Car Safety Tips
Tips for Child Safety in the Driveway
The family home is usually thought of as a safe place, especially for children. Yet one of the biggest dangers to children’s safety occurs at home. On average, one child per week – usually a toddler – is run over in their own driveway in Australia. Driveway related deaths are the second most common cause of death for children under five, behind swimming pool accidents and yet, they are entirely preventable. From installing a reversing camera in your car to making access to your driveway more difficult, these are some ways to secure your driveway and protect your child against serious injury or death.
Identifying the Dangers
The Blind Space
Where accidents have occurred, the vehicle is usually moving fairly slowly. In most cases, the driver is a friend or family member. Rather than a small blind spot, there’s a large blind space behind the car that prevents drivers from seeing the young child behind, especially as young children are physically so much smaller. In the NRMA’s insurance reversing visibility index, it was demonstrated than even the best rated vehicles had blind zones of around three metres that could easily hide a child.
The Top Ten Family Cars of 2010
Safety is what a family car is all about. They are super safe cars designed especially for families, with lots of safety features, like reversing camera’s and reverse sensors, installed. But some cars are made better than others, so which one do you choose?
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The Five Safest Cars on the Road
It was once said that old and sturdy car models are the safest because they are better built and more reliable. But when you consider that the old models are lack the latest safety features that the new models coming out today have, this old cliché has to be re-examined.
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Kids and Cars — Five Safety Tips
Driving with kids in the car can be a pain, especially if your kids are young and they haven’t learnt how to behave during the ride. What’s even worse is driving without any other adult companion; at least with your wife or husband in the passenger seat you can focus on the road while they tend to the kids.
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Five Ways to Improve Your Safety When Driving
When you’re driving, you need to take a lot of precautions and have the proper knowledge in hand in order to avoid accidents. Before anyone can get a driving license, he or she must know the basic driving rules. There are also new gadgets that can be attached to your car to make it safer, such as a reversing camera.
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6 Car Safety Tips Everybody Should Know
We are continually warned by motoring authorities not to use mobile phones when driving, but it still astounds police that motorists continue to ignore the warnings. Accidents caused by drivers talking on their mobile phones are still on the rise and authorities are making suggestions that a hands-free car kit may become compulsory items in the near future.
This leads us to some car safety driving tips.
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3 Essential Safety Tips When Reversing Your Vehicle
One of the most difficult operations to execute when driving a vehicle is reversing. Every driver will recall their first lessons involving reversing and the difficulties associated with knowing which way to turn the steering wheel to get where you want to go. If you don’t have the benefit of a reversing camera we all need to freshen up our skills.
Whilst reversing is something that every driver eventually gets used to, there are some simple tricks which instructors have imparted over the years that make reversing a vehicle a little simpler. Of course, many modern vehicles are fitted with reversing cameras and parking sensors to make life even easier, but there are still some things you should know in order to safely reverse your vehicle.
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