According to the Traffic Police Corps of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, there are many foggy weather in autumn and winter, and it is easy to have multiple vehicle collision accidents. Driving on foggy days should pay attention to controlling the speed to maintain a low speed, turn on the front and rear fog lights and emergency lights, and maintain a certain distance from the car in front... More points to note are available for details
Precautions for driving on foggy days
1. Low speed driving
Driving on foggy days must control the speed to maintain a low speed, due to low visibility can not see the pedestrians and vehicles in front, low speed driving helps to let the car encounter unexpected situations, immediately brake and stop.
2, the use of lighting
Fog driving should pay attention to the use of lights, remember to turn on the front and rear fog lights and emergency lights, if there is no fog lights of the vehicle to open the low beam lights, do not open the high beam lights, high beam will be fog reflection can not see the road clearly.
3. Driving route
Pay attention to drive as close as possible to the yellow line on the road, but only close to the yellow line, if the road does not have a yellow line, you can be close to the middle of the road can not drive in the middle, do not drive on the side of the road, so as not to see the road clearly hit the roadside trees or road signs and other accidents.
4. Control the distance
Driving on foggy days should maintain a certain distance, do not follow other people's vehicles because you can't see the road clearly, and be sure to pull the distance between the two cars, so as to prevent the front car from causing rear-end collision when braking urgently.
5. Be cautious about overtaking
Due to the low visibility on foggy days, vehicles will drive at low speeds, so don't be anxious, don't see that the vehicles in front of you are too slow to be ready to overtake.
6, the use of warm air
Cold weather will open the warm air, there is hot gas in the car, so that a cold and a hot will make the front of the windshield on the fog affect the line of sight, do not wipe with your hands after the fog, because even if the wiping will appear for a while, so that the rubbing will affect the safety of the driving vehicle. At this time, the warm wind direction can be adjusted to blow the glass in front of it, which will make the fog on the glass disappear.
7. Carefully park
When driving on a foggy day if you want to pull over, be sure to turn on the turn signals in advance and slowly approach the side of the road to park. After stopping, turn on the emergency lights, get out of the car away from the vehicle, and do not stay in the car to prevent the danger of rear-end rear-end collision. When getting off the bus, be careful not to get off on the left side and get off on the right side to avoid being hit by a moving vehicle.
Source: Published in Shanghai
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