By: Dayna Roselli
Someone posted a comment on my blog about something I recently covered. It’s called “due care.”
What it means is that drivers must use care when driving, and if they don’t… they can be responsible for breaking the law or the cause of an accident.
I recently went out with the North Las Vegas Police and watched them give out warnings to drivers at the intersection of Cheyenne & Losee. It was unbelievable!! Laws broken every minute, literally! Many of them blamed on drivers not using due care.
For example:
Yes, you can use the shoulder area if the road is wide enough and there is not a painted line… BUT you can’t go speeding southbound down Losee passing everyone as you try to get to the light at Cheyenne. You must use due care. Take it slow, watch for other vehicles and drive defensively. That– is due care.
If you were to look up due care it would say: the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances.
Shouldn’t we all use Due Care? I think it would make our roads much safer 
Dayna, let’s sum this up in small, easy to understand words: Due Care = Common Sense… unfortunately Common Sense isn’t so common anymore…
The next time you’re sitting behind the wheel of your car and you see someone driving in such a way that makes you call them an idiot, ask yourself… “have I ever done that?” If the answer is “yes”, then you’ve probably violated Due Care.
Comment by James — May 19, 2008 @ 2:47 am