As parents, you have a number of responsibilities towards your children. Safe driving with your children is also your responsibility. If you own your car then you are adding one more responsibility which is related to the safety of your children while they are in your latest car that you newly bought so need to follow the safety tips strictly.
Most of the parents sometimes become careless when in a hurry to reach the destination. Sometimes they drive their car at high speed and do not care for their children who are also sitting in the car. As a parent, you can not avoid the safety of your children while going for a long trip as you do not know what will be the road conditions? Secondly, it is difficult to assume what your child behaves when going on a new road trip?
Do you know that some children are phobic of high speed?
You can try these safety methods while may help you out while with your children on a long trip.
Drive Slowly
As you know the latest cars have immense power to bring your car at high speed within seconds. Therefore, you need to drive in a controlled manner as you do not know what emergency will come in your way and you need to apply the emergency brakes. Here, you may be safe as you are using the proper seat belts but have you thought of your children that what can be happened with them in this situation?
Definitely, if they are loosely sitting at the rear seats then they may collide with the backs of front seats or may collide with the roof of your latest car.
What do you think about that?
Yes, they can be injured seriously or may break their ribs if they collide with their chest side. It may be possible that they may fracture their internal bones which may pain long after their recovery.
If you want to avoid these fatalities, then it is recommended that while you sit in your car then firstly you should tie your children with the seat belts to avoid any fatality. If you are bringing the toddlers with you then never forget to use the child car seat as they are manufactured by keeping all the safety parameters.
But, do not forget to maintain the speed limit along with these precautions as your children are your loved ones.
Buy The Car Variant Having More Safety Features
If you are planning to buy the latest car in Indonesia then properly check out the safety features which suit your expectations as you are buying your car for your family. Nowadays, cars are coming with advanced safety features which warn you in an emergency. A child safety lock system is one of them where your child cannot open the door while sitting inside the car or in motion.
Keep Your Child In-Between The Rear Seat
It will be safer if you keep your child between the rear seats. It provides them extra safety cover in any type of emergency situation. Secondly, avoid keeping your child in the front seat as he may be in direct contact with any collision which may be dangerous for him.
Avoid Overtaking
When you find a blank highway then you used to overtake numbers of vehicles at one go but special care should be taken while with your children as they may be shocked with your speedy overtake. It imbalances their heartbeats and they may feel suffocated.
Secondly, it is not the rule that you overtake your front vehicles without any assumption especially when you are with your children. It has been seen that sometimes continuous overtaking may lead to weakening your stability and you may collide with the vehicle which is coming in front of you.
Yes, if it is necessary to overtake then you may overtake by your proper assumption and sense that can it be good to overtake at a particular situation? But, it will be good if you avoid overtaking while with your children. Rest is the driving experience that can help you in this situation.
Do Not Leave Your Children In Your Car
It has been seen that when you drive on highways of Indonesia then it may be possible that you may need to pack your food from any motel on that particular highway then bring your children with you. Never leave them alone in the car with your car keys as it might be possible that your children may be kidnapped.
Brakes Slowly
Avoid instant breaks as your children do not know its outcome as they sit in the car as their home. So, extra care is required while pressing your brake paddle and it requires expertise in driving.