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Tip! Passing the Department of Transport Driving Test, sooner rather than later, will result in further reductions in already high Insurance costs. Lessons taken just before the Driving Test will not cut it in today’s Test environment; there is just too much to learn if one wants to be successful first time out.
According to the National Institute for Highway Safety, the number and severity of auto accidents increases 10 fold between the hours of 11 pm and 3 am. Here are proven tips to decrease your chances of an accident. Some of this may sound like common sense, but you wouldn’t believe how many people don’t follow these tips.
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Tips for Safer Driving at Night (Driving simulation)
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July 10th, 2009
Tip! As an addition to item number 4 as a fully licensed Driver, you may apply for the more advanced Hibernian Ignition course, providing you are in your first five years of driving .This is a full day course, the cost of which can be recouped, if you pass the practical driving assessment at the end of the day.
Summer may be coming soon however there is still a chance of having rain. In fact, rain could fall anytime without your knowing. And sometimes, light rain could turn into a torrential downpour that could leave you cold and miserable while driving on some highway.
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Driving On Wet Roads (Driving direction map)
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June 30th, 2009
Tip! Taking lessons will greatly improve your chances of staying safe and accident free since providing you retain what you have been taught, you will be probably better than many motorists who have been driving for considerably longer. Lack of sufficient training, or even no training at all which is common in Ireland, will inevitably lead to accidents at a very early stage in the driving career.
A vehicle equipped with a manual transmission is often known as a vehicle with a stick shift. Not all people do know how to drive with this kind of transmission, however, automobile experts suggest that once you do know how to drive a vehicle with a stick shift, you would be able to learn to drive with an automatic transmission easily. For those who do now know how to drive a stick shift, these experts suggest that you should practice well.
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Drunk driving victims – Driving With A Manual Transmission
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April 28th, 2009
Tip! Don’t drive under the influence of alcohol and never permit someone else who has been drinking to drive. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the number of unrestrained and/or alcohol-related traffic deaths from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve increased in 2004 from more than 2,100 in 2003 to 2,237.
People love their cars. Most people can’t wait until they’re old enough to go into debt with the purchase of their first car. The car symbolizes independence, adulthood and if you’re a man, it may increase your chances of getting a date. As pathetic as it sounds, men do consider what effects a car can have on their social life. Lots of women think in terms of economics, so a car is as much about perception as anything else. Of course, women might say material things don’t matter, but they really do.
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Driving Tips – Prepare For The Road (Get driving direction)
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April 13th, 2009
Tip! Migrant Cows on the road is another threat that you need to be aware of when driving in Cow country. Cows are resourceful beasts and when one maverick finds a way through a gap in the hedge, others will follow.
2600 deaths each year. About 100,000 injuries that lead to being disabled each year.
These are the numbers from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). And these are simply the statistics for effects of crashes and vehicular accidents on the roads and streets of the United States. And with summer vacation coming up, it means many families and groups of friends would be out on road trips to various places around the country. That is why the NHTSA would like all drivers to check their brakes before they do go out and drive towards any destination.
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Brakes First Before Driving (Motorcycle driving lights)
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January 24th, 2009
Tip! Emergencies occur. Be ready with a charged operable cellular phone, but don’t use the phone while you are driving.
To drive in Alberta as a new resident, you may be required to take a drivers test, depending on where you originate from. Your current driver’s license will be valid for 3 months from your date of arrival. If you hold a valid international driver’s license then you have 12 months or until it expires, which ever comes sooner to obtain your Alberta operators permit.
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Free driving test – Driving Regulations in Alberta
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December 24th, 2008
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