DKTMAINTAIN SPACE BEHIND YOU
It is difficult to maintain a crash avoidance space behind you, as another driver or rider controls the space.
If a vehicle behind is travelling too closely, slow down slightly to increase the space you have in front of you.
This will enable you to brake more gradually if you spot a hazard in front, which will enable the following vehicle more time to stop as well.
REDUCE SPEED
slow down if you do not have a clear view of the road ahead. Situations where your vision may be reduced include:
• Blind corners.
• Blocked intersections.
• Hills and Crest
• Poor weather conditions
• Blind corners.
Slow down if you cannot see five seconds ahead.
To calculate five-second vision in a curve, pick a fixed point in the oncoming lane that has just come into view and start a count ‘one thousand and one, one thousand and two... one thousand and five’.
If you reach the point before five seconds you are riding too fast for the available vision.