Prepare before you drive:

• Check your tyre pressures
•  Adjust your mirrors
• Fill up your windscreen washer container
• Get a good nights sleep so you don't drive tired
• Plan your trip and schedule plenty of breaks with at least one every 1.5hours.

Take extra care driving:

• Turn on your headlights on dip to be seen
• Turn off your phone
• Keep your speeds down
• Allow plenty of following distance between your car and the car in front of you (use the two second rule)
• Be patient when overtaking and if possible wait for a passing lane
• If you are towing or travelling slowly pull over regularly to allow other traffic to pass.

The AA wishes all motorists an enjoyable weekend and a safe journey on the roads

For more information contact

Mike Noon
General Manager AA Motoring Affairs
New Zealand Automobile Association
T. +64 4 931 9984
M. +64 21 659 704
W. www.aa.co.nz

The New Zealand Automobile Association is an incorporated society with over one million members. It represents the interests of road users who collectively pay over $2 billion in taxes each year through fuels excise, road user charges and GST.