Watch your lane

If you have spent any time in the military, you have heard the term “watch your lane.” It means keeping your eye on your target on the rifle range. In the civilian world, I’m referring to the lane you’re watching while driving in it. Watching your lane will help you get home safely.

Over the years, I’ve covered a lot of crashes that have dealt with vehicles going off the roadway. We even have a statute that covers this problem: Failed to drive in designated lane. So why is this such a problem for drivers?

It’s a cumulative problem that has a lot of parts to it but is actually very easy to explain. There are many reasons drivers will either drive out of their lane or hit something in their lane. We’ll talk about some of them in this article, but each one is tied to driver attention.

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