Category Archives: Driver Safety For You & Your Family
← Older postsInsurance discounts with DefensiveDriving.com, your…
Good news. It is still the beginning of the year! This means that we have time to plan especially, financially. With gas prices on the rise, we could all use some extra savings. How can you save? You can save … Continue reading
Posted in Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Forgetting Court Requirements
Everyone is busy. Always, all the time. For the purpose of this blog, this is exactly why you received a traffic citation. This citation that was issued 25 days ago and now you have to go to court in a few days. After … Continue reading
Posted in Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Oh Deer! What to Do When You Hit an Animal
No matter where you’re driving, in a residential area or on the open road, you run the chance of hitting an animal, on accident of course. Animal accidents are common in this day and age. However, it’s important to know … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips, Rules of the Road: Driving Tips |The Best Ways to Prevent Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is now one of the biggest problems that is endangering drivers across the United States. Whether it’s texting, talking on the phone, eating, or anything else that takes your mind, hands or eyes off of the road, … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Distracted Driving, Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Distracted Driving is Dangerous
While traveling on a major freeway last week, I glanced at a neighboring motorist and noticed that the drivers’ head was completely down. The driver was not looking at the road at all. I counted how many seconds her head … Continue reading
Posted in Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Why People Merge At The Last Second
The “Zipper Merge” is among the most misunderstood and polarizing techniques on the road. People often misunderstand the reasons why merging late is actually preferable to a more “polite” method of everyone staying in the final lane prior to … Continue reading
Posted in Driver Safety For You & Your Family |Top 10 Things You Need in Your Car Emergency Kit
You don’t wait until a disaster to get prepared do you? Of course not. So why wait for an emergency to get the most complete car emergency kit you can get? First aid kits celebrate their 130th birthday this year. … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Helping You Drive Safely | Tagged Blanket, Duct Tape, emergency, emergency car kit, Fire Extinguisher, First Aid Kit, Flashlight, Headlamp, Jumper Cables, Lantern, Multipurpose tool, Reflective Triangles, Tow Rope |Trick or Treat: Road Safety Tips for Halloween
Grab your scary mask and put on some comfortable shoes, because the time for trick-or-treating is here once again. And whether or not you are playing chaperone this year, anyone who will be out and about this Halloween needs to … Continue reading
Posted in Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips |Share the Road: How to Drive Safely Around School Buses
Though most of us drive regular passenger cars, there are a lot of other types of vehicles on the road, and in order to avoid serious traffic accidents, we all have to do our best to drive safely around each … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family, Driving and Safety Tips |Who Has the Right of Way?
Although we should all know the rules of the road pretty well by the time we are in control of our own automobile, there are always a few gray areas on the road that cause the occasional–often avoidable–accident. One problem … Continue reading
Posted in Defensive Driving Online, Defensive Driving Tips, Driver Safety For You & Your Family | ← Older posts
