{"id":1790,"date":"2015-10-12T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2020-09-20T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T04:49:55","slug":"why-turning-your-wheels-at-an-intersection-can-be-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/why-turning-your-wheels-at-an-intersection-can-be-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Why turning your wheels at an intersection can be dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we&#8217;re tempted to turn our wheels while waiting to turn at an intersection and that, as you will see in the video below, is a particularly bad idea. The dual dashcam video shows the driver being hit from behind and, because the vehicle&#8217;s wheels are turned, propelled into the opposing lane where a large truck is bearing down at speed. It could have been so much worse &#8211; the truck just makes a glancing blow on the car as opposed to a full head-on collision &#8211; but it illustrates really clearly why you should always wait at an intersection with your wheels facing forward (or in the direction of your lane).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dashcam Crash\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tADvFcj7Cm4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we&#8217;re tempted to turn our wheels while waiting to turn at an intersection and that, as you will see in the video below, is a particularly bad idea. The dual dashcam video shows the driver being hit from behind<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/why-turning-your-wheels-at-an-intersection-can-be-dangerous\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-car","category-heavy-vehicle","tag-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}