As Fall Back looms around the corner, it is time to remember safety tips for the driving in the dark.
Drive more slowly at night because you cannot see as far ahead and you will have less time to stop for a hazard. Make sure you can stop within the distance lighted by your headlights.Use your low-beam headlights at night when it rains. Do not drive using only your parking lights.
Use your high-beam headlights whenever possible in open country or dark city streets, as long as it is not illegal. Do not blind other drivers with your high-beam headlights. Dim your lights when necessary. If another driver does not dim his or her lights:
- Do not look directly into the oncoming headlights.
- Look toward the right edge of your lane
- Watch the oncoming vehicle out of the corner of your eye
- Do not try to "get back" at the other driver by keeping your bright lights on. If you do, both of you may be blinded.
When you drive at night, remember:
- Pedestrians and bicyclist are much harder to see at night; stay alert6 for them
- Motorcycles are also harder to see at night because most have only one taillight.
- Highway construction can take place at night. Reduce your speed in highway construction zones.
- When you leave a brightly-lit place, drive slowly until your eyes adjust to the darkness.
- Drive as fa the the right as possible, when a vehicle with one light drives toward you. It could be a bicyclist or motorcyclist, but it could also be a vehicle with a missing headlight.
