Simple Tips for Safer Trips

In fact, sport-utility vehicles do not have the highest rollover rate. Rate-wise, what rolls over more often? Try two-door, high-performance sports cars, those with the lowest centers of gravity and highest handling capabilities. Do you think it might, just might, have something to do with the ways those cars are sometimes driven?


The evidence makes rollover crashes a driver error thing, not a vehicle thing.

Your Physical Condition
The problem with telling people not to drive when they're drowsy or drunk is that, when they're drowsy or drunk, they're not paying attention to you telling them not to drive when they're drowsy or drunk. Still, we will all ask you one more time: Just don't do it, OK?

Pedestrians
In a crash between a car and a pedestrian a pedestrian loses. Talk to police officers who investigate such things and you will find a near-universal conviction that in those events it is usually the pedestrian who is at fault. Even if you're in a marked crosswalk, you're still on a road that was most definitely designed and built for cars. Just because you have a legal right-of-way in a crosswalk does not mean you should expect all drivers of all vehicles to see you and take the appropriate action of stopping in time. It may be the driver's fault for hitting you, but you'll be the one staring at the ceiling of a hospital room—if you're still able.


Parts of this may have seemed a little hard-edged, but our only thought was this: When considering the dangers of driving, we really would like to try and keep people from being hurt or worse. Drive safe, take care—and our very best, sincere wishes that you get there in one piece.