{"id":12078,"date":"2013-05-22T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2013-05-21T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:07:15","slug":"know-the-rules-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12078","title":{"rendered":"Know the rules of the road!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have already earned your driver&#8217;s license, you know what you&#8217;re doing, right?! Well-l-l-l-l-l, maybe we could all use a refresher once in a while. Who hasn&#8217;t seen something another driver is doing that &#8220;drives&#8221; us crazy? Or scares us? And reviewing the rules is easy to do, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.wisconsin.gov\/drivers\/drivers\/handbooks.htm\" title=\"Driver handbooks and manuals\" target=\"_blank\">driver handbooks and manuals<\/a>, and additional information about cell phones, bicycles, and roundabouts, are posted online by the Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation (DOT), including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.wisconsin.gov\/drivers\/drivers\/apply\/cycle-handbook.htm\" title=\"Wisconsin Motorcyclists' Handbook\" target=\"_blank\">Motorcyclists&#8217; Handbook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.wisconsin.gov\/drivers\/drivers\/apply\/handbook.htm\" title=\"Wisconsin Motorists' Handbook\" target=\"_blank\">Motorists&#8217; Handbook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some quiz questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>As you approach your exit on a roundabout, you should turn on your right turn signal. True or False?<\/li>\n<li>At night, if an approaching driver does not dim his\/her headlights, you may flash your high beams to let them know. True or false?<\/li>\n<li>At a FOUR-WAY stop, if two drivers come to the intersection at the same time, who goes first?<\/li>\n<li>At a FOUR-WAY stop, if the two drivers do not reach the intersection at the same time, who goes first?<\/li>\n<li>At an intersection with no stop signs, if two drivers approach it, who goes first?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not sure?  Or even if you are, please check the manual to see if you are correct! After all, the Wisconsin DOT&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.wisconsin.gov\/safety\/motorist\/crashfacts\/docs\/crashfacts.pdf\" title=\"2011 Wisconsin Traffic Crash Facts\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wisconsin Traffic Crash Facts<\/em><\/a> contains a highway safety clock that says there is one traffic crash every 4.7 minutes in Wisconsin. And &#8220;Fifty-five percent of all crashes occurred off the state highway and Interstate systems, on county trunk and local roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please drive safely and responsibly!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/traffic.jpg\" alt=\"images of traffic, stop signs, etc.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/federaldepository.jpg\" alt=\"FDLP logo\" \/> <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out <em>your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have already earned your driver&#8217;s license, you know what you&#8217;re doing, right?! Well-l-l-l-l-l, maybe we could all use a refresher once in a while. Who hasn&#8217;t seen something another driver is doing that &#8220;drives&#8221; us crazy? Or scares &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2768,35],"tags":[52161,52162,2292,783,52163,52160,938,7089],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-wisconsin","category-infogov","tag-drivers-handbook","tag-drivers-manual","tag-driving","tag-government-info","tag-motorcycles","tag-rules-of-the-road","tag-safety","tag-wisconsin-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12080,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}