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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday December 6, 2006 - 31 Safe Driving Week - December 1 - 7 - Keep safe on the road! With the holiday season fast approaching, there is much celebration and festivities headed our way. You cannot always choose the date and place of your event and if the weather is not co-operating, are you ready for winter driving? Winter driving demands that all drivers adjust their driving style and concentration to the variable weather conditions. Transport Canada reports the months of November and December produce the highest casualty collisions resulting in injuries and fatalities then drops in the January to April months. With Canada's annual Safe Driving week taking place December 1-7, lets drive safety home this holiday season. Young Drivers of Canada offers the following defensive driving tips: ·Driver Fatigue - Driving when you are tired is very dangerous and reduces your ability to drive effectively. If you are traveling a long distance to or from your holiday event, stop at least every 2 hours to take a break. ·Essential Items for your Car- Include a long handled scraper and snowbrush, windshield washer fluid, booster cables, reflective cones, a flashlight, first aid kit, blanket and kitty litter for traction on ice when spread around the wheels. ·Tires - Snow tires on all four wheels will provide better traction and control in a winter emergency when those extra few metres of stopping distance are needed. Check tire pressure once a month, it will vary with the temperature. · Look Well Ahead - Look ahead a minimum of 12-15 seconds in snowy conditions to read traffic and signal lights ahead. Change lanes early, smoothly and keep moving. · Mirror Usage - Since 90 per cent of the information you need to drive safely comes through your eyes, you need effective seeing habits. Check your mirrors every five to eight seconds so that you can see a rear end collision taking shape behind you. Ask yourself - Do you leave space in front of you when you stop at an intersection so that you can pull forward out of trouble? Have you got an escape route planned if you need it? · Following Distance - Rear-crash collisions are the leading cause of injury in Canada. Whiplash injuries often occur in crashes of speeds less than 17km/hr. Braking early and gradually will control traffic behind to do the same. Leave two car lengths of room in front when slowing to a stop, monitoring your mirrors, until it's safe behind. Then move up to one car length when stopped. · Contending with Black Ice - Bridges, overpasses and elevated freeway ramps ice up first. Clear pavement hidden from the sun can suddenly start to get icy. Slowing down is the best defense against winter's black ice. · Maintaining Control - Remember two things if you start to lose control: shift into neutral (or put in the clutch if you have a standard transmission), and take your foot off the gas. Then look and steer as gently as possible in the direction you want to go. ·Emergency ABS Braking - If your vehicle has ABS, first, step on the brake pedal as fast and as hard as you can. Do not pump the brakes. Maintain hard and continuous pressure to allow the ABS computer do the work. Feeling a pulsing in the brake pedal is normal. Keep the pressure on, look for an escape route and steer toward it. ·Threshold Braking (no ABS) - For Auto EVERYTHING threshold braking, the driver should apply the brakes hard but not quite hard enough to lock the wheels in order to steer and maintain control. 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