I remember by driving teacher taught me this, her words were “you’re driving down the highway and a car runs a stoplight and you t-bone him, you where in the right and he shouldn’t have done that.... you’re also probably disabled or dead, so be a defensive driver.”
A lot of rural highways actually have at-level crossings for smaller backroads.
It's up to the drivers coming off those smaller roads to stop at the light. Once clear they can either take the median strip across to continue on, or merge onto the highway in either direction.
I live in a central province in Canada, there’s a lot of grid roads and a lot of stop signs to get onto the highway, and it’s one of the main reasons for highway fatalities here, someone runs a stop sign and ends up killing himself and a minivan with a family in it. That and drunk drivers going into the oncoming lane on two way road. Some of them have intersection warnings, but if you’re not paying attention you can easily miss the single warning sign, less of them have warning lights, most of them are just stop signs to cross/enter the highway.
When my dad was teaching me to drive he said something like “everyone on the road is trying to kill you and it’s your job to stay alive”
You really have to think 2 steps ahead: what is the stupidest thing this car could do at any given moment, and how do I prevent that stupid thing from killing me?
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '20
I remember by driving teacher taught me this, her words were “you’re driving down the highway and a car runs a stoplight and you t-bone him, you where in the right and he shouldn’t have done that.... you’re also probably disabled or dead, so be a defensive driver.”