Driving Lessons : Brake Lights

It is that time of year, dark mornings and evenings when motorists’ seem to get worked up about the use of brake lights when stationary, perhaps at a road junction or in a queue of traffic. With the higher intensity that is need to attract oncoming vehicles that the one in front is braking, plus the addition now of one place higher up on the car or van, these have a tendency to dazzle the car behind when they too are close and stationary also.

The use of the foot brake is two-fold in these circumstances, to warn the vehicles coming up from behind and to hold the car stationary. Many safety experts consider that the foot should be kept on the brake until such time as the driver of the oncoming vehicle has taken on board the fact that you are stationary and then the handbrake applied and the footbrake released. If however you have had to pull up just beyond a bend in the road, it is wise to put your hazard flashers on as well.

Driving lessons are available from Bill Plant Driving School.

Published by admin on January 22nd, 2008 in Road Safety