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When You Back Your Vehicle, You Should Check Your Surroundings
Physically turn to look out the rear window and check your surroundings, including blind spots. Accelerate slowly and avoid relying solely on mirrors or your horn for safety.
Physically turn to look out the rear window and check your surroundings, including blind spots. Accelerate slowly and avoid relying solely on mirrors or your horn for safety.
The Slow-Moving Vehicle (SMV) sign is a fluorescent orange triangle with a red reflective border. It warns approaching drivers to slow down for vehicles moving at 25 mph or less.
In a recent year, failure to yield resulted in 3.40% of tragic incidents ending in fatalities and nearly 17% (4.98% + 12.02%) causing suspected severe or minor injuries.
Not exchanging information after an accident can result in serious legal consequences and fines ranging from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.
Once you are involved in a car crash, it is important to seek help for any injury you might have sustained, assist other injured passengers, and also gather sufficient evidence from the accident scene to help show that you are not at fault.
If two vehicles approach an uncontrolled intersection at about the same time the vehicle on the left must yield to the one on the right.
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