April 17, 4:16 or so, Jining, Shandong Province, Jiguang high-speed 178KM +500M where three cars had a rear-end collision, as can be seen from the media exposure of the video footage, the impact was very large, the vehicles involved in different degrees of damage. In this accident, there are three people unfortunately died on the spot, another person in the hospital after the rescue also died, there is a person injured in the hospital for treatment, but fortunately not life-threatening. As for the specific details of the accident, is still under further investigation.
How can we achieve safe driving?A, what is defensive driving technology
Drivers in the driving process, can accurately "foresee" by other drivers, pedestrians, bad weather or road conditions and the risk of triggering, and can be timely to take the necessary, reasonable and effective measures to prevent accidents, which can avoid the danger of the driving mode Called defensive driving techniques.
Two, defensive driving technology five principles Defensive driving core content mainly 'five key points', drivers must remember, and comprehensive use, can avoid danger." "The five essentials" for the anticipation of risk, look away, always scanning, leaving room for maneuver, compelling.
1. Anticipate Risk: When traveling on the road, drivers are confronted with a wide variety of risks and potential hazards at a time, and often have only a few seconds to assess these risks and need to immediately develop and implement a course of action to avoid or minimize them. Therefore, drivers need to have a sense of the bigger picture, so that they do not actively cause accidents or passively become involved in accidents.
2. Look beyond: When driving, since more than 90% of decisions are made based on what the eyes see, in order to have enough time and space to avoid the source of the danger, drivers need to search for traffic conditions beyond the range of at least 15 seconds in front of them during the driving process.
3. Loop vision: no matter when and where the driver is driving, should have a clear understanding of the 360-degree space around the car , as well as the car in the entire road traffic system in the position, at the same time in order to find potential hazards in a timely manner, but also to maintain the visual search of the uninterrupted and orderly, and consciously avoid to be distracted by other things. Attention.
4. Leaving room for manoeuvre: Drivers need to maintain space in front of and behind them, as it is essential to keep a safe distance from the surrounding vehicles to give the driver enough time and space to take action to avoid an accident.
5. Attractive: When dealing with possible dangers and needing to consider the abilities and behaviors of others, it is just as important to have others pay attention to you as it is for you to see them. Drivers need to signal clearly and in a timely manner to correctly communicate your intentions to others and wait for their response, otherwise do not rush forward.
Why are rear-enders worse off in a rear-end collision?There is something to be said for body layout
From the layout of the automobile body, most of the vehicles we see on the road are front-engined front-drive or front-engined rear-drive models. The vehicle's engine and transmission are installed in the front of the vehicle's engine compartment, the engine's cooling water tank, cooling air conditioning condenser and cooling fan are concentrated in the front of the vehicle's water tank frame, and relatively expensive headlights are also in the front part of the vehicle. For the rear part of the vehicle, the main components are only the rear bumper, rear bumper beam (a few vehicles with reduced equipment), rear taillights (usually less expensive than the headlights) and rear cover and other components. As you can see, the price of repairing the front of the car is much greater than the price of repairing the rear of the car. It certainly looks like a vehicle with front end damage is going to be a bit worse off in this perspective.
Driver's behavior leads to a change in the collision site
The next analysis of the driver's behavior: when an accident occurs, the front of the vehicle in the front of the driver in the emergency braking or normal stopping, the main observation is still the front of the driving environment, in the absence of other accidents occurring in the state of the vast majority of the vehicle is facing forward! The majority of the vehicles are facing forward without any other accidents. And most of the rear driving vehicles are because of a variety of reasons lead to the brake is not timely or completely too late to brake, most of the drivers in the accident before the occurrence of the accident is already can be foreseen to the upcoming rear-end accident, instinctively will be to the left or right to turn the direction, resulting in the rear of the vehicle will not be perpendicular to the vehicle in front of the main point of impact are centered in the left or right front, coupled with the role of inertia, many of the rear of the accident car left or right, the rear of the vehicle will not be able to hit the vehicle in front of the main impact point are concentrated in the left or right, plus inertia The role of many rear accident car left front wheel and the left rear wheel will be damaged to varying degrees.
Difficulty in repairing body deformation
Lastly, we still have to stand on the perspective of repair technology to explain to our partners: once the car body deformation and other problems, the later repair is almost impossible to restore to the original state. The body is a lot of parts of the fixed point, the body size once the problem, even if the other parts are using the new original parts are also nothing to make up for the late use of the process there will be a lot of small problems, it is still recommended to drive on the road safety first, do not simply think that the car broke down to repair it will be fine, the love of the car in some areas once the damage that is permanent loss.