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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
The international defensive driver training company I worked for taught that rear crashes are actually one of the "easier" ones to avoid, and students were drilled with numerous strategies for doing so.
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I would like to know how, because I don't see how either of the ones I had could have been avoided by anything I could have done.
1) Left turn lane off a busy 4-lane highway, I'm last of about 10 cars waiting, stopped behind a large pickup. Guy coming up behind has his attention on the pickup, crunches me.
2) Freeway interchange, I move into the exit lane, traffic ahead slows to a stop. I do too (or I would have hit the guy in front), guy behind me doesn't.
So how do I avoid either of those? Or indeed, the classic stopped at the red light, idiot behind talking on cell and doesn't notice the light or the stopped cars?