How to avoid common crash situations

How to avoid common crash situations


Did you know that most new drivers only observe what is happening one vehicle length in front of them?

We illustrate ten common crash situations and provide the commentary that allows the student to understand what potential crashes could occur and what actions to take to avoid them.

Once your students know where and how crashes happen, they are better able to avoid them.





Each page shows the main crash scenario accompanied by less common examples for that category. Your students learn how to avoid:

 

1

same-direction crashes in front and from the sides
 

2

same-direction crashes while stopping or stopped
 

3

adjacent-direction crashes
 

4

opposing-direction crashes
 

5

pulling-out crashes
 

6

right-curve crashes
 

7

left-curve crashes
 

8

overtaking crashes
 

9

crashes on straight roads
 

10

pedestrian crashes

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Avoiding same-direction crashes in front and from the sides

 

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Avoiding same-direction crashes while stopping or stopped

 

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Avoiding adjacent-direction crashes

         

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Avoiding opposing-direction crashes

 

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Avoiding pulling-out crashes

 

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Avoiding right-curve crashes

         

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Avoiding left-curve crashes

 

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Avoiding overtaking crashes

 

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Avoiding crashes on straight roads

         

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Avoiding pedestiran crashes

       

   


Teach crash-free driving using printed copies on the side of the road or in the classroom. You can show one scenario - adjacent direction is a good one - and present a sequence of lessons on each step in the crashfree model. For teaching driver commentaries. If you can describe each part of the crash-free model, just as the scenarios do, as you drive you will be giving a rather good commentary. Your students can practise this from the passenger_s seat. Choose a scenario and let them study it. Drive until you find a real situation that is similar to the RUM scenario. Have them describe each step of the model as they approach the hazard. It will be hard work at first. Start them talking well before the hazard and suggest they keep their sentences short. If they can provide a commentary for each crash scenario, they are part way to learning crash-free driving. This will also demonstrate that most, if not all crashes can be avoided by applying the crash-free driving method. Provide a student with feedback after they have taken a risk. Select the crash scenario that applies to the risk they took. Then ask them to tell you what they actually did (not just what they did not do) at each step of the model. This will reveal the gap in their performance. You both then have to work out the reasons for the gap and find a solution. As the basis for remedial training. Select the crash scenario that applies to the crash the driver was involved in. Then ask them to tell you what they actually did. As with risk feedback, this will reveal the difference between what they did do and what they should have done. You then have a good starting point for the remedial training. (Assuming training is the appropriate solution.) As update information. After an incident has occurred, you may print and distribute the relevant crash scenario. Accompany it with a photograph of the actual crash, information about it, and a reminder of how to avoid such crashes. As a discussion tool. Use in a similar way to update information, but this time use it in the setting of a group discussion.
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You can use the resource in several ways...

In this all-colour
booklet you learn how to do these things:

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Teach crash-free driving using printed copies on the side of the road or in the classroom.

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Teach driver commentaries. If you can describe each part of the crash-free model, just as the scenarios do, as you drive you will be giving a rather good commentary. Your students can practise this from the passenger's seat.

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Provide a student with feedback after they have taken a risk. Select the crash scenario that applies to the risk they took. Then ask them to tell you what they actually did.

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Use a scenario as the basis for remedial training. Select the crash scenario that applies to the crash the driver was involved in. Then ask them to tell you what they actually did.

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Use a scenario as update information. After an incident has occurred, you may print and distribute the relevant crash scenario.

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Use a scenario as a discussion tool. Use in a similar way to update information, but this time use it in the setting of a group discussio

 


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