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Avoid a Car Accident on Your Work Commute with These Five Tips

By | June 30th, 2016

Commuting is a dangerous activity because the roads are packed with motorists in a rush to get to their destinations. When you’re late to work and the traffic isn’t cooperating, it can put you in a very bad mood. This mindset, common to many commuters, can lead to aggressive driving and car accidents. Here are five tips for safe commuting: Minimize commuting. Ask if you can work from home on days that don’t require interaction with others at your job. The Internet as well as cloud computing make this possible,.

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Six Tips for Avoiding Fatigue-Induced Motorcycle Accidents

By | June 13th, 2016

Fatigue diminishes your mental alertness and riding skills, and as many athletes know, fatigue also degrades muscular coordination. Motorists driving in cars need only concern themselves with staying awake and alert. On the other hand, the act of motorcycling itself is physically exhausting. After several hours on a bike, numb hands, tired forearms, neck fatigue, constant wind exposure, and the pressure of the helmet on your head combine together to wear you down. In such a state, the biker is a motorcycle accident waiting to happen. This common cause of.

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Eight Safety Tips for Avoiding Backing Car Accidents

By | June 13th, 2016

Backing vehicles account for one in four accidents. Given that the average distance covered while backing up is measured in tens of feet, that’s a lot of car accidents per mile driven. The reasons come down to the driver’s poor visibility and not exercising the proper precautions. Here are eight safety tips to avoid becoming a statistic: Don’t back up. Whenever possible, position your car while parking so that you can leave by moving forward. If you can’t do this without backing into the space, it is still preferable to.

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Three Safety Tips for Avoiding a Car Accident with a Train

By | June 13th, 2016

When motorists think of traffic, they visualize various types of automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles. Rarely do they consider the train a part of the vehicular hazards of driving. However, unlike cars or trucks, trains weigh millions of pounds and when traveling at 55 mph, may take up to a mile to come to a stop. This means that avoiding a car accident with a train amounts to just one single thing: staying out of their way. Here are three tips for doing exactly that: Assumptions About Trains Can Kill Railroad.

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Five Senior Safety Tips for Avoiding a Car Crash

By | June 13th, 2016

Aging affects vision, hearing, reaction time, and can affect the joints used in driving such as the knuckles, wrists, and elbows. However, these and other changes need not prevent you from driving if you know how to compensate for them. If you find that driving is getting more difficult, these five suggestions will make driving easier and safer: Take Advantage of Car Features That Will Help Your Driving While new cars should have anti-lock braking systems, make sure that your car has this feature and learn how to properly use.

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Protect Your Child: Properly Use Car Seats

By | June 13th, 2016

Car accidents happen for even the safest of drivers. Statistics indicate that the average American driver will have a collision every 5 to 8 years. Teenage and senior drivers have an even higher accident likelihood. Therefore it is important to protect all vehicle occupants by using proper restraints. Buckle Yourself Kids will follow the example of their parents. Be sure to buckle yourself in any time you are driving anywhere. Even if it is only a couple of miles take the few seconds to buckle yourself. You will be setting a good.

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Four Tips To Avoid Motorcycle Accidents

By | January 15th, 2016

There are so many motorcycle accidents these days. People can be careless when they are out driving so you need to do everything that you can possibly do to protect yourself when you are out riding your bike. Here are some motorcycle tips to keep you safe while you are out riding. Drive safely. Give yourself plenty of time to get where you are going so you are not in a hurry and make stupid mistakes. Assume that drivers are not looking for you. If you are going to assume.

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Controversy over daylight savings time points to light as important to traffic safety

By | January 15th, 2016

The annual end and beginning of daylight savings time often kicks off a predictable debate among advocates of enforcing daylight saving time year around and those who want the divisions to remain where they are. Time magazine, for example, quotes a University of Wisconsin professor who advocates keeping DST year-round as saying that more light later in the day would be safer, as more people are out and about later in the day.  On the other hand, groups like the National Parents Teachers Association believe that keeping DST is important for.

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Tips to Avoid Car Accidents this Holiday Season

By | January 15th, 2016

In 2014, AAA forecast that 89% of Thanksgiving travelers (that’s 41.3 million people) would travel by automobile over the holiday weekend. The National Safety Council predicted that because of driving accidents there would be 418 deaths and just under 45,000 non-fatal injuries serious enough to require medical attention during the same time period. This makes the Thanksgiving holiday period (Wednesday to Sunday) the third most dangerous holiday for road fatalities in the U.S. Here are some tips to help keep you safe and avoid car accidents while on the road.

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Avoiding Whiplash in a Car Crash: Four Tips

By | January 15th, 2016

It’s the day after your car accident. Although you felt fine yesterday, this morning your neck is stiff and painful and you are also beginning to feel pain in your shoulder. These are some of the symptoms of whiplash. It’s a soft tissue injury that affects the ligaments of the neck and may involve the nerves as well. Whiplash can range from mild symptoms that require a few weeks of recovery to more severe cases with intense and chronic pain that persists beyond six months. For people with livelihoods requiring.

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