How to turn a car effectively

(Baonghean.vn) - Turning a car around, especially in the city during rush hour, is not simple. Just a small mistake by the driver can cause traffic jams, affecting many people.

Turning a car seems simple and a normal skill when driving a vehicle. However, if the driver is not aware and does not observe the traffic situation on the road, it will easily lead to traffic jams.

The following tips will help you avoid getting unpleasant looks from others and putting yourself in a difficult situation.

Only turn around in places where conditions permit.

Cars are usually only allowed and should make U-turns at intersections, places without signs prohibiting U-turns, open three-way and four-way intersections, and wide corners. When making U-turns in the spaces between medians, drivers need to pay attention, to guard against vehicles rushing in from the opposite lane.

In case you have to turn around on a road without a median strip, you must pay special attention to vehicles coming from all directions. In addition, you need to pay attention, you are only allowed to turn around on sections with broken lines, not on sections with solid lines.

On narrow roads, you need to find turning points with alleys on the opposite lane to avoid having to move forward and backward too much, avoiding traffic jams.

Don’t be afraid to go past the place you want to turn around if the conditions are not right for you to do so. Having to hesitate and struggle to turn around in an inappropriate place will be much more difficult and costly than going a few hundred meters further to a suitable place to turn around.

Turning technique

- Turning at intersections:When you want to turn around at an intersection, you need to observe and understand the traffic situation there. Next, you need to drive close to the leftmost lane, carefully observe the rearview mirror, turn on the left turn signal about 15m in advance and gradually reduce the speed so that the vehicles behind are not suddenly cornered. When you have passed the median strip, stop the car and turn the steering wheel completely before turning. This way of turning the car will help your car narrow the corner as much as possible and limit the impact on the traffic of vehicles coming from the opposite direction.

In case the road is too crowded, drive slowly to stop at red lights and turn around when the light turns green to avoid affecting other vehicles in all directions and causing traffic jams.

- Turning the car around on a road with a hard median strip:Just like at an intersection, when you want to make a U-turn at a road with a hard median strip, you also need to turn on your signal and move close to the outermost lane before reaching the U-turn point.

When the front of the car just enters the opposite lane, you should stop and observe to avoid crashing into vehicles near you, and at the same time help vehicles traveling in the opposite direction easily recognize your car and adjust their speed in time. After completing the U-turn, you should continue to move in the rightmost lane of the car for a while before accelerating and re-entering the left lane.

- Turning on a narrow road without a hard divider:When turning around on a narrow road, drivers will encounter situations where motorbikes will still swerve and overtake from the left even though they are driving close to the center of the road. In addition, if you encroach too far to the left, the remaining road will likely not be enough for you to turn around. Therefore, if you find the road too narrow, it is best to move your vehicle to the nearest intersection to turn around.

You should turn on the turn signal about 20m in advance and slow down before turning the car. Then, you should stop completely for about 2 seconds to steer in place and then move forward to turn the car./.

Ngoc Anh

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