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Show ; Marrow highways require driver patience, ; savs U crash expert !ixorists should exercise s, szi patience while driving xjh "bottleneck" stretch-w stretch-w 3 highway that separate enons of freeway, says a . JiStrsny of Utah automo-j. automo-j. i afety eipert. t;i Di. Rudy Limpert, research ; isviiie professor of mechan-acjineering. mechan-acjineering. says drivers id resist the temptation j, i pass slower vehicles or ixrwise tike risks on nar-r nar-r highways. . 1i these situations the ring patterns of ail must be i:ttd to the driving patriot pat-riot the weakest link or the icist driver, says Lim-rt, Lim-rt, who headed the former ?oh Auto Crash Research "am. tiipert has investigated r&tdsof Utah road crash-sie crash-sie past few years and is xrlaing work on a book IE- ' . aimed at helping fix legal responsibility in highway accidents. acci-dents. Limpert believes less is accomplished by substantially lowering the speed limit on these narrow highways, than could be done by taking steps to assure an uninterrupted flow of traffic at a reasonable speed. He says drivers become particularly impatient when a free-way ends and they are forced to drive for time in two-lane traffic before rejoining rejoin-ing an interstate system. "A good driver is characterized character-ized not by how many accidents acci-dents he has avoided but by how few chances he has had to take," says Limpert. According to Limpert, the key ingredients of driving safety are discipline, knowledge know-ledge of your vehicle and its operating capabilities and developing de-veloping an accident avoi-dence avoi-dence mentality. 'Drivers should discipline themselves to avoid taking chances and to remain alert," he says. The U research professor adds that motorists also should be aware of the operating operat-ing capabilities of their cars and how they react to different differ-ent weight loads and to sudden sud-den turns and stops. Drivers should constantly remain alert to potential crash situations, and accident avoidance avoi-dance manuevers should become be-come a part of their regular driving habits. |
