Another Simple and Obvious Way to Reduce North Carolina Car Accidents?
How much thought have you given to avoiding North Carolina car accidents?
If you or someone you love was recently involved in an auto accident, you are probably spending quite a bit of time ruminating over what happened and what went wrong.
Here’s a counterintuitive thought for you: whether there has been an accident in your life recently or not, you are probably not thinking about the future enough!
Here’s why. The reality is that you can’t change the past – you can only impact the present and the potential future.
As this blog has discussed on many occasions, North Carolina auto accident prevention should be on the top of everyone’s list – agencies, insurance companies, businesses, and individual drivers – especially drivers who have recently been hurt or suffered damage.
We all know the standard safety messages: wear your safety belt, don’t drive DUI, don’t yap on your cell phone while behind the wheel, etc. But even those of us who do pay attention to these basic safety guidelines struggle with identifying potentially “out of the box” ideas for accident reduction/prevention.
There are some good clues out there, however, if you bother to look. For instance, accidents don’t happen at random times. There are certain times when it’s far more dangerous to drive – and certain times when it’s relatively safer to get behind the wheel. Some of the most dangerous times to drive include:
• Friday and Saturday nights
• National holidays (such as the Super Bowl, 4th of July, Labor Day weekend, Memorial Day weekend, New Year’s Eve, Halloween, etc.)
• Different roads and highways may have different “danger times” – if you drive on a particular road or highway frequently (i.e. every day), you might want to talk to local law enforcement officers about when that particular road is the most dangerous – and where along that road is the most dangerous.
In other words, there is a tremendous amount of information out there – about specific roads that can be dangerous or about times at which certain roads became dangerous. Pay attention to those statistics and then using them to guide your driving decisions.
Putting Theory into Practice
Say you do a little homework and learn that, on your road to work, you pass one curve where there have been seven accidents in the past five years. It’s a dangerous curve – due to sight line problems, road engineering, or whatever. Once you know this information, you can change your behavior accordingly. For instance, you might find a way to bypass that particular intersection. Or you might just make a note to yourself to pay extra attention whenever you come to that curve – give your driving your full attention and then some when you reach that point.
Alternatively, maybe you can make a conscious decision to avoid driving on Friday and Saturday nights, when the young drunk crowd is out on the roads. Subtle choices like these won’t necessarily save your life. But they could reduce your likelihood of getting involved in a crash, especially over the long-term.
If you need help getting compensation or justice with respect to a car crash, connect immediately with a North Carolina auto accident law firm.
More Web Resources:
The Most Dangerous Times to Drive
Are Some Roads More Dangerous Than Others?
