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August 18, 2011
Safe Driving Tips
1. Maintain your car: Before driving, ensure your car is in working order. Get a tune up on tire tread and pressure, oil and fluid levels, lights, and windshield wipers. 2. Buckle up: According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), seat belts save lives, reducing car accident serious injuries and deaths by about 50%. Secure children in appropriately fitted car seats. 3. Don’t drink and drive: Hawaii laws making it a crime to drive with a blood alcohol concentration at or above a specified level, currently 0.08 percent (0.08 g alcohol per 100 ml blood). According to the CDC, a 12-ounce beer has about the same amount of alcohol as a 5-ounce glass of wine, or 1.5-ounce liquor. Drinking alcohol impairs coordination, slows reaction time, and judgment. These are skills necessary for safe driving. 4. Follow speed limits: Leave early for a meeting or school or work. Many people think they can sleep one minute later and then end up rushing out of the house. Some people think being late to a job interviewing is more devastating than dying on a freeway. Unexpected slow drivers, road construction, and poor weather conditions will make you want to race, but speeders don’t win.
5. Stay awake: Take advantage of rest stops. Turn on music. 6. Don’t get distracted: Do not do things in the car that take away focus from the road. Do not eat, text, or use the cell phone while driving. Program a GPS or print out a map before leaving or while stopped. Do not change the CDs, engage in heated conversations with a passenger, drink coffee, comb your hair, or put on makeup while driving. 7. Load SUVs with the proper weight: When loaded down with too much weight, SUVs become less stable. When there is too much weight on one side, the SUV can tip over. 8. Drive cautiously on rural roads: According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, more car crashes happen on rural roads than other areas. 9. Secure pets: Secure cats, birds, and dogs in case of a sudden stop. 10. Drive defensively: In a minute, a car wreck can take away a life. 11. Get rid of the spare tire: The spare weighs down a car for less fuel efficiency, and a person may be better off calling roadside assistance if s/he does not know of how to change a tire. Sadly, with congested traffic, and people drinking while driving or driving on a revoked license, vehicle accidents are bound to occur. Contact a Hawaii personal injury when you get involved in an accident.
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