- Check your cars oil and air pressure regularly.
- Don’t let the fuel gauge go below a quarter of a tank.
- Don’t drink and drive. Don’t text and drive. Don’t eat and drive.
Just drive!
- Touch the car before handling a gas pump. Static electricity can ignite petroleum fumes.
- Lock the doors while pumping gas.
- NEVER leave a child or pet in the car alone—even if it’s “just for a minute.”
- Look both ways after the light turns green for someone running a “yellow” light. Sooner or later this simple habit will save your life.
- Where there’s a ball, there’s a boy. Hit the brakes immediately.
- Don’t swerve off the road to avoid an animal. Brake quickly but safely.
- Over 80 mph, you are aiming rather than steering a car.
- When backing a trailer, put one hand at the bottom of the steering wheel. Whichever way your hand goes, the trailer will follow.
- Have car keys in hand when approaching your vehicle in a parking lot. If accosted by a stranger, toss the keys under a car.
- When possible, keep one car length distance from the vehicle in front of you for every 10 mph of speed
- When road rage threatens, BREATHE. Deep breath in. Hold. Deep breath out. Hold. Let it go.
- Let Jesus take the wheel.