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49 Cards in this Set
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When do most accidents occur |
In fine weather on sealed roads in the day time |
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where do most costs associated with car crashes go? |
24% to long term care 21% to maintaining victims quality of life |
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If you slow down from 70km/h to 60km/h you will |
need 30% less distance to stop |
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A person with a BAC (Blood alcohol content) of 00.5 |
is twice as likely to crash than someone with a BAC of 0.0 |
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Male drivers are more likely to be distracted when |
driving with other males of similar age |
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Most fatigue related crashes occur |
on country roads |
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The risk of crashing |
doubles for every 5km over the speed limit |
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If you are driving in dark and foggy conditions |
leave a gap of at least 4 seconds |
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People who let their emotions dictate their driving are usually |
young males |
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what is the percentage chance of killing a pedestrian at 60km/h |
70% |
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What percentage of fatigue related crashes happen on metropolitian roads? |
25% |
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What are fatigue crash risk hours? |
4-8am and 12-2pm |
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what percentage of crashes are fatigue related? |
18% |
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A combination of human error and other factors |
account for 90% of road accidents |
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More than half the drivers killed by alcohol |
Have a blood alcohol content of 0.15 (3x legal limit) |
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What percentage of accidents happen in high alcohol hours? |
30% |
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How long does it take to break in a 60km/h zone? |
0.75 seconds to see the hazard and 0.75 to break, so a total of 1.5 seconds. |
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dangerous driving has a maximum prison sentence term of |
10 years |
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Negligent driving has a maximum prison term of |
18 months |
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By how much is your field of vision reduced at 100km/h |
By more than a third (stationary field of vision is 180 degrees, at 100km/h it is applied |
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Alcohol is a contributing factor in |
20% of crashes in NSW |
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Speed is a factor in |
40% of crashes in NSW |
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Crashes involving full license drivers occur between vehicles in opposing directions |
16% of the time |
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Crashes are most common in |
60km/h speed zones |
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crashes are most likely to occur |
between Mon-Fri 9-3pm |
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What is the most common collision between a car and motorcycle? |
When another vehicle turns across the path of the motorcycle |
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What do most speed related crashes occur? |
At night |
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High Alcohol hours are |
weeknights (Thu,Fri) and Weekends |
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Percentage of Fatigue-related crashes on country roads? |
75% |
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If you are driving in dark and foggy conditions, you should |
travel four seconds or more |
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Crash research shows that drivers make a NEAR crash mistake every |
800km |
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Why is it more dangerous to travel at high speeds (100km or more)? |
It narrows your field of vision |
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What is covering the brake? |
Lifting your right foot off the accelerator and placing it above the brake read to push down in case conditions change |
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Which may affect ability |
Marijuana + cold tablets |
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What shuld be distance between parked car and moving car |
1 Meter |
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What is a good scanning procedure |
constantly doing a head check to cover blind sports, looking ahead |
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Why are women less likely to have a collision |
Not over confident drivers |
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What is fatigue? |
Tired, exhausted, sleepy |
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What makes you a safe driver, and the answer is something like: |
Accept what is your fault |
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If someone tail gates you |
you should slow down so you can force car behind you to slow down |
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Which group of people have the highest risk of crashing |
People who drive to get rid of their boredom |
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What is the biggest distraction while driving |
other passengers |
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You're traveling behind a truck what gaps should you have between the truck |
3 second |
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Research have shown that experience drivers usually have an accident in urban area due to |
not looking ahead far enough |
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what is involved in a scanning |
using your eye and or moving your head to look ahead, to the sides and to the back |
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Shows you a picture of a reserving car, on its left there is a man walking a dog. How can the driver check the blind spot? |
Look to the left and to the right |
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What are the causes of fatigue |
driving far and working long hours |
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what contributes the most to an accident |
human error |
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How far ahead should you be looking as part of a scanning routine |
12 sec |
