Bad Driving Habits

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Unless you are a fulltime driving instructor, it’s unlikely that you think about being involved in a car accident. We, as automobile drivers, all have developed some bad driving habits. The first step towards improving our driving is being aware of the habits we have developed. Many of these drivers have dangerous habits. The following are dangerous to do while driving: drinking or eating while driving, talking on cell phones, driving without their head lights on, and not wearing a seatbelt.
There are a number of accidents that occur everyday as the direct result of eating and drinking while driving. Coffee, hot soup, chili, tacos, and burgers are included in the list of most dangerous food and drinks to consume while driving. We may have seem an individual who, though running late in the morning, stops at the local convenience store to quickly fill up a cup of coffee, throws down the eighty-nine cents and jets out the door, jumps into his car and weaves his way out of the parking lot and onto the main road. Taking a sip of coffee while driving, he unfortunately finds he is driving over the poorest paved surface in the entire county. With the hot coffee spilt all over his shirt, pants, and newly cleaned carpet, he jumps from his seat, accidentally hitting the accelerator. Now, he not only have a mess on the inside of his car, but the damage done to the front bumper accumulates for more then one thousand times the price of a cup of coffee.
Driving in general can be treacherous. Driving and having such a distraction as a cell phone at your ear, or ringing somewhere in your car, is ten times more dangerous. Not surprisingly, drivers who use a cell phone while driving perceive cell phone use by others as less of a threat to their safety as do non-users. One out of five drivers who use a cell phone while driving sees this activity as a major threat. The number of accidents caused by talking on a cell phone accounts for six and a half m...