Safe Overtaking Experience for New Drivers
(Baonghean.vn) - Overtaking other vehicles while driving on the road is one of the difficult and complicated skills, requiring a lot of experience. So how to overtake a vehicle properly, legally and safely? The useful information below will help you improve your overtaking skills on the road.
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Focus, choose the right time
Just one wrong detail or one wrong turn is enough to make you suffer many unfortunate consequences. Once you have decided to overtake the car in front, you should concentrate highly, ready to anticipate all situations that may occur.
In addition, choosing the right time to overtake is also very important, because no matter when you want to overtake, the possibility of hitting the person opposite is easy to happen. It is best to overtake when the traffic is light enough, the distance between vehicles on the road is stable.
Observe the directions carefully.
After carefully observing the lane and the direction of traffic, if you feel it is safe enough to pass, signal with your turn signal so that the vehicles in front and behind can see and handle it promptly. Usually, you should only change lanes when the other driver gives you permission.
Conditions for overtaking on the left
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As a general rule, when overtaking, vehicles must overtake on the left and must ensure the following conditions:
Vehicles requesting to overtake must signal with lights or horns; in urban areas and densely populated areas from 10pm to 5am, they may only signal with lights.
The vehicle requesting to overtake may only overtake when there are no obstacles ahead, no oncoming vehicles on the road section intended for overtaking, the vehicle in front has not signaled to overtake another vehicle and has moved to the right.
When a vehicle requests to overtake, if safe, the driver of the vehicle in front must reduce speed, move close to the right side of the roadway until the vehicle behind has passed, and must not cause obstacles for the vehicle requesting to overtake.
Conditions for overtaking on the right
In addition to the above conditions, only in the following cases are traffic participants allowed to overtake vehicles on the right:
When the vehicle in front has a left turn signal or is turning left.
When the tram is running in the middle of the road.
When a special vehicle is working on the road and cannot pass on the left.
Decide decisively and move quickly
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Once you have signaled to overtake and the vehicle in front allows you to overtake, you need to overtake quickly, accelerating and steering steadily. Do not hesitate or overtake indecisively because it will be very dangerous if there is a large vehicle coming from the opposite direction.
* Places where you should absolutely not overtake
Overtaking is not always possible when you want to, there are some roads where you should be extremely careful and absolutely should not overtake because it is very dangerous such as:
- Do not overtake on bridges where there is only one lane.
- Do not overtake at points with limited visibility (curves, roundabouts, etc.)
- Intersections, crossroads, road intersections, road-rail intersections.
- Do not overtake in weather conditions that do not ensure safe overtaking or in bad road conditions.
