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Each year about 3300 people, which is about 9 on a daily basis, are killed or disabled because of car accidents in Great Britain. Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has become a list of ten tips that could prevent accidents.
1. Check your speed regularly, especially when coming off high speed roads.If you do not regularly check your speedometer sometimes it is very easy to not realize how fast you go. You can be in a populated area where there is a minimum speed limit, but to comply, which can feel like you're crawling. Verify that you are in the regular speed limit can not only save you a fine for speeding, but can save lives too.
2. Know the limits - look for signs, especially at intersections. You need to know the speed limit of roads you use. In many cases, the nature of the road does not indicate the speed limit. In urban areas, such as dual carriageways can have limits of 30 mph, 40 mph, 50 mph, 60 mph or 70 mph. Speed limit signs tend to be placed at intersections, as is usually the time when the boundary changes. However, unions are also the place where you have to absorb a lot of different information and is easy to ignore a speed limit sign when concentrating on one or several other things (for example, which way I go, the driver is going to take, etc..) You must make it a habit to check the speed limit signs at intersections, and coach for signs after the junction, especially if the nature of the route has changed.
3. Assume lamp posts mean 30 mph, until signs say otherwise - but remember that it could be up to 20 mph. Highway Code recommends that the street lights generally means that the limit is 30 mph unless signs show otherwise. Use common sense and cited as well. If it seems built in residential areas to calculate the speed to 30 mph.
4. Remember that speed limits are a maximum, not the objective. Examples of situations where drivers must drive at lower speeds limits are. around schools at opening and closing, when children are in the process (especially in residential areas, near playgrounds or parks), in narrow busy roads where parked vehicles reduce the width of the road in the rural roads are narrow and winding and hilly and visibility is reduced in bad weather or poor visibility, on wet, icy or snowy or road works.
5. 20 is a lot when the kids are about - and maybe even too fast. One of the most effective ways we can ensure that a child running into the street or made a mistake not to pay for a bike that mistake in their lives, is to slow down when children are or may be, about.
6. Try no better than third gear in a 30 km / h limit. If you have trouble keeping your car in the 30 km / h when running in an area of 30 miles per hour, trying to drive in third gear (or less if necessary). If you can easily move to 30 km / h in third gear without feeling that the engine is stretched, to adopt 'no higher than third in 30 km / h "as a principle.
7. Identify what makes you speed - keeping up with traffic, overtaking or tailgated. All of us, because we sometimes faster. It may be hard to listen to music, or feeling stressed the driver too close behind. Deleting a trigger rate for staff and then deal with them is a good way to go.
8. Concentrate - distracted drivers speed. Attention when driving is obviously very important and can lead to less speeding.
9. . Villages are in rural areas and usually surrounded by a limit of 60 mph. But, of course, the same town is pedestrians, cyclists, intersections, slow vehicles.
10. Give yourself time - no need to speed and get faster. You're late for you to drive faster to catch up. The reality in many cases is that you can try to act as the tap, but do not much faster than when driving normally.
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