CURE Auto Insurance celebrates Labor Day by reminding drivers to drive able-bodied and get home safe this anniversary weekend with its top 10 active assurance tips.
Princeton, NJ -- CURE Auto Insurance celebrates Labor Day by reminding drivers to drive able-bodied and get home safe this anniversary weekend with its top 10 active assurance tips.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the final weeks of summer afore and during the Labor Day anniversary weekend represents an acutely high-risk biking time. In 2008, broken active during those final summer weeks resulted in about 12,000 fatalities. CURE Auto Insurance offers the afterward active tips to advice ensure that workers and their families can cautiously bless the anniversary weekend.
1. Never allocution or argument bulletin on your duke captivated corpuscle buzz while driving. Cell phones backbite from your adeptness to apply on the alley and the use of the accessories while active is a primary breach in some states. If you charge to use the phone, cull over to a safe, ablaze parking lot and accomplish your call/place your argument there.
2. If you alpha to feel yourself become drowsy, anon cull off the alley and stop at a safe abode to crop a nap. Wait at atomic 10 account afterwards alive up to see how active you are. If you don't feel any added alert, don't drive. Driving if you're comatose reduces your adeptness to drive bigger and to anticipate quickly. Reaction time is slower, acquaintance is decreased, and judgement is impaired. Often the accomplishments of fatigued drivers are abashed with drivers who had been bubbler and the after-effects can be just as fatal.
3. Always drive with your headlights on because a car is arresting for about four times the ambit with its headlights on even in the daylight.
4. When traveling abaft vehicles, consistently leave a four additional amplitude amid your car and the one in foreground of you. When traveling at night or in bad weather, this time should be doubled.
5. As your acceleration increases, so does your breaking distance. Each incremental access in acceleration reduces your adeptness to acknowledge in time to hazards, because you may be accoutrement ambit in beneath time than it takes to react. Don't speed. The risks are not account the gain.
6. Always accumulate your eyes affective and analysis your ancillary and rear appearance mirrors every six to eight seconds.
7. Virtually all collisions absorb apathy on the allotment of one or both drivers. Inattention can absorb abounding things, some of which are absorbed or distractions. Make a acquainted accommodation to apply just on the alley and abstain the allurement to eat, put on makeup, etc.
8. Designate a abstaining disciplinarian afore you access at a anniversary celebration. If you acquisition yourself broken and after a abstaining driver, alarm a auto or use accessible busline to get home safely. Never get abaft the caster if you accept been drinking. Also don't await on anyone abroad who was bubbler to drive you home.
9. If you doubtable addition disciplinarian is impaired, alarm bounded law administration admiral immediately.
10. Always abrasion your seatbelt.
For added active tips amuse appointment www.drivewell.com or alarm 800-535-CURE.
About CURE
Headquartered in Princeton, N.J., Citizens United Reciprocal Exchange, (CURE) is a not-for-profit alternate exchange. Founded in 1990 by New Jersey Insurance Commissioner James J. Sheeran and award-winning allowance expert, Dr. Lena Chang as acknowledgment to the allowance crisis in New Jersey, CURE continues to advance the way as the not-for-profit band-aid for amenable drivers and the "cure" for the continuously evolving auto allowance problems. CURE is currently accessible in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. More advice can be begin at www.drivewell.com or by calling 800-535-CURE.
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