6 General Tips for Driving Safety This Winter (Part 2)

6 General Tips for Driving Safety This Winter (Part 2)

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Posted January 10, 2014 by admin


Keeping a winter safety kit in your car is one essential winter driving safety tip that can keep you and your family safe this winter season.
Keeping a winter safety kit in your car is one essential winter driving safety tip that can keep you and your family safe this winter season.

Keeping a winter safety kit in your car is one essential winter driving safety tip that can keep you and your family safe this winter season.

Piggybacking 6 General Tips for Driving Safety This Winter (Part 1), here are two more winter driving safety tips. It’s important to point out that following these tips can be critical to avoiding car accidents in the winter and, in turn, saving lives.

  • Winter Driving Safety Tip 3: Keep a safety kit in your car – During the winter, it’s common that cars get stuck in the snow, ice and snow piles up on windshields and other winter conditions affect how vehicles run. Keeping a winter safety kit in the trunk of your car can be vital to helping you get your car out of snow, preparing it to drive during winter weather and even potentially getting your car running again (if, for example, you keep jumper cables in your winter driving safety kit and your vehicle’s battery dies).While you can buy prepackaged winter driving safety kits at auto parts stores, you can also easily assemble your own. Regardless of whether you make or buy these kits, make sure that you keep one in every vehicle your family drives (so you don’t have to or forget to move it from car to car before each trip).
  • Winter Driving Safety Tip 4: Obey all traffic laws – While it’s always advisable to obey all traffic laws in order to avoid car accidents, avoid getting tickets, etc., it’s especially important to do so during the winter when adverse weather conditions can impair your (or other drivers’ abilities) to drive safely. This means that, while you should stop at red lights, obey speed limits and generally obey all traffic signage, you should also not drink and drive and put your cellphone down when driving to minimize potential driving distractions.

For the final two winter driving safety tips, look for our upcoming Part 3 of this blog. Mount Vernon Car Accident Lawyers At the law firm of Hassakis & Hassakis, P.C., our experienced Mount Vernon car accident personal injury lawyers have been providing client-centered representation to our Southern Illinois clients since 1950. Our trusted attorneys focus on our clients’ needs, we are passionate about our clients, and we do everything we can to help them get the maximum possible compensation for their losses and injuries so they can focus on recovery and moving on with their life. We take pride in tailoring our legal representation to specifically meet our clients’ needs and in expertly guiding them through each stage of the complex the legal process. While our attorneys are aggressive and effective litigators both inside and outside of the courtroom, we are also counselors that can provide our clients with helpful legal advice regarding their best options. If you have been injured in a car accident, or if you have lost a loved one in any type of traffic accident, contact us by calling (888) 896-9381 or by emailing us using the form at the upper right-hand side of the page. We can provide you with a free, thorough assessment of your case, along with professional advice regarding the best manner in which to move forward.

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