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Why I Won’t be Changing My Hand Position on the Steering Wheel Anytime Soon!

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Driver Education

A recent report on NBC news proclaimed that everyone that drives a motor vehicle has been lead astray by their “old school” driver education instructors. AAA and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration for many years have recommended the 9:00-3:00 hand position. Now many driver education and safety organizations are going one step further and recommending the 8:00-4:00 position. The rationale behind this dramatic change is because of the “violent” deployment of air bags during a collision. Airbags deploy at a speed of over 100 miles per hour. This rapid deployment along with a higher hand position, these authors contend, could cause “amputation of fingers and hands as well as traumatic fractures.”

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Handling Intersections: The Best Defensive Driving Strategies

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Handling Intersections

Did you know that 40% of all accidents occur at intersections? An intersection is created any time two or more roads come together. They come in many different shapes and sizes with very specific rules of driver conduct. There are basically two types of intersections: 1. Controlled and 2. Uncontrolled.

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Do You Use These Three Defensive Driving Strategies?

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Did you know that 80% of all accidents that occur on our US highways are preventable? Think of all the lives and money that would save our economy if we could actually prevent that many collisions. So, what can we as drivers do to help avoid these costly and sometimes deadly crashes? The first thing you can do is never assume that your driving counterparts are going to do what you expect them to. You have to learn how to take a defensive posture, and predict that other drivers will make mistakes that directly affect us, each and every day that we drive. Here are “Three Defensive Driving Strategies” that will help you to avoid a collision and make you a safer driver:

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Teenage Texting and Driving: The New Clear and Present Danger

 

 

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When teenagers hit the roads for the first time they are already dealing with three strikes against them. 1. They are inexperienced drivers. 2. They are immature drivers. and 3. They are in the risk pool, and as a result pay the highest amount for auto insurance in comparison to the rest of the driving population. It is  bad enough that teens already account for most of the fatal drinking and driving accidents in the United States, and now they have fatal texting accidents to add to that resume. “Teenage Texting and Driving : The New Clear and Present Danger!”

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Parents Need to be Partners in Driver Education!

According to the AAA Foundation of Traffic Safety, teenagers account for the highest number of automobile crashes in the United States. The ages IMG_3496bfree16-25 age group has been proclaimed the risk pool the by insurance agencies around the country, and as a result their rates are significantly higher than experienced drivers.  Teens also lead the way in mobile device crashes as well as alcohol fatalities. So how do we address this major societal problem? Stricter laws and increased fines have helped a little bit, but have not significantly made a difference in the lowering of the teen accident rate. Driver Education has also helped educate young drivers. but yet again has made only a small impact on this major problem.

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