Hundreds of people die on the roads every day, tens of thousands are injured. It usually happens because of someone's stupidity. Statistics say that 95% of accidents are due to human errors, mostly drivers. Sometimes we make blunders - everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes we lose focus. Sometimes we take unacceptable risks.
For most drivers, the challenge «learn to drive a car» ends with the successful passing of the final exams in a driving school; most of these drivers are sure that skill will come by itself, with «experience».
Those who hope that mastery will come with time usually produce many mistakes and accidents, the result can be seen daily on our roads and in the trauma departments of hospitals.
The keys to safe driving are:
- concentration,
- constant all-round monitoring of the situation,
- foresight and traffic planning.
Drivers with safe driving skills control the situation and risk when driving by choosing a safe speed and distance. They avoid mistakes and accidents, even if other drivers around them create emergencies.
If good driving skills are added to this, accidents will be calculated and reduced to zero.
Concentration means applying maximum attention to the traffic situation, excluding all extraneous stimuli. Driving usually requires more attention than other activities. All attention is on the road.
All-round control of the situation means not only empty staring at passing trees, but also looking for information that could be useful for determining the traffic situation.
forethought implies answers to the questions what happened, what can logically happen and what can happen without any logic.
Planning - a link between obtaining information and making an appropriate decision. For most drivers, planning is the missing link.
If you want to drive safely, contact car clubs and driving schools that offer additional safe driving training.