Some things and actions may seem harmless, but under certain circumstances they become harmful and dangerous. Read on to learn how to keep traffic safe no matter what the circumstances.
1. Legs on a torpedo
Many people have experience riding with their legs tucked up on a torpedo or even sticking out a window. For example, on vacation, passing along the sea line at the walking speed you want to sit as comfortable and free as possible. But this in no case can be done.
The fact is that with such a landing, even the smallest accident entails serious injury. At collision on "walking" speeds about 30 km/h the person sitting so risks will receive the fracture of both legs. And having put your feet out the window, a person can get back injury and even disability at all. Thus road accident at such speed at normal landing does not threaten anything more serious, than pair of abrasions and fright.
Interesting fact: In 2015, a low speed accident occurred in the Moscow region, in which a girl sitting with her legs on a torpedo was fractured on both legs at once. It would seem that just innocent pampering turned out to be a serious injury, which chained a person to the bed for months of rehabilitation.
2. Headphones at the wheel
Some drivers wear headphones, though I can hardly believe it. At first glance, using headphones is even safer when you're on the phone, and it's not a traffic violation, but the headphones have one major drawback: they isolate the ears from noise. All the sounds of the world around you in the headphones merge into one continuous low-frequency rumble. "But I can see why I need to hear it, can't I? - You can ask. Yes, you see, but hearing is one of the main senses, and driving a car, even though it's become commonplace for us, still remains an action of great danger. So, the driver in the headphones may not hear the horns of other cars, road sounds and other vital sounds. Is it worth it?
3. unnecessary things in the trunk and interior
The superfluous things which lie in a salon or trunks (if we speak about a 2-volume body), besides increase in the expense of fuel also block the review back at reconstructions and movement backwards on a parking lot that already is rather dangerous. However, these things become the most dangerous during accidents. Imagine the speed at which a driver or front passenger, say a camera thrown carelessly onto the rear shelf, would fly into the head during a collision at 50 km/h. Under these conditions, this camera would become a cannonball.
And if a person wearing a seatbelt in a modern car at such a speed would only get a small injury to his or her ribs from a seatbelt, then our imaginary camera would mean one hundred percent death on the spot. It's not a fact that even a headrest can do something about it.
4. Driving with the seat pushed backwards
Many drivers like to move the seat as far back as possible to take a relaxed pose. And some "connoisseurs" even recommend to do so, they say that in this case, in case of an accident there is less chance to get injured. All this, of course, is a complete stupidity.
There are clearly described rules of correct landing of the driver, and these rules are written with blood. According to them, the driver should sit so that with a fully depressed clutch pedal in the knee joint formed an angle of 120-130 degrees, the angle in the pelvis should be - 90 degrees, the hands should lie by analogy with the clock face at "9" and "3" and form an elbow angle of 130 - 160 degrees. Drivers like to sit even closer to the wheel to feel the road and be able to turn the wheel faster, but there is no sense for a civilian driver to sit like that.
If you sit too far from the wheel, the angle in your hands will increase, the necessary lever will disappear and the speed of turning the wheel will fall - the driver will not be able to adequately and quickly respond to the road situation. In addition, the forward visibility is impaired in this position. And in case of an accident, the probability of a serious fracture of the arms and legs increases several times. After all, in case of an inevitable collision, the driver will instinctively try to straighten and strain them. If properly seated, he will not be able to do so completely, and during the impact they will bend to the natural side. Sitting on a retracted chair, the driver will be able to straighten his arms and legs completely... And then everything is clear.