Modern motor vehicles come equipped with different beeps and bops and alarms and notifications that are designed to keep you safe and avoid a New Haven auto accident.  These new technologies are evolving quickly and they vary greatly from vehicle to vehicle.  It is important to know how your vehicle handles these types of safety alerts so you can respond to them accordingly. The best thing you can do to make sure you are aware of the sounds and alerts that your vehicle is making is to review the vehicle’s operating manual which will give you an indication of what the different lights and sounds mean when you are driving your vehicle.  The operating manual will highlight each and every alert and notification that you may receive while you’re driving so you are not surprised when you see something new. With that being said, it can be jarring the first time you hear or see a new alert or light.  Therefore, it is important for you to take a few steps when you experience a new alert so that when it happens again you are aware of what it is for and how to use it to your advantage for the safety of you and your passengers. Step #1: Adjust your driving according to the severity of the alert.  For instance, if an alert sounds and…continue reading

When it all comes down to it, driving safely comes down to a series of small, split second decisions that either keep you safe or get you involved in a New Haven auto accident and could lead to your injury.  If you stop and think about it these decisions quite literally can be life or death.  So, it is important to know what decisions could be the most costly to your safety and how to avoid them. We spend a lot of time talking about the dangers of speeding and before we get into these decisions it’s important to note the role that speed would play in how these decisions play out.  One of the biggest impacts speed has is that it makes you make your decisions while you’re driving faster.  It requires that you are not just making decisions quickly, but that you are making them while traveling at a high rate of speed which can make it harder to make the right decision.  Speeding has also been shown in study after study to make accidents more severe and often lead to fatalities when a car accident does occur.  It bears repeating that you should not be speeding and you should always obey the speed limit to keep yourself safe from harm and to also slow down these split second decisions that could put…continue reading