Letter to the Editor Jan. 12, 2010

Published: January 12, 2010

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Safe driving tips

EDITOR: This letter is in response to the sad state of affairs that haunts our highways. The deaths destruction and mayhem engendered by our abandonment of good send behind the wheel.

I wonder how many drivers out there realize how much money they could save on their car insurance if they would just smarten up some. Do you think you are a good driver? Then why am I greeted almost every day by news of one or more car crashes in the newspapers. Why am I led to believe that you people are the ones I blame for my high insurance rates. I can say that, because I, nor my wife have ever had an accident. In saying that, I can than point the finger at the rest of you for making me pay outrageous rates.

In 60 years of driving and many millions of road miles, I get in a vehicle with the intention of getting to where I'm going in one piece. And whenever and if I have passengers I'm going to make sure I get them there in once piece. By accomplishing this task I must prioritize. Meaning when you get into a vehicle you put away the thing a pedestrian would normally utilize like cigarettes, food, ipods, radios and all other distractions. You avoid running over cats, dogs and all ill dressed pedestrians. Avoid the urge to pass every car on the road as 99 percent of the time it is unnecessary. Do not make it a habit of looking at the people in the rear seat or looking at scenery too long. It is tolerable to glance at scantly dressed women for a moment, any longer and it could be an emergency room moment.

Ninety percent of you are tailgaters and if you don't believe it give yourselves a fun test. Next time you are on the road wait till a car in front of you is next to a pole mail box or some rigid object and count seconds. If at fifty or fifty five miles an hour you get to this same object in three second, than you are probably not a tailgater. Anything less you are a hazard. I learned this trick at triple A school for old folks that we go to every three years. The space between you and car in front and space between you and car in rear is the best fundamental safety net you can have.

Want to avoid read end crashes at stop and go and yield areas? Simple; when behind a car at these points keep an eye on car in front till he's totally gone before proceeding to take your turn and before looking left or right. When you get the green light do you look left and right in case someone wasn't looking?

You people who keep killing yourselves trying to avoid deer on the highways, shape up because turning that wheel will take you on a one way ticket to la la land.

If you all make up your mind to use some driving sense I could save money on my insurance.

Vincent Calaman

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