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It’s unlikely that you think about being involved in an accident before you enter your car. However, there is a small risk of an accident each time a driver takes to the road in California. When accidents occur, drivers must take measures to protect themselves.
When drivers in California have to brake hard, this means they are either acting recklessly or reacting to another driver who was being reckless. In either case, hard braking is often linked to car accidents. The auto insurer Allstate has looked at the rate of both car collisions and hard-braking events in the 200 most populous cities in the U.S., and it has found a clear link between the two.
When people in California think about dangerous roads for driving, they may think of busy city streets. However, it is sometimes more dangerous to drive in rural areas for a number of reasons.
Drivers in California and throughout the country likely understand how easy it can be to get angry while behind the wheel. While many people have strategies to keep their own stress levels to a minimum, they can’t control another person’s emotions. Therefore, it is important to know what to do in the event that a person is confronted by a driver who seems stressed or upset.
You have long heard the warnings about texting while driving in California and should be conditioned to avoid that by now. What you may not realize is that operating your car’s infotainment system, like using Apple CarPlay, is could be more dangerous than texting behind the wheel. Studies show that operating this system behind the wheel may slow your reaction times even more than the use of marijuana.
Every year in California and across the U.S., there is a rise in fatal car crashes during the first week of spring daylight saving time. This was the conclusion of a study published in Current Biology in March 2020. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder analyzed crash data from 1996 to 2017 and were able to measure the increase. It came to 6%, or 28 fatal crashes annually that, researchers argue, could have been prevented if there were no DST.
