Quick Tips
Guard your life with a SMILEBelow are five quick tips to help you avoid auto accidents, developed by the experts at Collision Guard.
Scan ahead: Recognizing risk may be the most important part of safety.
Maintain your lane: 58% of crash fatalities are related to lane departures.
Increase your distance: 27% of drivers admitted tailgating unnecessarily.
Lower your speed: 31% of all fatal car crashes involved speeding.
Eliminate distraction: 500,000 are injured in distraction-related crashes every year.
Careless driving
A person operating a motor vehicle is guilty of careless driving if...
The driver commits two or more moving traffic violations within a single continuous period of driving.
The driver commits a moving traffic violation while being distracted by one or more activities taking place within the vehicle that are not related to the operation of the motor vehicle.
Action Item
Try driving for one week without committing a single traffic violation.
Write down your worst habit and work on correcting it.
Quick safety tips for parents of teens
Become your teen’s driving role model
Always wear your seat belt
Limit trips without a purpose
Establish a curfew
No cell phones or distractions
Follow your state’s GDL Law
Supervise practice driving
Choose a safe vehicle
Fill out a teen safe-driving contract
Have your teen participate in a Collision Guard awareness and prevention program
