The sport utility driver, he added, should also keep more distance between his vehicle and others to avoid having to maneuver abruptly, which could cause a rollover, and to compensate for the sport utility vehicle's inferior braking.
Yet the driver sees the cow from afar easily, and avoids hitting it, without even having to brake hard.
In the five years up to March this year, there were five deaths of people who were with a dog at the time of an accident, as well as 181 cases where train drivers had to brake to avoid a collision with people and dogs.
Almost every day, friends who cycled to the office would arrive with a story of how they'd had to brake to avoid a car because someone didn't quite see them, or how a wing mirror had caught their arm". A regular Boris bike user himself, Hollingworth decided to apply some of the techniques honed in his work to the issue of urban cycle safety.
Admittedly, there's a national motorway running past Mandela's peach-coloured, gated mansion, but drivers still often have to brake hard to avoid casual stray cattle (known locally as "Transkei traffic lights").
London cyclists swap horror stories of dysfunctional cycle routes that end without warning or maroon them on the wrong side of the road, though few can be more perilous than a new lane on Bethnal Green Road, which is blocked by a streetlight — anyone rash enough to use the lane has to brake sharply to avoid crashing into it.
I had trouble keeping in my lane on country roads, and I had to brake hard to avoid overcooking some corners.
At the start, I was almost alongside Heikki but then he slowed and I had to brake too to avoid a heavy crash.
It used to be exciting to fly there because the airport's runway was so short that planes had to brake very hard to avoid running off the end and down a cliff into the sea.
Experts say that by doing so you are crying wolf, and if you were to have to brake suddenly the tailgater may not realize you are actually stopping in time to avoid running into you.
