Since driving safety is so important let's use this blog to continue our conversation on it and offer you some more great ways to avoid accidents.
Today's first tip is never cross highway medians. It is not uncommon for people to find themselves turned around on the highway and headed in the wrong direction. When this happens it may be several miles before you reach the next exit and can turn yourself around.
Then you see a median ahead and to the left and the temptation is to use it to cut across the highway and get turned around faster. But this is a dangerous if not deadly idea. To do this you must slow down on the highway which is never a good idea.
Other drivers may be going too fast to avoid running into the rear of your vehicle. They may swerve to keep from hitting you and wind up causing a chain reaction in which a number of vehicles collide.
Pulling out into speeding traffic on the other side of the highway holds an equal number of similar perils. In the seconds that it takes your car to go from 0 to 60 m.p.h. other vehicles have to negotiate around you - and some find themselves in the untenable and unavoidable situation of running into you or someone else.
In many states it is illegal to use the media to cross the highway. Prohibited or not - it's a bad and potentially deadly idea.
For everybody's sake just go to the next exit and turn around. Drive safely.
Greg Baumgartner is a Houston truck accident attorney and the founder of the Baumgartner law firm which is dedicated to helping victims of truck accidents seek civil justice. if you have been in a 18-wheeler accident and would like to speak with a 18-wheeler accident attorney call the Baumgartner law firm.
