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Driving is one of the most dangerous things we do everyday. The chances of being in an accident or witnessing one are pretty high. Here are some thoughts of what you can do if you find your self on scene at an accident.
Driving
- Most Dangerous thing we do everyday
- Pay attention
- Normal Stuff
- Space Cushion
- Adjust your mirrors correctly
- Don’t Text
- Don’t use the phone
- Don’t drive drunk
- Don’t drive tired
- Experience Taught Me
- Look at what people are going to do and give them extra space
- 90% of everything can be solved by turning the wheel
- De-conflict things by changing your speed (speed up or slow down)
- Be aware of the cars around you and what kind of drivers they are
- Expect people to do stupid things
- Look at the car in front of you and the cars three or four a head or you
- Accident Proof your car
- Tie loose things down in your car
- Get a tune up
- Practice
- Make driving the number one thing
Accidents Happen: What to do?
- Make sure you are safe first
- Evaluate the scene and your safety
- Consider using your car as a shield
- What are lighting conditions like?
- Use a flashlight (old cop trick, turn the light on and stick it in your back pocket shining up)
- Use a vest
- Should you actually stop or just call for help?
- On you are safe, does anyone else need to move?
- By-standers
- Victims
- Bad Accidents
- Triage
- Who can survive without help, who can you help survive, and who can’t you help?
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- Know one will know what to do, but something is almost always better then nothing
- If you can walk over here
- Get others to help you, they just need some direction
- Everyone wants to help, but doesn’t have any
- Traffic
- It’s going to suck, let it
- Call 911
- Location
- Who is hurt, how badly
- Where vehicles are stopped
- Traffic
- Police approach
- Other hazards
- Stay or Go?
- It’s up to you
- You don’t have to be a witness
- Police will ask for your license
- Victims won’t want to talk to you consider having business cards with your info
- Take Notes
- Who, What, Where, Why, How
- Facts
- Chronological order
- What you saw and what you did
- People Names and descriptions, what car they came from
- Where you where going and what you saw
- Then what you did
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Ben
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One important tip I have learned that has actually helped me avoid many crashes or near-crashes is to watch the other car’s tires. Just like in boxing you watch your opponents shoulders because once they move you know the punch is coming. You see his shoulders move before you see his fist. It gives you reaction time. Same with a car’s front tires. Once I was trying to pass an 18-wheeler. I saw the tires coming over towards me and knew he didn’t know I was there – or give a damn -so I slowed down, got over in the shoulder a bit and dropped behind him in just in time for his lane change. Same thing at stop signs and red lights. When coming to an intersection you don’t have to stop at, watch the tires of cars approaching the stop signs on the right and left. Many times I’ve anticipated a driver running the stop sign and pulling out in front of me! Again, I had just enough reaction time to slow down or whatever I had to do to avoid slamming into the dummy. The tires telegraph to you the driver’s intention. Start watching other cars’ front tires and you’ll see what I mean.
Thanks for the tip Tom. I’ve used that trick when passing parked cars waiting for people to pull out, but not on moving vehicles. I’ll start using that tip.