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Hi there smart drivers, Rick with Smart
Drive Test talking to you today about
skills and techniques that you could put
in place to prevent yourself being
rear-ended. I was looking at Facebook last
week and there was a campaign against
distracted driving. And the campaign
showed this awful traffic crash of a
lorry driver--a tractor-trailer driver--on
the motorway in the UK careening down
the motorway and plowed into a line of
queued up traffic that was obviously
waiting to exit the motorway. It had been
determined he was distracted driving because there was a camera in
the cab of the truck - that the driver had
been changing the music on his phone. As
well the crash was caught on dashcam.
Somebody had a rear-facing dash cam and
the lorry was careening down the
motorway. It didn't even see the line of
queued traffic and didn't even apply the
brakes and simply plowed into the back.
And four children were killed in the
crash, which as a parent myself and those
of you who are parents we realized that it
just makes us absolutely sick because we
would do anything to protect our
children. A few years ago, there was a
video that we showed to new drivers in
training courses called "Sitting Duck" and
it was about the dangers of sitting
along highways and sitting along
freeways. And one of the things that we
teach new drivers for the purposes of a
road test, and one of the skills that you
should keep with you for the remainder
of your driving career and will help you
to not be rear ended when you're sitting
in a queue or sitting in traffic. So
that's what we're going to talk to you
today about - skills and techniques that
you can put in place to guard against
being rear-ended. Stick around, we'll be
right back with that information.
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Hi there smart drivers, Rick with smart
drive test talking today about skills
and strategies that you can put in place
to prevent yourself being rear-ended one
of the things that we teach new drivers
for the purposes of taking a road test
is that when they stopped in traffic
behind other vehicles they have to be
able to see the tires of the vehicle in
front of them making clear contact with
the pavement as you can see here in the
image the reason that we teach them that
is that that leaves about one vehicle
length between you and the vehicle in
front of you and there are many reasons
why we do that one of the most important
reasons we do that is so that if the
vehicle in front of you breaks down or
the traffic becomes congestion or you
have to move you don't have to back up
in traffic to get around that vehicle
you can simply drive around that vehicle
that's one of the most prominent reasons
why we teach new drivers that now I
would encourage you if you've got your
license and you are driving to put this
scale back into place stay back from the
vehicle when you stop and traffic don't
drive right up to it because it also is
a measure against you being rear-ended
because if you're at the end of the
queue at the end of the line of the
traffic you can keep your eye in the
rearview mirror and be looking for the
traffic approaching from behind because
that the vehicles approaching from
behind you're not slowing down or
stopping that space in front of you is
often enough space that if you start
moving forward and tapping your brakes
to flash your brake lights or activate
four-way flashers that's going to get
the attention of the vehicle behind you
and often times that space that one
vehicle space if you move up that's
enough for that vehicle that driver
behind you to get his or her vehicle
stop before they plow into the back end
of you now if you're on the freeway and
you see somebody coming up behind you in
the mirrors and they're not slowing down
you can simply drive out and around the
vehicle and get out of the way and
you're probably not going to be
rear-ended so it's a very good technique
to continue
to keep in place after you get your
license now if you're stopped on a
freeway and I have been stopped on
freeways and highways and motorways and
interstates if there's a queue of
traffic and it is congested and you come
up stay back a fair distance i would
even three or four maybe five car
lengths stay back and activate your
four-way flashers the flashing light of
your four-way flashers draws in our
attention because our vision is
attracted to light and movement and
flashing lights on vehicle to get our
attention especially stop vehicles on
freeways where vehicles are traveling at
high speeds you need to get the
attention of the vehicles behind you and
indicate to them that you are coming to
a stop on a high-speed freeway highway
or interstate so that is one of the ways
that you can prevent yourself being
rear-ended and when you're sitting in
traffic if you're on a highway or some
other place like this awful incident in
the UK be on high alert if you're
anywhere on a freeway sitting on the
side of the road you're in a queue
you're behind stop traffic and
congestion and there isn't any vehicles
there aren't any vehicles behind you be
on high alert because you are in a
precarious situation there and
unfortunately sometimes this happens and
there's awful stories and many stories
that I've heard of crashes over the
years one of the most prominent ones
with some years ago on the 401 which is
the freeway that runs east-west through
ontario the province of ontario here in
canada there was a police officer that
had a tractor-trailer unit pulled over
on the side of the freeway and the
officer was standing up on the steps of
the truck talking to the driver of the
truck and another truck came down the
freeway somehow ended up off on the
shoulder of the road plowed into the
back of the cruiser and the back of the
truck and killed both the police officer
and the truck the driver in the truck so
any time that you're on an interstate a
free weight a motorway and you're
stopped be very afraid beyond very high
alert because you are in a dangerous
position so that's some techniques and
skills that you can put
place to prevent yourself being
rear-ended quick review of skills and
techniques that you can put in place to
prevent yourself being rear-ended we
teach new drivers to stay back one
vehicle length we stopped in traffic so
that you can see the tires of the
vehicle in front of you making clear
contact with the pavement that way
you've got enough room if you're in the
back of the queue whether you're on a
freeway or you're in town or wherever
you should always be looking in that
rearview mirror the centromere up at the
front and your two wing mirrors to make
sure that the traffic coming up behind
you is stopped now in the incident of
the lorry driver plowing into the back
of the queue if you're at the back of
the queue and you see some juggernaut
coming up behind you that's not going to
stop get on the horn get on the horn
drive around the traffic drive into the
ditch do whatever you need to do to get
your vehicle out of the path of that
vehicle because if they hit you straight
on they're going to plow you straight
forward if you get the vehicle onto a
bit of an angle or whatnot you're going
to decrease the amount of impact and you
may survive the crash whereas if you are
plowed straight into you're probably not
going to survive the crash so try and
get your vehicle off somehow anywhere
that you can reduce the head-on impact
of vehicles coming up behind you and if
you are in the queue and you see the
vehicle coming up behind you and you
know that vehicle isn't going to stop
the vehicles in front of you need to be
worn too so that everybody can move
forward and lastly just as an aside if
everybody stayed back one vehicle
lengths at the intersection with the
traffic all the traffic could move off
together where is when they are right
close together you have to sort of stop
and start to sort of move off and the
traffic doesn't move off from the latest
fastball so that's another benefit of
staying back one vehicle anchor question
for my smart drivers have you been
rear-ended what was your experience of
being rear-ended in a traffic crash then
comment down in the comment section
they're all of that helps out the new
drivers with their license learning how
to drive and be defensive and protect
themselves when driving your vehicle I'm
Rick with smart drive test thanks very
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