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Wireless Phone "Safety Tips"
Below are safety tips to follow while driving and using a wireless phone
which should be easy to remember:
1. Get to know your wireless phone and its features such as speed dial
and redial. Carefully read your instruction manual and learn to take
advantage of valuable features most phones offer, including
automatic redial and memory. Also, work to memorize the phone
keypad so you can use the speed dial function without taking your
attention off the road.
2. When available, use a hands free device. A number of hands free
wireless phone accessories are readily available today. Whether you
choose an installed mounted device for your wireless phone or a
speaker phone accessory, take advantage of these devices if
available to you.
3. Position your wireless phone within easy reach. Make sure you
place your wireless phone within easy reach and where you can
grab it without removing your eyes from the road. If you get an
incoming call at an inconvenient time, if possible, let your voice
mail answer it for you.
4. Suspend conversations during hazardous driving conditions or
situations. Let the person you are speaking with know you are
driving; if necessary, suspend the call in heavy traffic or hazardous
weather conditions. Rain, sleet, snow and ice can be hazardous, but
so is heavy traffic. As a driver, your first responsibility is to pay
attention to the road.
5. Do not take notes or look up phone numbers while driving. If you
are reading an address book or business card, or writing a "to do"
list while driving a car, you are not watching where you are going.
It's common sense. Don't get caught in a dangerous situation
because you are reading or writing and not paying attention to the
road or nearby vehicles.
6. Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; if possible, place calls when you
are not moving or before pulling into traffic. Try to plan your calls
before you begin your trip or attempt to coincide your calls with
times you may be stopped at a stop sign, red light or otherwise
stationary. But if you need to dial while driving, follow this simple
tip-dial only a few numbers, check the road and your mirrors, then
continue.
7. Do not engage in stressful or emotional conversations that may be
distracting. Stressful or emotional conversations and driving do not
mix-they are distracting and even dangerous when you are behind
the wheel of a car. Make people you are talking with aware you are
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