Defensive Driving Rules

Rule 4: Wear your seat belt


We seldom realize the importance of seat belts until we come across an accident. The sole purpose of seat belts is to protect us at the time of collision. It not only sustains crash forces but also keeps us from being thrown out of the vehicle. All major researches show that the majority of death, at the time of crash, occurred because the persons involved were driving without wearing seat belts. Yet we come up with a variety of excuses for not wearing them. Some of them are:

1.“I don’t feel comfortable.” “It’s suffocating.” “I can’t breathe properly.”
Are they really so uncomfortable? Nothing is as comfortable as dying or spending months in hospital or losing one of the limbs.

2.It wrinkles my neatly ironed clothes. Undoubtedly, they do.

3.“I don’t want to stick to the seat at the time of crash. What if I’m trapped or my vehicle catches fire?” But the fact is, people get killed by smashing themselves inside the vehicle. Being thrown outside is even dangerous. Besides, it helps you stay conscious; therefore, more likely to escape in case the engine catches fire.

4.“Those who ride with me make fun of me if I’m wearing the seat belt.” You must not listen to them or the best would be to ask them to wear it. The point is why to keep such company who are so irresponsible. Let them realize the fact that wearing seat belts prevent over 50% of deaths and injuries.

5.“I don’t care!” Some of us are living daredevils and would never fear death. There are certainly other ways to express our audacity. Wearing seat belt is for our good; we better accept it at the earliest.

Defensive Driving Rules

Rule 3: Say no to speed!

Why to drive fast? How many times are we really desperately in need of driving fast?
We really don’t have any obvious reason; we just do it deliberately for overtaking other vehicles, or without realizing the growing speed. Whatever may be the case, the risk of collision always persists. Speed driving increases the risk of collision in two ways: one, it cuts your reaction time. Two, it results in more stored energy that must be dispelled in any collision.
Let’s listen to what science says: “Each incremental increase in speed reduces our ability to react in time to hazards, because we are covering distances in lesser time than what it takes to react.” It worsens while driving at night; since darkness substantially reduces our visibility.

Experienced and sensible drivers keep themselves at a speed that matches with the traffic and never exceed or slow under.
Does speeding really save much time?
In most of the cases, we find the car who took us over about half a mile back to be waiting at the next red light.
It doesn’t save much time, does it?
Say no to speed!
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Defensive Driving Rules

Rule 2: Trust nobody but yourself

Ready-to-learn attitude, which assists taking precious lessons from previous mistakes, will further extricate your dexterous hands from similar troubles on noisy roadway. It is better anticipating that other drivers might make mistakes; it’s you who should be circumspect to disentangle yourself from unpredictable menace- ‘drivers’ and opposite will make your life reliant on clemency of bear party returner or violent youngsters. It has been corroborated that most of the collisions occur because of others’ carelessness. Remember, your one inane mistake can welcome accidents that will cruelly snatch your valuable life from the beautiful world.


Don’t be too trusting
Believing that other drivers, who might be adolescents, are quite threatening for you, you are opening up a space to adopt a wary approach to be a guarantor of own life because if traffic rules fail to save you, it’s your adroit mind responsible for dealing with them strategically and providing instant safety.