Online Defensive Driving Tips

Driving on roads covered in ice and snow can be very dangerous. So, motorists should be extremely cautious and be safe while driving. The following tips will keep you safe when you are behind the wheel this season: 1.In shady areas, motorists may experience something known as black ice. Remember to slow down your vehicle in shady areas in these types of weather conditions. 2.Before you start out, test your braking and steering ability. Always start by slowing down at least three times sooner than you would normally while stopping or turning. 3.Chains and snow tires help you stay safe wherever ice and snow are accumulated on the road. Chains are always better preferred because snow tires tend to slip on ice and packed snow. 4.A safe speed range does not exist in such conditions. Therefore be extremely cautious before you can determine exactly how much friction you can expect from the tires of your vehicle. 5.Do not make quick and sudden movements of the steering and always apply brakes ...

A 22 year old woman was held for driving under the influence. She allegedly drove her car into a man riding a scooter and didn't stop. She was arrested on Friday night in St. Petersburg. The lady, Jessica J. Eddy, of 6424 Emerson Ave S, will now have to face charges for drunk driving and causing serious injuries to the man she hit into. It is alleged that she was driving on a suspended license. Bruce W. Barber Jr., the victim she is accused of hitting, is from St. Petersburg. Barber was immediately rushed to the Bayfront Medical Center. His condition is critical but stable. The Police says that Eddy was driving a 1997 BMW east on Third Avenue South. The incident happened at 11:30 pm when she tried to navigate a right turn towards 64th Street South. Unfortunately, she made the turn too wide and came into the lane where Barber was riding his scooter, which was in the northbound lane of 64th Street. According to the police, Barber tried to avoid the collision by trying to lay the scoo...

South Jersey HealthCare Elmer Hospital would sponsor a driver safety program on Wednesday. The seats for the same would be available for a two day course. The participants who really want to opt for this course would require to attend both the classes which are being run for four hours each day. On successful completion of this course each attendee would receive a certificate which would qualify you for a 5 percent reduction in violations against New Jersey driver license. The Driver Safety Program is nation’s first and largest classroom course which is designed specifically for drivers in age of 50 or younger. This course emphasizes safety and defensive driving class teaching with new laws and rules for the road. It teaches one how older people can adjust the driving to compensate for age-related changes in vision, hearing and reaction time as to how one can handle problem situations making them a left-away turn, with free away driving, blind spots and driving distractions. It also te...

There are Nobel prizes being awarded to everyone who are great in their own fields. A highlight of 2003 Nobel ceremony was the evening shortest lecture, with people who spoke on automobile safety. Also in 2003, researchers for National Traffic Safety proposed an extensive paper on the same theme. They all wanted to study drivers to know what risks were associated with them using the cell phones. But such never happened making public aware of hundreds of pages of research and warnings which was due to the exceeding agency’s mission of compiling information. But last week the research was made open to public, as a result of Freedom of Information Act suit by two consumer groups. We are all aware of the dangers of distracted driving, but one need to just imagine how much it would have been if the research comes to a full blown study. From the statistics researchers revealed out that cell phone use by drivers were responsible for 955 fatalities and around 240,000 accidents. Based on the as...

The judges assigned traffic tickets to defensive driving class participants. The District Court Division decides which defendants are sent to defensive driving. The place where they live would make them take a specific class. The chief official who is teaching the course is registered with National Safety Council. There are lot of questions which arise for this program that whether this program can be run and if run the where would be the revenue from the class be handled and the city officials scraped the idea for running such a program. So it is in real mess to the judges whether such a course should come into existence, with many of problems it has.