Follow Safety Tips – Driving with Large Trucks

• Weighing as much as 80,000 pounds, large trucks and truck-tractor combinations require more acceleration and deceleration time than an average passenger vehicle and can have blind spots in multiple locations.

• It is important for drivers to share the road responsibly with large trucks. Drivers should always take extra care and observe the following safety tips.

Follow Safty Tips For High-Way Driving

Speed Limits

• The maximum daytime speed limit on most interstate and state highways in Texas is 70 miles per hour. At night, the maximum speed limit is 65 miles per hour. In some areas, the speed limit is higher because of fewer people traveling on certain roads.
• Observing speed limits means more than driving faster or slower than the posted speed: it means driving to conditions. When it’s raining or foggy, when ice is on the road, when traffic is heavy or when road construction is ahead, adjust your speed accordingly.

Road sign Boards

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Crossing the road safely

Pedestrians have to share the road with vehicles so it is important they take care when crossing the road.

As a pedestrian, plan where you will walk and always choose the safest place to cross a road.

Safe places to cross

• Whenever possible, cross at a pedestrian crossing, traffic signal or pedestrian refuge.
• Make sure you have a clear view of approaching traffic, and where drivers can see you.
• If you cannot cross the whole road in one attempt, wait on the pedestrian refuge or median strip.

Crossings
Even at crossings you still need to remain alert and check whether vehicles are stopping for you. Always make sure traffic has actually stopped before stepping onto the road.

Remember school crossings are legally active only when the flags are displayed. If a crossing attendant is on duty, cross only when he or she indicates that it is safe.

Bike rider safety

• The popularity of bike riding has increased dramatically in the last 10 years.

• To bike riders, riding a bike is a means of transport, a form of fitness, a social network and a sense of freedom.Bicycles are vehicles, and under the law bike riders have the same rights and responsibilities as car drivers.In the five years to 2010, an average of 457 bike riders were seriously injured or killed on Victoria’s roads each year. The five year (2006-2010) average of bike rider fatalities is just fewer than nine and serious injuries is 449 per year.To stay safe bike riders need to obey the road rules, ride predictably, share the road respectfully and safely with other road users, and maintain their bicycles properly.

TRAFFIC RULES & REGULATIONS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN While Walking to School :-

• Always walk on footpath only. On roads without footpath, walk on thee xtreme right hand side of the roads.

• Do not be impatient on the road. Do not rush or run on the road.

• Cross only at Zebra crossings, traffic signals, and where such facilities do not exist, look for a safe place to cross.

Helpful Driving Information

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Signals By Authorised Persons

Road lines

 

Give way to traffic on a major road – can also be used at a mini roundabout

Give way to traffic from the right at a mini roundabout

Give way to traffic from the right at a roundabout

Stop line at signals or police control	Stop line for pedestrians at a level crossing	Stop line at a Stop sign

Trafic signs for colour blind peoples.

• Some types of colours are can be seen By the colour blind peoples . 

• By the way scientists invented the diffenent trafic signs/signals .

• That wise the accidents made by the colour blind people are reduce.