Defensive Driving Tips and Techniques

Parking rage is fast becoming as prevalent and dangerous as road rage itself.  This very enlightening article by Katie Harvey explains:

Parking Rage:
We’ve all heard of road rage and many of us have experienced it at one point or another.  Now there’s parking rage, a lesser known but equally alarming phenomenon fueled by the scarcity of parking in our streets.

Parking rage has a number of different guises. The next time you see a motorist hurling abuse at a ticket warden, bumping into the parked car in front or behind just to squeeze into a spot or deliberately defying parking regulations and parking illegally, you’ll know someone’s seeing red over parking.

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Tags: Defensive Driving Basics, Road Rage

Motorcycle riding is much more dangerous than driving a car, but there are some things you can do to make it as safe as possible.

This informative article by Coleen Bennett tells you how:

Make Safety a High Priority:
Motorcycles are a great option for transportation. They use a lot less gas than cars, they take up less space on the highway and in parking lots, and they’re just plain fun to ride. The bad news is that they’re more dangerous than cars. There are some things you can do to make it as safe as possible.

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Tags: Defensive Driving Basics, motor cycle safety

Tags: car accident, road accident, Road Rage

It’s not big, it’s not clever and it most certainly is not cool, but even the most docile of us suffer from a bit of road rage now and again.

Overall, I love driving. There is nothing better than driving along a country lane in the middle of summer, with the sunroof open, windows down, and listening to one of those summer classics at full blast.

But it’s not this type of driving that sends people into a fury is it? It’s the London rush hour traffic; the traffic jams on the motorways; the congested roundabouts and idiots in car parks.

Even I am guilty of the odd bit of anger on the road. Nothing dangerous of course. I’m not out of control, maniacle or about to plough into someone, but there is nothing like having a good old moan about other people’s driving; they don’t have to hear you, they don’t have to see you making rude gestures at them out of the window, hell you don’t even have to make them!

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Tags: Defensive Driving Basics, Road Rage

The new DSA Motorcycle Test 2009 has recently been under public scrutiny due to the number of crashes within the first few weeks of its use. The aim of the test was to improve the standard of road safety for motorcycle riders and ultimately all road users.

The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) said that the new test was essential to help reduce the number of deaths of motorcyclists in the UK. However, within the first few weeks since the test was brought in (end of April 2009), there were approximately 15 incidents within the test centres, and one of the learners actually ended up with broken bones!

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