In large cities, the traffic must join with super cars, super-weight is quite rare, but the long trips, surely inevitable situations. So what's your experience?
Vehicle accidents involving the container makes a family of 5 people killed recently made a lot of traffic exchanges want to have more experience in order to ensure maximum safety and loved her . The following share your experience Read Duong Quang Long (Nghia Do - Ha Noi) may be useful information for many people:
Keeping distance
- When on the road, trying to avoid approaching too close to such vehicles. In case required behind, try to the driver can easily see your car from the two side mirrors.
- Upon detection of large vehicle approached his car, please give way as soon as possible! However, when to give way, make it clear intention of shutting down the side indicator lights turn right by avoiding parallel with these vehicles.
- When the red lights stop waiting at the road crossings, trying to avoid parking behind large vehicles. If not avoided, keep greater distance than other vehicles. This not only gives you better visibility, avoid the uncertainties ahead drift car, or do not own rear leaned forward speed (especially in the case of running uphill or downhill).
- Avoid parallel with oversized vehicles overloaded, especially when cornering, sharp turn. Oversized vehicles, overloading when cornering usually need more space than others, because the feature size. So to avoid the road to prevent it from being "robbed lane" at the top or rear of the car containers, trailers cunning in his car.
If you must pass, please pass definitive!
- In the case of vehicles required to pass the containers, trailers ..., first you need to have prepared in order to speed overtaking: Yes opposite vehicles not? Space vehicles pass forward enough to ensure your vehicle ahead of time that the driver in front did not hit driver won unexpected way? If the front is the intersection, the branch passages are better off not to pass, because you will not know what happens when visibility is limited in time are overtaking the containers, trailers ... Quan more important, calmly handle the situation, do not try to pass the overtaken vehicle is not ready to give way.
- When overtaking, you need to attract the attention of the driver in front of the headlights, horn, and remember to use turn signal lights for overtaking; this helps to drive the car forward knowing you're in any position to take the approach security situation for both.
- The use of the gearbox properly will help you shorten imminent danger when overtaking oversized. With manual transmission, the more simple, even with an automatic transmission, you should be familiar with Over Drive button (do not give up all numbers) or M - or M3 for help for more traction.
- Also, if estimates of container vehicles, trailers go ahead near the maximum speed allowed (by law the regulations from 5-10km / h), do not even think about overtaking, because if pass, be sure you will violate traffic laws and not always safe for you.
- If you want to pass two cars in containers or trailers, please consider carefully, because this case potentially huge traffic accident. Where indeed be reached, be vigilant and assess the situation (speed, space ...) carefully.
I wish you a safe drive!