Weather conditions
Despite the fact that the danger of accident and injury on the roadway always increases when weather conditions turn bad, million of car owners fail to alter their driving practices when the roads get wet or slippery. To help protect your self, your passengers, and everyone else on the roads, it's essential to know how slick roads adversely affect your auto's performance and how to change your driving habits to minimize these effects
When driving, generally one of the main rules to staying safe is being able to stop within the distance that you can see. At night this is particularly true, therefore if there are no streetlights you ahould be travelling slow enough so that you can stop within the distance illuminated by your headlights. You can see further when on main beam so if for any reason you need to dip your headlights you should alter your speed accordingly.
Regular checks of your lights should be done to ensure that they are in working order. The easiest way to do this is to get someone to watch while you run through the switches. If no one is available you can check lights, such as break lights, by parking close to a wall and looking for the reflections.
Any eyesight problems that you may have can become worse when drivig in the dark. Whether you have perfect eyesight or not, travelling at night puts more strain on your eyes and is therefore more tiring. For this reason, long journeys in the dark are best avoided but if this is not possible regular breaks are of the upmost importance.
Driving at night is more dangerous than during the day. One of the obvious reasons is darkness. Ninety percent of a driver's reaction depends on vision, and vision is severely limited at night. Depth perception, color recognition and peripheral vision are compromised after sundown.
Some weather conditions.
Fog
Night Driving
Rainy Weather
Winter Weather
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