Car Accidents

Usage of Hazard Lights During Rainy Season

Usage of Hazard Lights During Rainy Season

Hazard lights are pair of lights that usually doesn’t come in the car itself and requires to be installed in most countries, but recent cars has this feature. It is described as combination of flashing red and orange lights wherein its purpose is to warn incoming drivers that your car turned off unexpectedly or has slowed down due to few factors.
Hazard lights provide a significant easy to receive warning towards other road user that your vehicle has stumbled few issues and is unable to move and might be an obstacle on the road, it is one way to establish communication and avoid misunderstanding which may lead to road rage and fighting over yielding the way and in addition, people surrounding the disabled vehicle may help you as well to avoid inconvenience.
When should Hazard Lights must be used?   
Aside from having a mechanical error occuring with your car, there are other ways to utilize hazard lights since it’s main purpose is to alert other drivers right? Here are some other scenario when to apply the safety feature of an hazard light:
  • Police is requiring your attention and needs you to pull overWhen you were being chased by a police car and you have an intuition that they need something to be cleared from you, before pulling over on the road side, you should use hazard lights to properly give notice to other cars following you that you are going to pull over and it must be done simultaneously with making a turn towards the road side.
  • You were involved in a car accidentIf you were bumped by another car and is still managable to pull over, use hazard lights to notice other driver that there is an emergency going on to ask for help. Even when you can’t manage to pull over, using hazard lights while amidst road can still help and aid confusion from other road users behind you that you were involved in an accident.

Should you use hazard lights during rainy or foggy weather?

Some states in U.S. discourages the use of hazard lights unless in scenarios mentioned above and alikes, people tend to use their respective hazard lights during rainy season or whenever that road has low visibility in intention to warn other drivers that they are their and for authorities, it may tend to raise concern and anxiety among other road users who have witnessed or observed the hazard lights which makes an misunderstanding or a negative impact to their driving experience.

Mainly, this results in confusion about the current condition of the moving vehicle while using hazard lights. Despite authorities’ effort to minimize and discourage the use of hazard lights, the scene of seeing drivers using their hazard lights during low visibility times is still evident and numbers are keep increasing and this may lead to some accidents and misunderstanding and some states established a penalty system regarding to invalid usage of hazard lights too which minimizes the tendency of drivers to be disobedient.

Ryan Injury Lawyers

If ever one of your family members or closests friend has been involved in an accident which is said to be related to illegal usage of hazard lights who have sustained either minor or significant injuries and even a possible disability because of the driver 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.

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