How to Deal With a Tailgater

How to Deal With a Tailgater In road, there are various risks that a driver and vehicle occupants will be exposed to and these risks are caused by multiple factors. Usually these factors are generally identified as mechanical errors, environmental factors, and lastly, human errors. All of these factors are deal wide range of damage which commonly results in sustenance of injuries and even death. Human errors have high fatality as the driver itself is the cause of the accident, some examples are drunk driving, drugged driving, aggressive driving, and tail gating. In this blog, we are going to discuss how to deal with a tailgater as it is a dangerous road behavior which has tolled deaths that contributed major numbers in terms of annual death counts caused by car accidents in general. What is Tailgating? According to a data gathered by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 2017, 14 out of every 10,000 drivers in U.S. have a traffic citation for tailgating. 33% of car accidents that year were rear-end impacts which probably stemmed from tailgating. Tailgating is a risky road behavior of following a car behind at relatively close distance, on either low or high speed pacing. It roots from various reasons such as simply exists due to hobby, anger and frustrations developed during a traffic congestion, and other personal reasons. One common reason is that they tailgate as the front driver might be driving too slow and the tailgater wants to check if there are problems occurring in that specific vehicle but regardless reasons they have, tailgating is dangerous and should be discouraged and tailgaters are putting themselves as well as the driver in front of them in danger.   How to Deal With a Tailgater There are few ways to deal with a tailgater and in this list, we have collect sound steps to do so. Stay Calm  Put negative emotions such as anger aside while dealing with a tailgater to help yourself formulate a solution to deal with the situation and avoid making impulsive actions such as retaliations and resorting to violence. Try to Drive to Road Side When driving in single lane, try to slowly pull over and observe if the tailgater is still following you and if you are situated in multi-lane highways, signal and carefully move to lane on your right when free and observe if the tailgater is still after you. Try to create Distance with the Tailgater Even if those tailgaters are the one who cause inconvenience, try to compensate for the situation by creating distance with the tailgater by driving at a consistent speed as this allows you to have a longer braking distance. Ryan LLP  If ever one of your family members or closests friend has been involved in an accident who have sustained either minor or significant injuries and even a possible case of amputation because of possibly an animal or livestock owner has shown apparent negligence and recklessness and caused an accident and render the victim to have life-threatening injuries and condition, you can always refer help from a professional experienced injury lawyer to smoothen things out as your hired lawyers can help you decide from their factual and legal advices and can help you sort things out legally rather than settling over cash offer without damage calculation and future's regards. Ryan LLP is an Ohio based injury lawyer that represents victims of personal injury caused by car accidents, medical malpractice due to medical professional's negligence, and even wrongful death against large companies, agencies and even individuals. We have 40 years of experience doing our service in this field and evidently successful with our civil litigations. Call our office now for free legal consultation.