Safe Driving – Avoid Traffic Accidents, Part 1
We’re all thinking about safe driving. There is nothing fun concerning the inconvenience, cost, trauma and pain related to traffic accidents. Some accidents are our fault plus some are the fault of other drivers. I would recommend that we can avoid nearly all traffic accidents you need to be as being a little more “heads up” about our driving.
The idea that we are able to avoid nearly all accidents is perhaps quite novel with a of us, but it’s true. Let me explain and provide a good example.
The old saying “look out for that other guy” is perhaps all we are able to remember about various public service announcements associated with safe driving. Being safe behind the wheel is much more than that, but awareness reaches the core. Allow me to relate one story that illustrates the point.
One day on a trip on the busy road, I quickly brought the vehicle to a stop just over time to prevent running into a vehicle that entered my driving lane. Courteous but thoughtless drivers in stopped traffic in oncoming lanes to my left had allowed a mindless driver to cut across and blindly enter my side from the road where traffic was tooling along at quite a good clip.
The offending vehicle was completely “screened” by the many cars arranged on the left side from the road. To add to the problem, I was traveling up an incline which helped further reduce my ability to see cross traffic – I could not see over or between many of the vehicles as my car was considerably lower. Another driver was definitely not respecting my right of way and acted quite selfishly and carelessly. Nevertheless, I was in a position to steer clear of the accident because I saw it coming.
The passenger in my car said, “I don’t know the way you saw him finding those lanes of traffic. I would have hit him without a doubt.” I explained that when I could not see within the vehicles to my left, I merely looked underneath the cars and saw the wheels of cross traffic headed on a collision course around.
If we had had any sort of accident, it would happen to be the other guy’s fault, but nonetheless, my car would have been damaged along with other vehicles could have been involved as well since I would certainly have slammed into his vehicle. I would not have been held responsible for the accident, but it is still my responsibility to be safe – regardless of how many idiots come my way.