Today I’d like to share some advice for being a safer driver on the road. Having driven for almost 20 years now without any major accident (of course, I’ll have one tomorrow now) there have been really three major strategies that have kept me safe:
1) Keep your distance
2) Take turns slowly
3) Anticipate – Guess other driver’s intentions
If you limit distractions while at the wheel (no phones, no eating, no turning around to the passengers, no fiddeling with the GPS) adhering to these three very basic principles will make you a safer driver.

Another strategy I’m following comes from analyzing the common case – i.e. your daily commute. If you’re spending 70% of your annual driving on the same stretch of the road, it’s worth analyzing it. Try to think about where the hotspots for accidents are and be alert, when you pass them.
And then there will be the day where you still learn something new … (like yesterday, when that car in front of me slowed unexpectedly to make a legal U-turn, where I haven’t seen a car turning ever before – not in seven years! Anti-lock brakes are wonderful.)