Video Library: Defensive Driving

Avoiding Collisions
Backing Safely
Defensive Driving: Prepared for the Worst
Defensive Driving Tactics
Distracted Driving: At What Cost
Drive to Be the Best
Driving Safety: When You Least Expect It
Experience Speaking: Adverse Weather
Experience Speaking: Backing
Experience Speaking: Rear-end Collisions
Freeway Driving
Highway Work Zone Safety: the Basics
Impaired and Distracted Driving
Low Visibility and Driving
Modern Technology and Driving
Night Driving
Parking Safely
Preventing Road Rage
Reduce Your Risk
Road Rage Off Ramp: The Psychology
Sharing the Road With Big Trucks
Space Invaders
Ten Tips for Truckers and the Environment
There Are Choices
Transport Trailer Safety
The Ultimate Driving Challenge
Valvoline National Driving Test
Valvoline National Driving Test Volume II

  • Avoiding Collisions
    #AV001, #AV002 (16 min. 1992)

    Driving Safety
    Challenges teenagers to reevaluate their driving habits by examining four areas of concern that are key to survival in these high-risk driving years: speeding, night driving, safety belt use, and drinking and driving
  • Backing Safely
    #BA007 & #BA008(12 min. 1995)

    Driving Safety
    Backing is the cause of a disproportionate number of collisions.
    • Tips to avoid backing
    • Specific steps for a safe back-up
    • Backing with a helper
    • Backing with a trailer
  • The Blindfold Effect
    #BL002 (17 min. 1997)

    Driving Safety
    This interactive video features three unforgettable crashes any of us could experience. At pause points, viewers will identify the factors they feel contributed to each crash. Then, practical techniques to help us prevent these collisions are explained.
  • Defensive Driving: Prepared for the Worst
    #DE004 (18 min. 1996)

    Driving Safety
    In this video we cover the conditions which can create hazardous driving, including:
    • Fog
    • Snow and ice
    • Rain
    • Night driving
    • Breakdowns
    • Additional hazards
    • Personal security
  • Defensive Driving Tactics
    #DE003 (16 min. 1993)

    Driving Safety
    This program explains that defensive drivers are always aware of traffic conditions, vehicles and pedestrians. Aggressive drivers are shown to be hurried, distracted and overconfident. Their behavior puts themselves and others at risk. Other types of drivers to watch out for are portrayed as well: inattentive drivers, fatigued drivers and most dangerous of all—drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
  • Distracted Driving: At What Cost
    #DE000—VHS #DE001—DVD (16 min. 2006)

    Driving Safety
    The video includes a two car crash that is investigated and shows how each driver was distracted leading up to the crash. It also includes an interview with a woman who was severely injured in a crash caused by a distracting cell phone conversation. Her parents also talk about how their entire family's lives were changed by the crash.
  • Drive to Be the Best
    #DR004 (21 min. 1994)

    Driving Safety
    This program informs employees and supervisors about the roles attitude and behavior have in preventing accidents on the highway. It introduces a series of driving strategies and techniques that can help them be better drivers.
  • Driving Safety: When You Least Expect It
    #DR005 (19 min. 1995)

    Driving Safety
    A wide variety of safe driving skills and procedures are demon-strated in a way that allows every viewer to absorb the motiva-tional message. Stresses defensive driving attitude as well as practicing defensive driving techniques. Dramatic accidents are executed by professional stunt drivers.
  • Experience Speaking: Adverse Weather
    #EX003 (8 min. 2000)

    Driving
    Adverse weather is unpredictable, uncontrollable and can change without a moments notice. When weather becomes a hazard for professional drivers, it's their responsibility to use good judgement and be prepared.
  • Experience Speaking: Backing
    #EX001 (7 min. 2000)

    Driving
    Backing accidents happen. They shouldn't however, because they are virtually always preventable.
  • Experience Speaking: Rear-end Collisions
    #EX002 (7 min. 2000)

    Driving
    Rear end collisions are among the most costly and potentially life-threatening of all accidents involving tractor-trailers.
  • Freeway Driving
    #FR016 (8 min. 1994)

    Driving Safety
    Freeways demand quicker thinking than conventional roadways! This video shows how to merge onto a multilane highway smoothly and decisively, how to handle weave lanes (lanes used as both entrance and exit lanes) and how to exit.
  • Highway Work Zone Safety: the Basics
    #HI001 (15 min. 1994)

    Driving Safety
    This video program will help your employees understand and comply with MUTCD and learn what it takes to keep themselves, drivers and pedestrians safe.
    • Being safety conscious
    • Traffic control devices
    • Slowing down traffic
    • Detours and closures
    • Communication
  • Impaired and Distracted Driving
    #IM001 (60 min. 2002)

    Driving
    Victims and offenders talk about the impact their accidents had on their lives. Good for group discussion meetings.
  • Low Visibility and Driving
    #LO008 (16 min. 1993)

    Driving Safety
    This video covers and explains precautions to take for low visibility in different conditions for driving safely.
  • Modern Technology and Driving
    #MO001 & #MO002 (18 min. 1993)

    Driving Safety
    This program covers the modern technologies that everyone should be aware of for driver and passenger safety. Includes airbags, cruise control, seatbelts, anti-lock brake system, car phones, audio sound system and 4-wheel drive.
  • Night Driving
    #NI001 (8 min. 1994)

    Driving Safety
    Demonstrates how darkness limits drivers' vision. Includes tips to keep your car in shape for night driving. Discusses the biggest problems drivers experience at night and how they must adjust their driving habits.
  • Parking Safely
    #PA001 & #PA002 (14 min. 1995)

    Driving Safety
    Parking can be just as hazardous as driving in traffic, since many drivers and pedestrians disregard all normal traffic laws once they arrive in a parking area. This video is designed to refresh even experienced drivers' parking skills, including:
    • Following basic rules of the road
    • Scanning for hazards
    • Covering the brake
    • Sharing the roadway with pedestrians
    • Compensating for blind spots
    • Staying within designated parking lanes
    • Positioning the vehicle within a space
    • Backing the vehicle
    • Personal safety considerations
    • Choosing a "smart" parking location
  • Preventing Road Rage
    #RO002 (20 min. 1998)

    Driving Safety
    Violent aggressive driving, or road rage, is a growing public concern. This educational video addresses that concern by teaching viewers how to avoid offending other drivers, manage their own anger and disengage from an angry encounter.
  • Reduce Your Risk
    #RE001 & #RE002 (15 min. 1993)

    Driving Safety, Off-the-Job
    This video discusses your personal safety and the techniques of preventing carjacking.
  • Road Rage Off Ramp: The Psychology
    #RO010 (13 min. 1999)

    Driving Safety
    A road trip of the mind and the senses. Road Rage if the epidemic of our time. As the world becomes more populated, people are getting angrier especially in their cars. Learn how not to be a mouse in the maze. How to think about the consequences of your actions.
  • Sharing the Road With Big Trucks #SH002 (15 min. 1994)
    Driving Safety
    This video is about cooperation between drivers of passenger cars and drivers of big trucks using the same highways. This video also shows what it's like to drive an 18-wheeler in mixed traffic from the trucker's point of view. Also included are blind spots, stopping distance and drafting.
  • Space Invaders
    #SP017 (8 min. 1991)

    Driving Safety
    Space Invaders is a brief, information-packed video for all profes-sional drivers. The video reviews the key concepts of judging safe driving distances between vehicles.
  • Ten Tips for Truckers and the Environment
    #TR001 (18 min. 1994)

    Driving Safety
    Covers fuel conservation techniques, smoke emissions, truck washing, spills, hazardous waste and recycling. Suitable for drivers, mechanics, office workers and management.
  • There Are Choices
    #TH012 (19 min. 1989)

    Driving Safety
    Narrated by Pat Summerall, this video explores the impact of attitudes and emotions on behavior behind the wheel, whether on or off the job. It raises awareness that we become accident prone when subject to the mood of the moment. Most importantly, the solution is also illustrated: taking a moment before driving for reflective self-awareness by putting your attitudes and emotions in order.
  • Transport Trailer Safety
    #TR002 (24 min. 1995)

    Occupational, Driving Safety
    This video is designed to appeal to owners of all types of equip-ment transport trailers. Safe loading and attachment of tie-downs, chains and binders on a wide variety of equipment are discussed. Also includes tips for safe transport in varying traffic conditions, on all types of roads and in all types of weather. Interviews with professional equipment haulers help your employees learn from the real-life experiences of others.
  • The Ultimate Driving Challenge
    #UL001, #UL002 (30 min. 1994)

    Driving Safety
    This educational program puts the audience in the driver's seat to test their reactions to 20 specific driving situations. Hosts Craig T. Nelson and Paula Zahn introduce questions designed to test road safety knowledge and provide helpful information for avoiding accidents and minimizing damage and injury. Other celebrities providing support include Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Diedre Hall and Barbara Mandrell.
  • Valvoline National Driving Test
    #VA016 (45 min. 1989)

    Driving Safety
    This program, hosted by Christopher Reeve, uses state-of-the-art camera technology to put you in the driver's seat. The Valvoline National Driving Test tests your knowledge of traffic rules and vehicle safety, emphasizing defensive driving techniques, rules of the road and basic mechanical know-how.
  • Valvoline National Driving Test Volume II
    #VA017 (48 min. 1990)

    Driving Safety
    The test that keeps you from becoming a statistic. Do you know how to avoid a head on collision? When you don't have the right-of- way? How to gain control of a skidding car? Hosted by Robert Urich with guests Danny Glover, Barbara Mandrell, Rue McClanahan, Joan Rivers, William Shatner and many others.
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