Some Important Facts on Crash Safety

There can’t be anything more harrowing than getting involved into a car accident. Apart from the damages it creates, even a small event of collision can stress you out while the entire incidence can drag you into more traumatic experiences as well as post-accident hazards.

Although in current days the cars and their occupants, especially the drivers are much more protected with the help of modern technologies.

These technologies in the first level help prevent the car from being into any risky encounter, like automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, lane keep assist, rear parking sensors etc.

In the next phase, the technologies see to it that the impact of the collision reduces, in case an accident gets inevitable. These are safety accessories like airbags, seatbelts, emergency roadside calling and so on.

But an expert who serves at one of the service centers of the Lexington Chevrolet pointed out, that even with the presence of these technologies, road accidents do take place, and he mentioned few most common reasons behind such misfortunes, that we thought of sharing here:

Driving Habits

Apart from distracted driving, which might not always the driver’s fault, there are some driving habits practicing which any driver will tend to invite trouble for no reason. These bad driving habits mostly show the following tendencies:

1. Disobeying the traffic law:
   Many drivers take pride and thrill in disobeying the traffic law and end up claiming lives just for the sake of self-entertainment. To ensure traffic safety, as a driver, one needs to immediately leave such habits.
2. Over Speeding:
   The entire incident of accident pivots around speeding vehicle. The slow vehicles are least in probability to get trapped into an accident, until some fateful incident takes place. but just by controlling the desire to over speed, more than half of the accident probability is reduced.

Not using car signals:

If a driver needs to take a turn, he is supposed to put the lane changing indicator to let the other drivers on road know his intentions. For those who think this is not necessary, accidents come as a natural consequence.

Wrong usage of Headlights

During night driving, the blinding lights from the vehicles coming from opposite direction causes lots of chances to cause a head on collision. The thumb rule is to lower the headlight intensity to help the other drivers to compose themselves.

Whatever the reasons are, if you get trapped in a car crash, here’s how to stay safe even in the worst situations:

Have an Emergency Kit Handy

We never know what the next moment has in store for us. So, better be safe than sorry. It is highly recommendable that we keep an emergency kit handy, in the glove box of our car, that can help us out in trying situations. the kit should have the following items in it.

• A First Aid Box
• A Fire extinguisher
• A Sharp knife to cut through a seatbelt in emergency
• Jumper cables
• Duct tape

Keep Emergency Numbers Visible

To get help as soon as possible, keep the contact numbers of your family and friends visible on the dashboard. So, if you stay prepared in advance to get the quickest possible aid, and avoid self-harming driving habits, you are taking bigger steps towards crash safety, say the Lexington Chevrolet dealership experts.