LPT When making a left turn across oncoming traffic, never start to turn the wheel until it’s clear to go. If your wheels are turned and somebody rear ends you, you’re going straight into oncoming traffic. submitted by /u/bluewhalebluejay

LPT: Whenever you have to hastily abandon an idle vehicle on railroad tracks due to an oncoming train, move in a direction TOWARDS the oncoming train when you get out. You’ll want to clear away from the tracks altogether (perpendicularly) as much as possible as well, of course. The common instinct when fleeing the vehicle is to run away from (i.e. in the traveling direction of) the train as it approaches, however 1) the train will catch up to you in that direction anyway and most importantly 2) when it collide…