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Entering a Tire Track(rut)
1 Example
- When you are driving at 50km/h, you try to avoid an oncoming car, but your car enters a deep tire track and is thrown into to path of the oncoming vehicle.
- Whilst driving you are surprised at the falling into a tire track and steer and brake suddenly, causing the car to slip to the right into the path of an oncoming car.
- When you are driving on two tire tracks, the car is not able to leave the tracks to avoid an oncoming car.
2 What did you do wrong?
- You were not paying enough attention when driving on the tire track.
- You did not slow down before going into the tire track.
- You braked suddenly or did not steer carefully enough.
3 How to avoid accidents
- Always drive with care.
- Brake when you drive on tire tracks.
- Deep tire tracks are not easy to get out of, even if you put chains on the tires. So, avoid them and drive in shallow places.
- On narrow roads, there are often only 3 tire tracks-BE CAREFUL.
*Pay special attention to areas which do not receive any sun, and on curves, where tire tracks are created very easily.