Active Driving Can Save Your Life
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Details Concerning Unsafe Drivers is Alarming
Poor Driving Skills Runs Rampant
The following statistics concerning drivers in the United States should put a scare into anyone who reads them.
Almost 1 out of 5 drivers would not pass a written drivers test if they were given one (38 million people). Basic rules of the road are not only disregarded, drivers do not even have knowledge of what is in those rules.
These statistics are being played out on our streets and roads today with alarming results. One of the most telling results of a poll that was conducted by the National Drivers Test survey was that 85% could not identify the correct action to take when approaching a yellow light at an intersection even though one of the selections was to “proceed through the intersection before the light turns red.” (more…)
