If your vehicle's windshield wipers suddenly fail during a heavy rainstorm, in what sequence should you perform the following steps to safely bring your vehicle to a stop?
- 1Turn on your hazard warning lights and slow down gradually without slamming on the brakes.
- 2Look through the side windows or cleared edges of the windshield to track road markings and stay in your lane.
- 3Steer carefully onto the right shoulder or off the roadway to a safe parking location.
- 4Bring the vehicle to a complete stop and keep hazard lights on until conditions improve or assistance arrives.
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The proper emergency response sequence is: first turn on hazard lights and reduce speed, second use side windows to track lane markings, third steer safely onto the shoulder, and finally come to a complete stop off the road with hazard lights active.
When windshield wipers fail during heavy rain, safety requires an immediate reduction in speed combined with hazard warning lights to signal emergency status. Next, the driver must reference side windows and lane lines to locate the shoulder. Steering carefully off the road comes third, followed by coming to a complete stop on the shoulder with hazard lights remaining on.
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Windshield wiper failure emergency procedure