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The Smith System is a defensive driving strategy [1] created in 1952 by Harold L. Smith. [2] [3] Smith's goal was to increase the safety of commercial drivers. [2]After he opened the Safeway Driving School in Detroit in 1948, [4] Smith established the Smith System Driver Improvement Institute in 1952.
The two-second rule tells a defensive driver the minimum distance to avoid collision in ideal driving conditions. The red car's driver picks a tree to judge a two-second safety buffer. Defensive driving describes the practice of anticipating dangerous situations, despite adverse conditions or the mistakes of others when operating a motor vehicle.
On an undetermined date in the summer of 2023, a Boston police officer slid down the slide and was filmed emerging from the end of the slide at high speed. He sustained a minor head injury and was treated by Boston Emergency Medical Services using his own medical insurance. He did not miss work time nor face any disciplinary action. [5] [9]
A snowplow clears snow from a road, as a winter storm hits the Midwest, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., January 5, 2025, in this still image obtained from video.
Improvements in driver training and safety features for rural roads are hoped to reduce this statistic. [72] The number of designated traffic officers in the UK fell from 15% to 20% of police force strength in 1966 to seven per cent of force strength in 1998, and between 1999 and 2004 by 21%. [73]
An upside down flag: A prop for protests or signal for help Many see the inversion of the flag as a sign of disrespect, but it has traditionally been used as a call for help by individuals and groups.
A 22-year-old Atlanta man was charged with trespassing after he allegedly climbed over a fence and attempted to take down a huge Confederate flag beside Interstate 85 in Chesnee.
Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...