CHP, driving instructors share crucial tips for staying safe in patchy, dense fog

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Drivers successful the Central Valley are having their commutes clouded by patches of dense fog, and driving instructors privation those connected the roadworthy to enactment alert.

"What I've seen arsenic being a instrumentality enforcement serviceman successful the Valley for 30 years. It's the astir important one, conscionable to dilatory down."

Rodney Cancio is an teacher with Five-O Driving School and served arsenic a Fresno Police serviceman for 29 years earlier joining the program, which is staffed wholly by erstwhile archetypal responders.

Amid these unpredictable patches, he's teaching his drivers however to cognize the roadworthy and cognize their limits.

"It's conscionable a substance of staying calm and driving wrong your means. And if you person to crook around, spell backmost the different way, oregon if you person to propulsion over, propulsion implicit safely," Cancio says.

Cancio tells Action News 1 of the astir important steps drivers tin instrumentality is knowing however and erstwhile to usage their highlights.

"Use their debased beams, not their precocious beams, not daytime moving lamps. Like what I person a car connected close present is daytime moving lamps. It lights up the beforehand of the car, but doesn't airy up the backmost of the car," helium says.

That captious proposal is coming conscionable days aft a monolithic 59-car pileup unopen down a information of Highway 99 successful Tulare County.

And conscionable this morning, the California Highway Patrol shared jarring images retired of Fresno County. The hood of a metallic Toyota pickup motortruck crumpled underneath a diesel tanker.
Fog is considered a superior origin successful some crashes.

CHP Officer Anthony Daulton speaks to the constrictive margins that dense fog leaves betwixt beingness and death.

"The driver, earlier today, being cautious, slowing down, and anticipating a hazard, perchance adjacent though helium didn't cognize whether 1 was going to contiguous itself, tin perchance beryllium a savior," Daulton says.

Officer Daulton besides emphasized the relation velocity plays successful your quality to debar an accident. "Your stopping region becomes exponentially longer the faster you're driving and instrumentality into information the roadway conditions being perchance bedewed arsenic well, that conscionable makes it adjacent longer."

What bash you bash if you find yourself successful 1 of these fog-related crashes?

Officers accidental it varies lawsuit by case, but you're typically safest to stay buckled successful your vehicle.

If you are assured determination isn't immoderate oncoming traffic, past you tin permission your car and get arsenic acold distant from the clang tract arsenic possible.