How to drive on the highway

1. How to drive on the highway

Every year! Every year we encounter several such accidents: due to road blockage, a small car parked behind a large car waiting to be released. As a result, the large car behind hit it, and the front of the large car behind hit the rear of the large car in front! Where is the car? ! Two people, three people, four people, five people! How many people in the car mean how many lives there are! The car frame with a thickness of several millimeters becomes thinner than paper under the impact of dozens or hundreds of tons of weight! Don't be superstitious about what kind of car you are riding in, and don't think you are safe. I have seen a Hongqi car that was compressed to only one meter long after being opened. I have seen a van that was crushed into iron sheets. I have seen people trapped in the fire. Twisted figures and howls, I have seen heads of people squeezed so tightly that they are only two fingers wide.

You may ask, why didn’t the big car behind stop? Believe me, it’s not that he didn’t want to stop, he wanted to stop the car so much! But have you ever seen a truck that carries nine tons but pulls fifty tons? Have you ever seen a tanker with a nuclear load of 19 tons but an actual load of 90 tons? Have you ever seen a Big Mac with a nuclear load of 30 tons but an actual load of 130 tons? Look at the large trucks on the road. Nine and a half out of ten trucks are more or less overloaded. If they don’t overload, there will be no profit, and if they don’t overload, they will lose money! That is far from a problem that the traffic police alone can solve. In such situations, especially on downhill roads, you can't even pull a hundred cows behind these big semi-trailers!

Not mentioned here for now. We still want to advise all small car drivers who encounter traffic jams. After stopping the car, even if there is a knife outside, you must get out of the car and move to the outside of the road quickly until there are more than seven or eight large cars in the back of your car. Get back to your car! Why wait for seven or eight cars? In 2006, I had a car that hit 13 cars in a row, a record that no one in our team has been able to break. Which car do you want to be? If it doesn't work, just walk forward from the emergency parking lane. After walking for 200 to 300 meters, find an empty space to vacate the parking lane. It's cheaper to let the traffic police fine you 200 yuan than to kill you! Here, the same sentence remains: the emergency parking lane is a life passage! An escape route for you!

2. What to do when a tire blows out?

When it comes to vehicle tire blowouts, the consequences of a small car blowout, especially a front wheel blowout, when driving at high speed are far greater than a big car blowout. Although a tire blowout is unpredictable if the tire is serious, we often find a phenomenon in our accident handling: if the left front wheel blowout causes the vehicle to lose control and hit the guardrail, it will often hit the right guardrail, and vice versa. The reason is that when a vehicle has a tire blowout, due to the difference in tire diameter and friction coefficient, the vehicle's running trajectory will be biased in the direction of the tire blowout. The left front wheel with a blowout will move to the left, and the right front wheel with a blowout will move to the right, while the driver is steering. When correcting, the pointing performance is reflected slowly on a vehicle that has a flat tire. In addition, the panic caused by the flat tire often leads to over-correction, which artificially aggravates the vehicle's loss of control, causing the left front wheel to burst and hit the right side instead. Guardrails, or even hitting the left and right guardrails multiple times in a row.

The correct approach is to hold the direction tightly when the vehicle has a tire blowout. No matter which way the vehicle's front is tilted, give a fixed correction angle (related to your actual vehicle speed) and maintain it with force. At the same time, do not take any action. Emergency braking, because at this time the vehicle's braking ability is unbalanced in the longitudinal direction, keep the deceleration behavior under control and strive to maintain the original driving trajectory, and avoid sudden directional corrections.

3. Speeding

Everyone knows the dangers of speeding, whether it is local or highway, it will cause irreparable consequences. If you drive a car with a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, assuming you are 170cm tall, the physiological reaction time from when your eyes notice the situation to when your brain makes a judgment and then reflects on the brakes is about 1.7 seconds, and at this time your vehicle Already traveled 47.2M. 40 meters away!

How many helpless lives will it contain! We once checked for speeding on a road section with a speed limit of 70KM/H, and a car actually went 203KM/H. Looking at the photo, we all said that this driver will be reimbursed sooner or later. That is his life, and his life is in his hands. There is nothing others can do. .

Regarding speeding, I have only two words: one is "nine out of ten disasters", and the other is don't be superstitious about "good cars". Some people often superstitiously believe that their cars are good and their performance is good, but everyone is equal in life. We have a BMW 745, a Porsche Cayenne, and an S80. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a Japanese car or a European car. As long as there’s an accident due to speeding, you will die or be injured without any delay.

The speed limit of the highest-level expressway in our country is 120KM/H. This is the legal maximum speed written in the safety law. This is not unfounded. According to foreign data, if a car exceeds 160KM/h, In the event of a tire blowout, regardless of whether you wear a seat belt or not, the mortality rate for the driver and passengers is 100! Remember, it’s not 50, it’s not 99, it’s 100! For those drivers who like to press the accelerator to the bottom as soon as they get on the highway, pray that your tires are safe and sound.

4. Safety inspection before driving

This is still a question caused by the tire puncture problem. This is a very accidental factor. You said your car is new? We have a new car with less than 5,000 kilometers that has a flat tire. As for the model, I am not in a position to talk about it here, but I can say that it is the most common family car of a certain company that costs about 100,000 yuan. In addition to checking the tires before traveling, there are also engine oil problems, lubricating oil problems, cooling fluid problems, and even the wipers and windshield wipers must be carefully checked. We once broke down the wiper when we got off work. Oddly enough, it was the left wiper, and it happened to be the right one that day. It was raining, sleeting, and snowing, so you can imagine how we ended up traveling dozens of kilometers back home!

I can’t bear to look back. This is a highway, with nowhere to go. Fortunately, we are familiar with the road conditions. We turned on the double flashers and police lights and drove with our necks crooked and insisted on getting off the road. If we had changed Others will either suffer or be easily in danger. After returning home and checking the vehicle, it turned out that a screw was missing from the wiper connecting rod. The repair cost was less than a dime, which caused so much trouble and hidden danger!

5. Highway markings, signs and warnings

I believe that many drivers who often use the highway will find that there are warning signs and warning lights of this kind along the highway from time to time. I didn't pay much attention to these things when I didn't drive on the expressway before, but after working for the past few years, I deeply realized that every "accident-prone road section, please drive with caution", when you see similar warning signs on the road, you must Consciously reduce your speed and keep your distance, and be prepared for emergencies.

6. Try to avoid driving at night

In the current reality of our country, this is a common rule across the country: the number of large trucks driving at night is far more than that on the road during the day of. In our place, just talking about large trucks, the ratio of day to night can reach 1:5 or even higher. When patrolling at night, there is a row of white lights on the left and a row of red lights on the right, with no end in sight. This once confused us. However, the view is good during the day and the traffic volume is small. Why do so many trucks stay up day and night? So much so that we often stayed up all night to deal with the police. Later, through chatting with the driver involved, I learned that during the day, you have to load and unload goods, repair vehicles, and find people for errands. And most importantly, road administration, over-limit and traffic police are all on the road during the day, so driving at night is less troublesome! This results in nighttime being a time of high incidence of various accidents. As drivers and passengers of small cars, when driving at night, the traffic volume and density are high, and the "unpleasant" driving is secondary. The most important thing is that most of the drivers of large cars who have been busy all day are suspected of being involved in the crime. Fatigue driving, unlicensed driving, illegal driving, etc., pose greater safety risks to driving. Moreover, the seats of the big car are high, and the central isolation guardrail of the highway cannot block the string of headlights coming from the opposite direction. The driver of the big car is almost driving in a semi-dazzled state. Are you willing to be with such drivers along the way? Galloping? 7. Use flashing lights to remind when overtaking

The highway is fast and noisy. The car in front of you cannot hear your car horn at all. When overtaking, it is more useful to switch the far and near flashing lights to remind the other party. Moreover, when you find that there are two or more large trucks in the driving lane that are relatively close to each other, when overtaking, you have to be careful of the large truck behind you suddenly changing lanes to overtake. If you happen to run next to him at that time, you really have to leave it to fate. .

Believe me, those big trucks that change lanes to overtake are considered Amitabhas if half of them glance in the rear mirror before changing lanes, not to mention that you are a small car, which is not easy to be found and is faster. . Moreover, when overtaking at night, do not always use high beam. When you are two to three hundred meters away from the rear of the vehicle being overtaken, it is best to switch to low beam, so that the car in front can better judge the distance between you and him and avoid accidents. Misjudgment. Know that being able to see you more clearly to other vehicles on the road is just as important as whether you can see each other clearly.

Speaking of this, I remembered that in the city there are often motorcycles and motor vehicles that do not drive lights at night or use high beams to meet other vehicles. They think they can see the road and other cars clearly, but whether others can See them clearly? Those are selfish and inconsiderate people, and I have always despised these people.

8. Do not occupy emergency parking lanes in non-emergency situations?

Emergency parking lanes, as the name suggests, are lanes that can only be used in emergencies.

9. Protect the scene and ensure safety

The highway section under the jurisdiction of our brigade is about 170 kilometers. With the increase in personnel and in order to dispatch the police quickly (sometimes it may be possible to arrive at the scene ten minutes early) Save a life), we divided it into two accident alarm points, each with its own jurisdiction. But even so, it would take two or three hours to go around in our own jurisdiction. Sometimes we often receive accident reports like this: a simple scrape or rear-end collision occurred between the two parties. The facts are not in dispute, there are no casualties, little financial damage, and the vehicle can move. However, no matter how much we try to persuade on the phone, both parties refuse to do so. Move your car to the side of the road! We must go to the scene to "take pictures" before we move the car! Seventy or eighty kilometers! The fastest would be forty minutes an hour! Sometimes, for the sake of losing a hundred yuan, two cars would block traffic on the road, causing the road to be blocked for more than ten kilometers!

When I meet such a driver, I feel so bad about him! For your own slight benefit, you ignore the traffic police's advice and go your own way. What if your vehicle is stuck on the road and causes a secondary accident? What should you do if your vehicle gets stuck on the road, blocking the road behind and causing an accident? What is certain is that if another accident occurs, the damage to people and property will be greater than your small accident. If the parties involved in the subsequent accident sue you, although you may not be legally responsible, you will be 100% liable for compensation. responsibility!

In an accident with minor property damage on a highway, if there are no casualties, both parties have no objections to the cause, and the vehicle has the ability to move, the vehicle must be moved to the emergency parking lane. Nowadays, almost everyone If you have a mobile phone with a camera function, you can use your mobile phone to take two photos of the original scene before the train. Don’t worry, if you encounter such a “moving scene”, the highway accident traffic police will definitely not make things difficult for you!

10. After the accident

Of course, what I mentioned above is just a simple accident with small financial losses. If your vehicle is involved in a major property damage accident or even casualty accident on the highway, you must not move on the scene (except to rescue the injured). This will involve two more important things: setting up warning signs and calling the police. . If a traffic accident occurs on a highway and the vehicle cannot move, a warning sign must be set up 150 meters away from the accident scene in the direction of the vehicle, and personnel must move outside the highway guardrail.

Drive civilized and be happy.