Defensive Driving Tips and Techniques

A car offers a number of safety features that help to minimise the amount of damage one sustains during a car accident. Cars have seat belts installed that keep the driver and passengers from being bounced around freely in the vehicle if there is an accident. Seat belts also keep the passengers from being ejected from the vehicle. Meanwhile, riding on a motorcycle you have no such safety feature: this means in the event of motorcycle accidents you can be thrown from the motorcycle and seriously injured. (more…)

It is a great idea to work yourself into driving gradually. Perhaps you could get a friend or family member that has a few years of driving under their belt to sit with you for the first couple of road excursions. Make sure that you dont plan any long, gruelling cross country trips straight away. Also, stick to minor roads and just get used to being among other traffic and master being in full control of your vehicle. (more…)

* NEVER place a child in a rear-facing car safety seat in the front seat of a vehicle that has a passenger air bag. The safest place for all children to ride is in the back seat.

* NEVER leave your child unattended in a vehicle. Temperatures can reach deadly levels in minutes, and the child can die of heat stroke, or he could be taken during a car theft or kidnapped from the vehicle. (more…)

Throughout its 80-year history, the company has given the auto industry many safety innovations which have been proven time and time again to have saved lives of people involved in traffic accidents. One

of the most innovative safety technology ever developed by Ford did not happen recently. In fact, one of the most basic child-in-car safety devices is derived from Volvos safety developments made back in the 1960s. (more…)

We all love to drive, full stop! Whether it’s to the shops, visit friends, quite country drives or off to work.
Having said that it becomes easier to be complacent and forgetful of other road users and so often what
turns out to be a simple drive to a destination can turn into a devastating accident which, in fact, could
have been avoided with a little bit of “defensive driving” training from driving schools and courses, available across the country.

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