Use your headlights properly to avoid car accident compensation claims

Have you ever been driving along on a dark evening and had the full beam of another driver's headlights shine directly in your eyes? Not only does it temporarily blind you, it also makes you automatically look away from the road, heightening your risk of having a road accident for which you need to claim car accident compensation.

Headlight positions
There are quite rightly laws in place to make sure that your headlight beam is positioned correctly and prevent other drivers from being dazzled. As a rule lights on high beam should:

• Not be higher than the height of the lights from the ground
• Be slightly to the left of centre and in a dipped position
• Be cut off clearly to the left and down

Your owner's manual may not necessarily give instructions for adjusting your headlights so it may be easier to take your car to a garage that has the right equipment to do this quickly and easily.

Headlights and night driving
When driving at night on country lanes and other unlit or poorly lit roads you are permitted to use your headlights at full beam. However, these must be dipped when oncoming traffic approaches.

It is even more vital that you don't tailgate the car in front of you at night as this could not only cause you to smash straight into the back of them were they to break suddenly, but your headlight beam will also fall short of its rear, reducing your visibility and increasing your risk of having a car accident.

Headlights and fog
Remember to drive with dipped headlights, but not full beam, when it is foggy. This is because the light will be reflected from the fog particles and could temporarily blind the driver and lead to a personal injury inducing collision. When visibility reaches less than 90 metres you should switch to your fog lamps to enable you to see the road ahead and avoid causing a car crash.

Headlights and driving abroad
In order to avoid breaking the law and having car accident compensation claims made against you abroad you should invest in headlight beam benders. If you take you car to a country which drives on the right hand side of the road, such as France, then your headlights will shine directly into the faces of oncoming traffic.

Headlight adaptors will convert your beam to shine to the opposite side of the road and create a more pleasant driving experience for you and your fellow motorists.

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