What should I pay attention to when I get on the expressway?

Life-saving advice from high-speed traffic police! Always run high-speed must see!

Note: This post was written by a very responsible traffic policeman.

The article is a bit long. It doesn't matter whether you stick it or not. It's important to read the post, which may really save a life.

Try not to drive or take a bus at high speed, especially on long-distance buses (there are too many accidents).

For yourself, for elderly parents and young children, please read this article patiently.

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1. Stop, stop or stop!

the most important thing I want to say is at the front. What are you most afraid of when driving on the expressway? Stop the car! In the high-speed traffic, no matter what causes the road to be blocked and stop, the most terrible thing may happen. Here, I want to focus on the car. In this case, when the driver of the car finds that the road ahead is blocked, he must immediately look in the rearview mirror to see if there is a big truck following you. If there is, he must slow down in advance and turn on the double flashing lights to remind the car to pay attention to it, so as to give the big car behind him enough distance and time to slow down. If the big car behind him honks his horn or keeps flashing lights at you, believe me, he must be unable to stop the car, and you must speed up drilling into the emergency parking lane! Even if it scratches your car. Every year! Every year, we encounter several such accidents: because of the traffic jam, the car stopped behind the big car and waited for release. As a result, the big car behind it collided, and the front of the big car behind it collided with the rear of the big car in front! Where is the car? ! Two, three, four, five! A few people in the car are just a few lives! A few millimeters thick car frame is thinner than paper under the impact of dozens or hundreds of tons of weight! Don't be superstitious about what car you are riding, and don't think you are safe. I have seen a red-flag car that is only one meter long after being pulled open and compressed. I have seen a van that has been pressed into iron. I have seen the distorted figure and howling of people trapped in the fire. I have seen the head of people who are only two fingers wide. You may ask, why doesn't the big car behind stop? Believe me, it's not that he doesn't want to stop, he wants to stop the car too much! But have you ever seen a truck with a nuclear load of nine tons but a pull of fifty tons? Have you ever seen a tanker with a nuclear load of 19 tons but a real load of 9 tons? Have you ever seen a Big Mac with a nuclear load of 3 tons but a real load of 13 tons? The traffic police have long been forbidden to punish the unloading of overloaded vehicles. Look at the big trucks on the road. Nine and a half of the ten vehicles are more or less overloaded. If they don't exceed, there will be no profit. If they don't exceed, they will lose money! That's far from the problem that the traffic police can solve alone. When it comes to situations, especially downhill roads, you can't stop these big semi-trailers by tying a hundred cows behind them! Let's not mention it here. It is still necessary to advise all car drivers who are stuck in traffic jams to leave the car and quickly move out of the road after stopping, even if there is a knife outside, until there are more than seven or eight big cars in the back of your car before returning to your car! Why wait for seven or eight cars? In 26, I had a record of a car hitting thirteen cars in a row. No one in our brigade can break it. Which car would you like to be? If you really can't do it, go ahead from the emergency parking lane. After walking for 2 to 3 meters, find a space to make room for the parking lane. I would rather let the traffic police fine you 2 yuan, which is cheaper than life! Here, it's the same sentence: the emergency parking lane is a life passage! An escape route for you!

second, the handling of tire blowout

just now, the vehicle tire blowout was mentioned. When driving at high speed, the consequences caused by tire blowout of small cars, especially front wheels, are far more serious than those caused by tire blowout of big cars. Although tire blowout is unpredictable, we often find an interesting phenomenon in our accident handling: if the left front wheel tire blowout causes the vehicle to run out of control and hit the guardrail, it often hits the right guardrail, and vice versa. The reason is that when a vehicle has a flat tire, due to the different tire diameter and friction coefficient, the running track of the vehicle will be biased towards the direction of the flat tire, with the left front wheel biased to the left and the right front wheel biased to the right. When the driver corrects the direction, the pointing performance is slow in the vehicle with a flat tire. In addition, the panic caused by the flat tire often leads to over-correction, which artificially intensifies the out-of-control of the vehicle, causing the left front wheel to explode and hit the right guardrail, even hitting the left and right guardrails several times in succession. The correct way is to grasp the direction first when the vehicle has a flat tire, no matter where the front of the car is biased, give a fixed correction angle (related to your actual speed) and keep it hard, and don't take emergency braking at the same time, because the braking ability of the vehicle is unbalanced on the vertical line at this time, let the deceleration behavior be controlled and try to keep the original driving track, and avoid emergency braking to correct it.

Third, speeding

The harm of speeding is known to all, whether it is local or high-speed, it will cause irreparable consequences. If you drive a car with a speed of 1KM/h, assuming that you are 17CM tall, the physiological reaction time from your eyes to your brain to make a judgment, and then reflected in the braking is about 1.7S, and at this time your vehicle has already moved forward 47.2M m. 4 meters away! How many helpless lives will it contain! We used to check the speed limit at 7KM/H (we only recorded it at 11 km), and a car actually ran 23 km/h. Looking at the photos, we all said that the driver would have to submit an expense account sooner or later. It was his life, and his life was in his hands, and there was nothing others could do. I only have two words about speeding: one is "ten disasters and nine quick accidents", and the other is not to be superstitious about "good cars". Some people often believe that their cars are good and their performance is good, but everyone is equal in front of life. We have a BMW 745, a Porsche Cayenne and S8 in our hands. No matter what happens to our European cars, as long as they are speeding, they will die and get hurt, and there is no delay. The speed limit of the highest grade expressway in China is 12KM/H, which is the legal maximum speed written in the safety law. This is not unfounded. According to foreign data, if a car with a speed of more than 16KM/h has a puncture accident, whether you wear a seat belt or not, the death rate of drivers and passengers is 1%! Remember, it's not 5% or 99%, it's 1%! Tell those drivers who like to step on the accelerator as soon as they get on the highway, and pray that your tires are safe.

Fourth, the safety inspection before driving

It's still a problem caused by a flat tire. This is a very accidental factor. You said you were a new car? We have a new car with a flat tire less than 5, kilometers in hand. As for the model, I can't talk about it here, but it can be revealed that it is the most common family car of about 1, yuan in the company. In addition to checking the tires before going out, there are also problems with engine oil, lubricating oil and cooling fluid, and even the wiper and glass water should be carefully checked. We once broke the wiper when we got off work, but it happened that it was raining, and it happened to be sleet that day. It is conceivable how we got home after dozens of kilometers! I can't bear to look back, this is an expressway, and there is no place in the middle of the village. Fortunately, we are police cars and are familiar with the road conditions. We twisted our necks and drove off the road with double flashes and warning lights. If we changed people, we would either suffer or be in danger. After returning home, I checked the vehicle. It turned out that the wiper connecting rod had dropped a screw, and the maintenance cost of less than a dime caused much trouble and hidden trouble!

5. markings, signs and warnings of expressways

I believe that many drivers and friends who often get on the expressway will find warning signs and warning lights from time to time along the expressway. I didn't pay attention to these things when I didn't work on the expressway before, but I was deeply impressed after working for several years. Then, every "accident-prone road section, please drive carefully", when you see similar warning signs on the road, you must consciously slow down and keep the distance between cars. At the same time, be prepared for emergencies.

6. Try to avoid driving at night

In the current reality of our country, it is a universal law in the whole country: the number of large trucks driving at night is far more than that running on the road during the day. In our place, when it comes to big trucks, the ratio of day to night can reach 1: 5 or even higher. When patrolling at night, there are white lights on the left and red lights on the right, and there is no end in sight on one side. This once puzzled us. During the day, the vision is good and the traffic volume is small. Why do so many trucks go out at night? So that we often stay up all night for the police. Later, I learned through chatting with the driver that I have to load and unload goods, repair vehicles and find people during the day, and the most important thing is that road administration, over-limit and traffic police are on the road during the day, and driving at night is less troublesome! This leads to the high incidence of various accidents at night. As the drivers and passengers of small cars, driving at night has a large flow and high density, and it is second that they are "unhappy" when running. What is important is that most of the cart drivers who have been busy all day are suspected of fatigue driving, more drivers with different licenses, illegal driving and so on, which will cause greater safety hazards to driving. Moreover, the seat of the cart is high, and the isolation of the highway can't stop a series of lights coming from the opposite side. The driver of the cart is almost driving in a semi-dazzling state. Would you like to ride with such drivers along the way?

Seven, use flashing lights to remind you when overtaking

The expressway is fast and noisy, and your car horn can't be heard at all. When overtaking, it is more useful to switch the far and near flashing lights to remind the other side; Moreover, when you find that there are more than two large trucks in the lane, the distance between the front and rear is relatively close. When overtaking, you should be careful that the big truck behind you suddenly changes lanes to overtake. If you happen to run next to him at that time, it's really resigned to fate. Believe me, half of the big trucks that change lanes to overtake can look at Amitabha in the rearview mirror before changing lanes, not to mention that you are a small car, which is not easy to be found and has a faster speed. Moreover, when overtaking at night, don't always use the high beam. When you are two or three hundred meters away from the rear of the overtaken vehicle, you'd better cut it into the low beam, so that the preceding vehicle can better judge the distance between you and him and won't misjudge it. You know, it's equally important for other vehicles to see you more clearly on the road, as well as whether you can see each other clearly. Speaking of which, I remember that there are often motorcycles and motor vehicles in the city that don't turn on the lights at night or pass by with high beams. They think they can see the road and other cars clearly, but can others see them clearly? Those are selfish and inconsiderate people, and I have always despised them.

8. Don't occupy the emergency parking lane unless it is an emergency. An emergency parking lane, as its name implies, is a lane that can only be used in an emergency.

IX. Protect the site? Keep it safe!

The expressway section under the jurisdiction of our brigade is about 17 kilometers. In the past, accidents were always three shifts at one point. Later, with the increase of personnel and in order to get out of the police quickly (sometimes ten minutes early at the scene may save a life), we were divided into two accident police stations, each with a section under its jurisdiction, but that's it. It takes two or three hours to walk around our jurisdiction. Sometimes I often get an accident alarm: there is a simple scraping or rear-end collision between the two sides, the facts are indisputable, there are no casualties, the financial loss is not big, and the vehicle can move, but no matter how we persuade on the phone, the two parties just refuse to move the car to the side of the road! We must go to the scene to "take pictures" before we are willing to move! Seventy or eighty kilometers! It takes forty minutes an hour at the earliest! Sometimes, for the loss of a hundred dollars, two cars cross the road and block the road for more than ten kilometers! When I meet such a driver, I beat his heart! For your own little interests, you go your own way without listening to the advice of the traffic police. What if your vehicle stays on the road and causes a second accident? What if your vehicle is stuck on the road, causing the back to block the road and causing an accident? What is certain is that if there is another accident, the loss of personnel and property will be greater than your minor accident. At that time, if the parties involved in the accident sue you, you may not have to bear legal responsibility, but you will be 1% liable for compensation!

if there are no casualties, the two sides have no objection to the cause and the vehicle has mobility, it is necessary to move the vehicle to the emergency parking lane. Nowadays, almost all people have mobile phones with camera function, so they can take two photos of the original scene with their mobile phones before moving the train. Of course, it is best to communicate with the police on duty on the phone. Don't worry, the traffic police of high-speed accidents will not be difficult for you when they encounter such a "moving scene".

X. After the accident

Of course, what I mentioned above is just a simple small financial loss accident. If your vehicle has a big property damage accident or even a casualty accident on the expressway, you must not move the scene (except to rescue the wounded). At this time, two more important things are involved: setting warning signs and calling the police. In case of a traffic accident on the expressway, if the vehicle cannot move, a warning sign must be set 15 meters away from the direction of the incoming vehicle at the scene of the accident, and the personnel should be transferred outside the highway guardrail. Remember: it must be 15 meters away. If a second accident occurs because the warning sign you set can't reach this distance, then our accident police will definitely give you the responsibility in the second accident, at least it is secondary or even equal! Unfortunately, based on my practice on the expressway in recent years, none of the parties will "be willing" to set the warning signs in place, really! None of them! I am impressed that I can set up a sign 5 meters behind the car! I still remember that at midnight last summer, an old comrade on the team and I were patrolling our way back to work, and we found a traffic accident just happened in the opposite half of the downhill lane. Four or five parties of two large trucks fell or lay on the road behind the accident site as if nothing had happened, which scared us to get people out of the guardrail. It was only three or five minutes before and after, and another big truck drove past the road where people were lying just now and hit me three or four meters away. At that time, it was really false that the leg was not soft. If we didn't meet on the road, but only appeared after receiving an alarm call from the party concerned, then there would be no one left behind the car! Of course, if your vehicle doesn't have a triangle warning sign or a cone bucket, you can also borrow a colorful travel bag or oil bucket or even branches on the roadside, but don't move stones! Then the nature has changed! Speaking of calling the police, there are often people who call their wives and children first, friends second and insurance company third after an accident. When they think of calling the police, it's been an hour since the accident happened! If there is a second accident because of this, I'm sorry, but you will also bear the legal responsibility for the second accident! After an accident, three things are indispensable: setting warning signs, moving people off the road, and giving an alarm in time. Any irregularity in any link will aggravate the consequences of the accident or directly lead to the occurrence of a second accident, and the parties concerned will bear corresponding legal responsibilities. Don't worry, the insurance company's alarm time is limited to 48 hours, even if you report it the next day, why do you have to avoid the important at the dangerous scene?

Xi. Don't throw waste on the expressway and pedestrians don't take the expressway

These two items complement each other. Why don't you understand? Every day, there are poor villagers outside the road who pick up empty beverage bottles on the road, and they can't catch up with them. If you drive him down from one end and turn around, he will go on the road from the other, which directly leads to a consequence: every year, our brigade has three or five cases of nameless corpses, saying that they are nameless corpses because there are no accident vehicles at the scene, and some big trucks don't know how to scratch or hit pedestrians at night. Sometimes there are only mutilated crushed and squashed corpses at the scene, and men and women can't tell them apart. There are several cases of collision and disability every year, and the reason is that you threw it out of the window.