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Defensive Driving

Defensive driving is essential for saving lives, time, and money, requiring drivers to be aware of their surroundings and the actions of others. Key strategies include recognizing hazards, maintaining safe following distances, and avoiding distractions while driving. Drivers must also adhere to responsibilities such as vehicle maintenance, proper licensing, and understanding roadway conditions to prevent collisions.

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Defensive Driving

Defensive driving is essential for saving lives, time, and money, requiring drivers to be aware of their surroundings and the actions of others. Key strategies include recognizing hazards, maintaining safe following distances, and avoiding distractions while driving. Drivers must also adhere to responsibilities such as vehicle maintenance, proper licensing, and understanding roadway conditions to prevent collisions.

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Defensive Driving

Defensive Driving

• Defensive driving is driving to save lives, time


and money, in spite of the conditions around you
and the actions of others.
• Defensive driving is the responsibility of
everyone who operates a vehicle in our roadway
community.

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The DDC Collision
Prevention Formula:

• Recognize the hazard


– Scan ahead and around your vehicle
– Check mirrors every 3-5 seconds
– Always stay alert
– Use the “what if” strategy to keep you alert

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Understand the Defense

• Know what to do to prevent a traffic hazard from


becoming a collision
• Know the consequences of your driving choices
• Know the basic defenses of:
– Scanning in all directions
– SLOW DOWN
– Use a safe following distance

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Act Correctly – Act In Time

• Choose the safest driving maneuver to prevent a


collision
• Remember ---- Other drivers may act in time, but
they may act incorrectly.

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Preventable Collision
• A PREVENTABLE COLLISION is a collision which
the driver fails to do everything REASONABLE to
avoid the accident.

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What Are Your
Driving Behaviors?
• Do you drive the posted speed limit regardless of what the
traffic is doing and how fast it is going?
• Do you plan ahead for weather conditions and construction
hazards when planning your daily routes?
• Do you alert other drivers to your actions using your turn
signals?
• Do you wear a safety belt and require all passengers to do
the same while in a vehicle?
• Do you practice safe driving behavior by not talking on the
cell phone or texting?

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Distracted and
Impaired Driving

• What examples do you have?

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Distracted and
Impaired Driving

• Eating in the car • Reaching for other things in


• Talking on the phone the car
• Texting • Reading a map
• Putting on make-up • Cleaning the inside of the
• Shaving window
• Reading the paper • Changing clothes
• Thinking about things other
than driving

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Responsibilities of Drivers

• Register and license your vehicle


• Vehicle maintenance
• Hold an appropriate driver’s license
• Automobile insurance availability
• Refrain from driving if you have any type of disability or
impairment that would affect driving
• Wear appropriate eyewear
• Understand and follow the rules of the road
• Operate a vehicle safely
• When involved in a collision - stop at the scene and follow your
organizations reporting rules

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Conditions In Roadway

• Work zones • Trains


• Light and weather • Slow-moving vehicles
• Traffic • Pedestrians
• Blind spots of semis • Motorcycles
• Emergency vehicles • Bicyclists
• Mover over law • Animals
• School buses

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Fatal Four Driving Behaviors

• Speeding

• Right of Way

• Driving left of center

• Tailgating/following too closely

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The Three Second-Plus Rule

• For every poor condition, add 1 more second


of following distance to the baseline of 3
seconds.
• For rain or ice - add 2+ seconds

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Remember Your World
and Our Roadway
Community

• No one wants to lose someone important to them


• YOUR driving choices - including a choice to be a
defensive driver - will have lifelong consequences
for you, your loved ones and those around you!!!!

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