Tailgating another vehicle is unsafe and illegal. Many rear-end collisions are caused by drivers following too close to the vehicle in front of them. The rules state that a driver must keep sufficient distance from the vehicle in front in order to stop safely and avoid a collision. Drivers should allow a minimum two seconds’ gap between their vehicle and the one ahead. At sixty kilometres an hour, this equates to thirty-three metres; at a hundred it equates to fifty-five metres. More distance is needed to safely stop in rain or poor visibility.
‘More distance is needed to safely stop in rain or poor visibility.’ We can infer from this that:
- people drive faster in rain and poor visibility.
- the writer is merely calculating on the safe side.
- braking is more hazardous in rain and poor visibility.
- the road rules state that this must be so.
