them a favour.
- If you don’t know the person well, ask one of their close friends to speak to them.
- Insist that you will not get in the car with the person.
- Locate the person’s keys while they are preoccupied and take them away.
- If possible, avoid embarrassing the person or arguing.
Protect Your Kids
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All
children under 12 should be buckled up in the rear seat of the
vehicle.
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Children
should continue to use a belt-positioning booster seat until the seat
belts in the vehicle fit properly and the child’s legs are long enough to
bend over the edge of the seat.
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Holding
a child in your lap provides no additional safety. A 10lb infant would be
instantly ripped from an adult’s arms in a 45km an hour collision.
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Don’t
place a single seat belt across yourself and a child. Your body could
crush the child in a collision.
Seat Belts
Fact: Three of five people killed in vehicle accidents would have survived if they had been wearing a seat belt.
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Always
wear your seat belt and insist that passengers do the same. One
non-buckled person in a vehicle can seriously harm the others in an
accident.
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Seat
belts help prevent internal injuries by spreading the force of a collision
across two of the bodies strongest areas – the pelvis and chest. To ensure
proper function of the belt make sure the belt is positioned across the
upper thighs, and diagonally across the chest.
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Make
sure your belt fits snugly against your body. If it is too loose, you
could be injured by being thrown against the belt itself.
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