PERRY COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) – Officials with AAA Bluegrass provided some safety tips to remind folks out on the road.
Lori Weaver Hawkins said if you are a driving and come into contact with a road rage driver, you should give them distance and not interact with them.
“Don’t take the bait. Don’t make any eye contact and don’t offer any gestures or anything like that. Offer no response,” she said. “That is your best bet when you are confronted with an aggressive driver.“
Hawkins suggests if the driver does not go on their way, to stop at a safe location or call police.
She said it is important not to let drivers with rage follow you to your home.
Hawkins also has safety tips for parents dealing with car seats.
Child restrains of any type, car seat or booster seat, can reduce fatalities by 71 percent for infants younger than one year old and 54 percent for children that are one to four years old.
Hawkins said the consequences were deadly for kids who were not properly restrained.
“Nearly 4 in 10, that is 37 percent of kids ages 7 to 11 who are killed in a car crash were not completely restrained. They were completely unrestrained rather.”
Another topic Hawkins has advice for is driving in the dark.
With daylight getting shorter, those on the roadsides are at risk.
It is important for drivers to watch out for workers or vehicles on roadsides during the dark.
“More than 75 percent of all road side deaths occur after dark. It’s very important that we are mindful of that and realize we don’t have the visibility after dark that we do in the broad daylight.“
Kentucky does enforce the ‘Slow Down, Move Over’ law. This law requires drivers to slow down and move over when they approach a vehicle with flashing lights on the side of the road including emergency, public safety, towing and even disabled vehicles with hazard signals.
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