With July 4th – which marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence, just four days away, have you cemented your plans for the evening? Perhaps you’ll be among the reported 44.2 million Americans traveling 50 miles or more away from home to honor the red, white and blue? There are a number of July...
Category: Safe Driving
Save Lives! Prevent Distracted Driving!
The term ‘distracted driving’ is used to describe any activity that takes the driver’s attention away from the road. Behaviors such as smoking, using electronic devices, eating and drinking, programming navigational systems, and adjusting the audio or climate controls puts your life and the lives of others in danger. In 2015, distracted driving related crashes...
Car Emergency Kit Essentials
Imagine, you’re driving on a lonely, dark road when suddenly your car becomes difficult to control. Managing to safely ease the car to the side of the road, you turn on your hazards, and get out to investigate. If the problem is a flat tire, and you’re prepared with a well-stocked emergency kit as well...
Travel Safety Tips for the Holidays
from your friends at Hegarty-Haynes Insurance, Inc! The holiday season has officially arrived, and with it, the busiest travel season of the year. Many will hit the open road and skies over the course of the next month, because as we all know, no holiday would be complete without being in the company of friends...
Summer Road Trip Safety
Who doesn’t love road trips? Road tripping allows you to venture to areas unknown and meet new people along the way. With falling gas prices and summer sun, this time of year makes the perfect time to buckle up your family, in order to do embark on this one of a kind journey. Just think...
Don’t Text and Drive…Period
Don’t text and drive…period! You would think as grown adults, we’d know better than to text and drive, but yearly statistics prove otherwise. In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), texting and driving causes 1.3 million crashes each year. Texting and driving, however, isn’t the only bad habit drivers have. As part...
Holiday Travel Safety Tips
There’s so much to love about the holidays! Truly there is. There’s the smell of fresh cut evergreens. There’s the twinkling lights that illuminate our homes and streets. There’s the opportunity to sink out teeth into some tasty treats fresh out of the oven. Then there’s seeing our children’s face light up with excitement come...
Safe Driving Tips For Autumn Days
Top 3 Safe Driving Tips Autumn days arrive quickly, so quickly in fact that many don’t even realize it’s begun, yet it brings decreased daylight hours and increased inclement weather. Inclement weather that includes punishing winds, dust storms, and heavy rain fall – part of which is from the fact that monsoon season is still...