If speed driving is to be blamed for road accidents, so should be with driving during rush hours. But picture we all know about rush hours will wonder, how can accidents take place, when no car is actually moving at all? How can a collision take place especially when all the roads are jam packed with innumerable vehicles standing in queue, waiting for the signals to clear their side.
But the accident records will tell you a different story altogether. There you’ll find that there are some highest occurrences of road accidents during rush hours that mostly include fender-benders and rear collision. It so happens, that since limitless waiting in the signals make the drivers anxious, they run out of their patience and try to be ahead of others, once the signal gets clear. In the process, while some faces rear collision, others face fender benders, as they try to pick up a high speed all of a sudden. Then there are chances of lane departing where the following vehicles have rammed into the ones driving ahead and the list goes on.
So, how to avoid such risks and drive safe during rush hours? At the San Antonio Mazda a driving school trainer gave us the following tips.
Stay Extra Attention when the Signal Gets Clear
You have been at the edge of your patience while sitting in your car waiting for the signal to get clear, for indefinite period of time, and then the signal really turns green for you. all the cars waiting for the same are as impatient as you. So, each will try to bypass the other and drive ahead of others. But that is the time, when maximum accident take place. Just to be on time every one on the roads will be desperate to overtake the other vehicles and compensate the delay by speeding up their vehicle during this trials. But that’s when you invite trouble by invading the space of other cars that are there in front of you, and the ones just on your both sides. As a result, the rear end of your car can collide with the head of the car that was following you, and that’s enough to place you amidst a mess.
Make Good Use of the Rear Mirrors:
If you need to change your lane safely while driving, all you need to do is making good use of the rearview mirrors, to make sure no other car, SUV or truck is following you. Look in the mirrors, wait a little to allow enough distance between your car and the other’s to avoid a collision.
Safe Merging:
During rush hours, drivers tend to be in anxiety, as delay is inevitable. Maximum number of accidents happen in rush hours, when a car attempts to merge into a highway from a sideway. So, while doing the same, the drivers must start the blinkers to indicate to which side you’re planning to go. While merging with a higher planed highway, always check there’s no vehicle in proximity that can dash you, of you’ve already crossed the time limit. So you need to be careful while merging to a highway, and go ahead only you find the road to be relatively less crowdy, suggested the experts of a famous Mazda dealer near San Antonio.
