[TITLE: HOW TO TURN LEFT WITHOUT PRESSURE TO HURRY UP]
Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about
left-hand turns and a supplemental to left-hand turns to keep you out of
trouble. Now just before we started here, be sure to hit that subscribe button..
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get instant notification when I get the videos up for you. Now left-hand turns:
I had a comment from wakemeup456 and he explained a traffic crash
that he had at a complex intersection while conducting a left-hand turn. And
left-hand turns for new drivers are probably the hardest thing to learn, next
to parallel parking, which is evident by the number of views that my parallel
parking video has gotten. And I'll put a card up in the corner for you on that
video. But left-hand turns involve a great deal of risk because you are
crossing oncoming traffic. And it is difficult to judge the gap. As well,
there's a lot of social pressure. Because as I've talked about again and again,
driving is a social activity and you are interacting with other drivers. The
oddity about the social activity of driving is is that everyone is encased in
this metal box that's on wheels, and it moves. So what happens for new drivers is
that you get into the intersection and the light goes yellow. And you have to
clear the intersection. Now before you clear the intersection, you have to
ensure that the oncoming traffic is coming to a stop. Because if it's not
coming to a stop or charging the yellow light, as often happens, and you make your
left-hand turn, you're gonna turn into that oncoming traffic and be involved in
a crash. And it's difficult because there's a lot of pressure--peer pressure--
because of the social pressure to "hurry up" and get going. And get out of the
intersection before the cross traffic light changes, and you are stuck in the
intersection. Now one of the things you've got to know and one of the things
that you really have to hang on to is "you own the intersection." So do not
proceed through your left-hand turn until you're absolutely sure that that
oncoming traffic has stopped. Because if you go, you're going to risk a crash as
wakemeup456 was involved in a crash because he got pressured by peer
pressure and other drivers on the roadway and went when there wasn't
sufficient gap. So know that when the light goes yellow you own the
intersection. Do not proceed until that intersection clears and the oncoming
traffic - you are absolutely sure that it has stopped.
That way it'll keep you out of trouble, particularly as a new driver. Question
for my smart drivers: have you been involved in a crash on a left-hand turn?
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[OUTRO - OUTAKES OF VEHICLES TURNING ON A YELLOW LIGHT AT A COMPLEX INTERSECTION]