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  • Can You Operate a Car & Take a Seizure Medicine?

    If you suffer from seizures, you may be concerned about whether you can still drive. Depending on certain laws in your state, you can be allowed to drive again.

  • What Affects a Breathalyzer Test?

    Breathalyzer tests are given by most law enforcement agencies to test drivers suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol. The accuracy of the results has sometimes been disputed in court...

  • Effects of Lack of Sleep on Driving

    Driving while drunk may be unthinkable to you, but you may not realize the ramifications of driving while drowsy. This phenomenon is so common (and dangerous) that the accidents caused by sleepy...

  • How to Make a Winter Survival Kit for Your Car

    When the snow starts falling, it is time to get yourself ready for winter. One of the most important things to have a winter survival kit for your car. A winter survival kit can help you when you...

  • How to Solve the Problem of Teens & Cell Phone Driving

    Learning to drive and being a young driver are complicated responsibilities. While teens have faster reaction times due to their youth, the potential for distraction among teenage drivers is...

  • Why Are Stop Signs Red?

    The use of red for stop signs goes all the way to mid-1800s London, but the use of red in general to mean danger has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks. While no clear, confirmation...

  • How to Prevent Cell Phone Related Car Accidents

    Approximately 6,000 people die each year in car accidents that are caused from distracted drivers. Approximately 5,000 more are seriously injured. This number is focused heavily in the under 20...

  • Why Do People Drink & Drive?

    According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), in 2002, people in the United States drove a total of 159 million times while under the influence of alcohol. Even though MADD further calculated...

  • Who Invented Goggles?

    The Eskimos are credited with inventing goggles, carving them out of caribou antler, wood or shell to protect them from snow blindness. They were held to the head with a string made out of caribou...

  • Teenage Drinking & Driving Effects

    Teenagers can be some of the most dangerous drivers on the road. With a newly laminated license in hand and a feeling of invincibility, they take off down the road at 60 miles per hour. What if...

  • Seatbelt Safety Facts

    The 2009 seat belt safety facts reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) state that 84 percent of drivers used seat belts. This is a 1 percent increase over the...

  • Child Seat Belt Rules

    Although there are child seat belt rules in all 50 states, the rules vary significantly from state to state. It is up to the parent or driver to know and obey the child seat belt laws of the state...

  • Seat Belt Injuries

    Many accident injuries are caused by the passenger's seat belt. Improper fastening of the seat belt or seat belt malfunction are common factors behind these injuries. The type of seat belt injury...

  • Vehicle Seat Belt Laws

    The first seat belt law was enacted in the 1980s in New York. Since that time, the vast majority of states have enacted laws requiring at least some level of seat belt use. As a result of these...

  • Importance of Wearing a Seatbelt

    Neglecting to wear a seatbelt is extremely unsafe. When an accident happens, the vehicle stops while the occupant keeps going. Properly fastened seatbelts reduce the risk of injury and save many...

  • Shoulder Injury Caused by Seatbelts

    Seatbelt shoulder injuries, while not totally preventable, are all too common in vehicle accidents. When seatbelts are worn too loosely, incorrectly or not at all, a number of unhappy but somewhat...

  • Who Qualifies for Handicap Parking Sticker?

    A handicap parking sticker is a tool that disabled individuals can use to park closer to entrances of stores, physician's offices and other places of business. The handicap parking sticker is...

  • How to Be Aware of the Top Causes of Unintentional Deaths

    Life can change in a second. Becoming distracted, engaging in risky behavior, or neglecting safety even for a few seconds, can all lead to an unintentional death. It might be you who dies. Or,...

  • How to Keep Safe on Campus

    This article will tell you how to keep safe on campus.

  • How to Avoid Hitting a Deer When Driving in The Country

    Driving in the country, especially during hunting or mating season can be dangerous. Here are some ways to avoid a collision with a deer.

  • How to Determine When Children Should Switch Carseats

    One of the most confusing things for parents is trying to determine when a child is ready to switch from an infant car seat to a forward facing car seat to a booster seat and finally to a regular...

  • What Are the Dangers of Using Cell Phones While Driving?

    While just about everyone has a cell phone these days, it doesn't mean it's safe to use one while driving. On the contrary, it actually increases the risks, presenting a whole new slew of...

  • How to Avoid Dings and Scratches on Cars

    Don't you just hate it? You buy a new car and in no time at all you discover a fresh ding or scratch. While there's no way you can prevent these altogether, short of parking your car in the...

  • How to Keep Yourself Safe in an Emergency Situation as a Woman

    Abductions happen in an instant normally without time to react and defend yourself. You have to act without hesitation in order to free yourself from being taken and harmed. Women and children are...

  • Rules for Car Seats

    Every child car seat comes with an instruction booklet. To provide your child with optimal safety, install the car seat properly--according to the instructions. Even though you think you can...

  • How to Reduce Injuries in Children

    Did you know that injuries are the leading cause of death in children in the United States? That's enough to keep parents up late at night! If we are going to reduce the chances that our child...

  • Information About Defensive Driving

    Aggressive drivers are responsible for one-third of traffic accidents, according to KidsHealth.org. Defensive driving techniques enable you to avoid these drivers and lower your risk of being...

  • How to Teach teenagers, or anyone else, safe driving behavior.

    Before your student even gets in the car, You will be able to state and convey the basic and root causes of accidents. You cannot cure injuries and death on the highway, without teaching the...

  • How to Start Dealing with a Car Accident

    Learn what you should do first after a car accident.

  • How to Prepare for a Desert Motorcycle Tour

    Being prepared to ride in the Southwest during the summer is paramount. The temperatures during mid-day can reach up to 120 degrees and the temperatures on the roadway can reach 150 degrees +. ...

  • How to Avoid getting a Hangover Easily

    We have all been there at one time or another. When your at an event and you drink a little more than you should have. But, how do you not end up with the dreaded hangover the next day? Follow...

  • Britax Decathlon Vs. Boulevard

    Britax manufactures top-of-the-line car seats, two of which are the Decathlon and the Boulevard models.

  • Are Airbags in Cars Good or Bad?

    Since 1998, the federal government has required that new automobiles be equipped with dual airbags for front-seat passengers. While airbags have been credited for saving thousands of lives since...

  • Cell Phone Use & Safety

    Cell phones have undoubtedly changed how people communicate with each other. In the past decade, they've become so essential that more than 80 percent of Americans now own one, and many people are...

  • How to Avoid Car Accidents in Parking Lots

    Driving through a crowded parking lot is like driving through a danger zone. There are parked cars, moving cars, people walking around, children running around, shopping carts rolling around......

  • How to Escape from a Car Trunk

    Many attackers and kidnappers throw their victims in the trunk of a car. You are NOT helpless in these circumstances! Keep your wits about you and follow these steps to safety!

  • How to Help a Senior Citizen Give Up Driving

    One of the most challenging aspects of senior care comes at the time when it is no longer safe for your loved one to keep on driving. Driving offers your loved one a huge sense of independence...

  • Cell Phone Driving Tips

    The best tip for using a cellphone in a car is to avoid using it while driving whenever possible. While hands-free devices let you keep both hands on the wheel, the phone is still a distraction...

  • How to Cool the Inside of your Car on a Hot Day

    The inside of your car can become an oven sitting in the sun, especially when there is a heat wave. Did you know that it can get as hot as 160 degrees? It can get so hot that it is uncomfortable...

  • How to Prevent Motorcycle Accidents and Fatalities

    Motorcycle accident statistics are grim. With an exponential rise in new riders in the past ten years, accident reports are more and more common. Motorcycle accident lawyers are becoming more...

  • About Alcohol Related Car Accidents

    Alcohol and driving have always been a potentially lethal combination. Drivers who have been drinking pose a greater threat to themselves and others than any other type of driver on the road...

  • Highway Traffic Regulations

    The term "highway" refers to all public travel through roads and waters. Highway laws and regulations include maintenance and traveling through turnpikes, bridges, ferries, rivers and roads....

  • How to Complete Stops at Stop Signs

    Stops signs are found at intersections where there is quite a bit of traffic. You may find the stop signs on both sides of one street or at all four corners of the intersection. The signs are...

  • How to Survive a 3-day DUI/OVI/Driver Intervention Program Weekend Class

    Unfortunately, I'm able to write this article first hand :( On December 13, 2008 I got an OVI (formerly a DUI in Ohio). I did not take the BAC, or do the field sobriety tests, so my penalties...

  • How to Protect Yourself if Pulled Over at Night

    You hear it on the news occasionally - someone is driving alone at night on a deserted stretch of road when they see a blue light behind them. Someone with a light and/or a siren pulls them over....

  • How to Stay Safe, Comfortable, and Sane in a Cheap Hotel (Motel)

    So you are driving through the night and it is time to call it quits but where will you stay? What if you can't afford a nicer hotel room? The fact is that I travel often and have experienced...

  • How to Treat An Anaphylatic Allergic Reaction

    A life threatening reaction can happen to anyone. An anaphylactic allergic reaction is caused by insects, food, or medication. Serious allergies can develop at any time even if a person has never...

  • How Does a Breathalyzer Test Work?

    The breathalyzer refers to dozens of types of breath-analyzing products. Smith and Wesson designed the Breathalyzer in the 1950s. They are designed to measure the blood alcohol concentration...

  • How to Interpret Lab Results for Blood Test for Alcohol

    Blood tests for alcohol are often a key component of any DUI or other legal proceeding. One of the difficulties of such tests is that they can be difficult for a layman or a patient to interpret....

  • What Causes People to Not Wear Seat Belts?

    The majority of American drivers wear seat belts, as do their front-seat passengers. However, a significant number of drivers continue to risk injury and death by not wearing one. Why is this? The...

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