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"Animal Hazards on the Highway" by David Thompson. Brief article on avoiding disaster caused by animals in the roadway.

"Learning To Drive: A Guide For Parents" Article provides good tips on teaching safe driving habits to teenagers working towards obtaining a license. Common sense and standard "rules" make this a good guide for the budding driver & parents.

Red Light Relaxation Techniques Let Susan Bellone show you red light relaxation techniques in this free video series. You will learn deep breathing exercises, shoulder shrugging techniques, and head leaning tips to minimize the discomfort of the wait. With your demanding schedule, these stress relief techniques will help your health and mind. So, take some time and learn how to minimize the stress of your everyday commute.

"NEW TEEN DRIVERS' HOMEPAGE" Ryan Buckholz, a Howard County, MD, teen has set up a "NEW TEEN DRIVERS' HOMEPAGE" which contains phenomenal advice for new and experienced drivers, alike. The neatest thing about the site is that it is by a teen and for teens. This site may help all you concerned parents - many times a teen will not accept good instruction from an adult, where they'll take the word of another teen as gospel. Check this excellent site out for yourself, and then steer your teen in the same direction!

"Road Rage" by Mark Pepper. Article discusses the incidence of road rage and its mechanism, as well as providing tips to survive a rage attack and avoid becoming a victim or perpetrator.

Free videos from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Short, interesting, well produced videos on various subjects regarding safe driving are available through the AAA-FTS. Give them a donation if you can, but it is not required! They are pretty quick, too! Mine got here in about 10 days.

"Aggressive Driving: Three Studies" Three extensive, shocking and highly informative studies on aggressive driving. "Aggressive Driving" by Louis Mizell, "Road Rage" by Matthew Joint, MSc, BSc, MCIT, and "Driver Aggression" By Dominic Connell, BSc and Matthew Joint. These reports are must reads for anyone on the road these days!!

"How To Prevent a Carjacking" Tips on avoiding becoming a victim from Mr. Traffic.

MSIB Tip Sheet on preventing a carjacking.

Spooky MSIB article on the frequency and circumstances of carjacking. Read and beware!

"How to Protect Yourself In a Parking Garage" Quick note/tip sheet for parking garage safety by MSIB.

"Animal Hazards on the Highway" by David Thompson. Brief article on avoiding disaster caused by animals in the roadway.

I Locked My Keys in My Car In these free auto lockout emergency videos, learn what to do when you’ve locked your keys in the car—aside from calling a locksmith. Our expert will show you how to use special tools, usually readily available to the public, to unlock your car free of charge. Learn how to use everything from a slim jim to a lasso tool to finagle your way through the door jamb and back into your vehicle. Find out about magnetic spare car key holders. Finally, get some practical theft prevention tips you can use so that you’ll still have a car to lock your keys in.

Change A Flat Tire You need to watch this free video series. We'll all have a flat tire at some point, but you'll never be stuck helpless on the side of the road again with the step-by-step instructions from our expert mechanic on how to change a flat tire. Get the tips, know the tools and become an expert by following the easy advice from an expert. It will only takes a few minutes to learn these basic car maintenance tips, but you'll save yourself hours of future misery with this free video series.

Traffic Tips Learn how to beat traffic jams, traffic tickets, and road rage in this free video series about driving tips and tricks.

Take steps to protect yourself from dangers of rural driving When you're driving on a highway in a rural area, you're at greater risk for a fatal crash than when you're driving in the city. You need to protect yourself when driving in the country, says John Shutske, farm safety and health specialist with the University of Minnesota Extension Service.

Rural Driving Situations. Rural roads account for about 40% of all vehicle miles traveled and over 60% of all speed related fatal crashes. As we look at these statistics how can we identify hazardous situations in our rural environment. How do rural roads affect them as beginning drivers? How many students drive to school on rural roads? How many of them have encountered dangerous situations on these roads ( deer, cows, farm machinery pulling in front of them, unplowed roads, road construction, etc.)?

Some tips for driving on ice! You don't have to live in a wintery climate to encounter icy roads and hazardous roadways. In temperatures at or just above 32-degrees, a thin layer of water can turn to or cover ice, causing extremely dangerous, slippery driving conditions.

Deer goes airborne, crashes through car Years ago, when Butler Township Police Chief Gary Garman was working in Illinois, he heard about a deer jumping from a slope and dropping like a four-legged bomb through the top of a convertible that was driving by. Up to the other day, Garman thought that was one of the wildest deer stories he'd ever run across.

Driving on Ice As weather conditions change, so do road conditions. During the winter, you may find yourself stuck on a patch of ice or snow. Racing the engine won't help you need traction to get out.

Driving Tips for Family Safety on Rural Roads at Harvest Bruce MacKellar - Van Buren Agricultural Agent As the harvest season continues, I would like to take a brief moment to remind motorists that patience is an important virtue when following or meeting agricultural harvest equipment on rural roadways. Weather, rather than a time clock, dictates to farmers when field operations must be completed and how much of the potential crop might be left to harvest and sell. Massive equipment, moving from field to field harvesting grain and grapes, often take up more than a single lane of rural roadways even if the operator is driving as close to the trees on the far edge of the shoulder as possible.

Winter Driving with an SUV Snow, ice, rain, and fog are all of the accompaniments of winter that make driving especially dangerous in any vehicle, including Sport Utility Vehicles and four wheel drive pick up trucks. While having 4 wheel drive in a vehicle can greatly improve road traction, 4wd does not automatically eliminate winter driving dangers.
Tires For Winter Driving Don't Drive On Dry Pavement In 4wd Passing In Curves In Rain, Snow, Or Ice Following Too Close Visibility Paying Close Attention Loss Of Control Driving In Rain First Rains of the Season Controlling a Skid Practice Skidding - No Kidding!	Should I Drive In 2wd or 4wd?Hydroplaning Driving With Chains Preparing Chains For Your Tires Drive Slowly When Chains Are Installed Sliding On A Banked Road Parking In Snow Driving In Snow And Ice Fill Up That Gas Tank Clean Snow Off Windows, Hood, And Lighting	Know The Road You Are Driving Reduce Driving Speed On Ice or Snow Watch For Snow Removal Equipment Snow Depth Watching For Ice And Frost Should I Drive In 4wd Hi Range or Lo Range? Keeping Traction With The Roadway

e-How Tip Sheets: Not overly detailed, on most topics, but profligate:

Avoid Common Traffic Tickets Other Than Speeding - Get a Warning Instead of a Ticket - Avoid a Speeding Ticket - Decide Whether to Fight a Traffic Ticket - Defend Yourself in Traffic Court with a Prosecutor and No Jury - Defend Yourself in Traffic Court in a Jury Trial - Defend Yourself in Traffic Court in a Trial with No Prosecutor - Prepare Your Defense for Traffic Court - Find Out About Traffic Court Procedures

Cool Down an Overheated Car - Handle Brake Failure - Handle Hood Latch Failure When Driving - Handle Power Steering Failure - Handle a Stuck Gas Pedal - Interpret Your Car's Warning Lights - Install Tire Chains - Survive If Your Car Breaks Down

Deal With Road Ragers - Cope With Slow-Moving Vehicles - Drive Safely in Rain - Drive in a Traffic Circle - Drive in Icy Conditions - Drive in the Fog - Recover From Loss of Traction - Stay Alert While Driving - Stay Safe When Stranded - Avoid a Carjacking - Escape From a Car in the Water

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