Sentences with phrase «take evasive»

To support her claim against the restaurant, Madrid argued that «Sanchez's blood - alcohol level, which exceeded the legal limit, affected his ability to operate his motorcycle and contributed to the accident, and that a sober driver would have been able to take evasive action.»

For instance, someone who causes a crash by running a red light will always be more than 50 % at - fault — but jury might place a small percentage of fault on you for failing to take evasive actions.

One should walk facing the traffic in order to be able to observe the approaching traffic — and to take evasive action if necessary.

Also, given the usual perception / reaction time to respond to roadway hazards of 1.5 seconds, the slower your vehicle, the less distance your car will travel once you hit the brakes or take evasive action.

If you are forced to take evasive action because of how another vehicle is being operated, and you are injured as a result, you may still have a claim for compensation, despite there being no actual contact between you and the motor vehicle in question.

Unable to take evasive maneuvers, Wolf was struck by the driver's trailer and pulled from his motorcycle.

This means that if a hazard suddenly appears, like a swimmer bobbing in the water, it takes a drunk boater longer to perceive the swimmer's presence and longer to take evasive action, like stopping the boat.

The girls had almost no opportunity to take evasive action to protect themselves.

One would hope that governments, as they prepare to take evasive actions to save humanity and the planet, actions that would doom their economies and people to grinding poverty and unprecedented losses of freedom, would do due diligence and investigate compelling counter arguments.

It'd be better if you could visually make them out and take evasive action.

He said he hopes to determine how whales react to approaching vessels, if they can hear them and whether they take evasive action or surface in panic.

In fact, many of these encounters cause serious injuries and death to the drivers who lost control of their car while attempting to take evasive action.

These systems make use of audio and visual alerts to keep you informed of potential problems on the road ahead, and may even take evasive action through the use of Brake Assist and automatic braking technologies.

If the likelihood of a collision increases, the system issues an audio and visual alarm to encourage the driver to take evasive action, and the increased pre-collision braking force and automatic braking functions are activated.

Both systems can, if the driver does not take evasive action, bring the GLS to a stop.

It includes Lane Departure Alert, Automatic High Beam headlights and Toyota's Pre-Collision System with autonomous braking, which first warns you of a potential forward collision and will then apply the brakes for you if you do not take evasive action.

Should the driver neither brake nor take evasive action despite the warning signal, the car autonomously initiates slight braking.

Vehicle Detection: When the PCS3 determines that the possibility of a frontal collision with that vehicle is high, it prompts the driver to take evasive action and brake, by using an audio and visual alert.

If PCS3 determines that the possibility of a frontal collision with a pedestrian is high under certain conditions, it prompts the driver to take evasive action and brake, by using an audio and visual alert, followed by brake assist4.

A Texas police officer (Reese Witherspoon) is forced to take evasive action while protecting a drug - dealer's widow (Sofia Vergara).

«Charley Varrick» (1973), 5:00 and 9:30 p.m.: After a small - time criminal (Walter Matthau) knocks off a bank, he realizes that he's stumbled upon a Mafia - run money - laundering operation and must take evasive action.

Waist to height ratio is a simple and effective way to understand if you need to take evasive action to lose weight.

Now scientists at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US have worked out a way of anticipating windshear so that pilots can take evasive action.

Now researchers in Taiwan have identified a group of mental health conditions which may make a child more likely to get hooked on the net — giving parents the chance to take some evasive action before it is too late.

A marshal had to take evasive action when Matheus Leist suddenly decided to turn around in the pits

Yet this is the point at which so many people take evasive action.

Initial reports said the woman jumped out in front of the Volvo SUV, but dashcam video indicated she was walking across the road and the vehicle appeared to take no evasive action.

Last December, a report by a Bard College research group on drone incidents said that from December 2013 through September 2015, there were 28 incidents involving airplane pilots taking evasive action to avoid a drone while flying.

Like most of the companies caught up in the anti-corruption crackdown, Rémy Cointreau is now taking evasive action to account for the slump.

Twitter users were quick to point out the mishap to Esurance, who quickly took evasive action.

I just think he was taking evasive action.

I just think he was taking evasive action from a wild swing did he get touched 50/50 but then lost his balance.

There was controversy in the second half when a Totti freekick stuck Shevchenko's elbow while he was taking evasive action in the wall.

Let's be absolutely clear — falling over isn't cheating, taking evasive action in anticipation of heavy contact isn't cheating; appealing for a foul after the fact when no contact is made, directly lying to the ref, is cheating.

In fact, if that took place and, when taking evasive action you hurt yourself, the person who feigned the punch could be held legally liable for that injury if it could be shown he intended to make you think he was about to punch you.

Analyses of videos showed that only 24 % of moths that heard the bat signals under the LED lights took evasive action, whereas 60 % dove erratically when exposed to such chirps when the lights were off, the researchers report online today in Royal Society Open Science.

Beluga whales have taken evasive action against icebreakers thirty miles away.

Yes, perhaps the car DID hit them but a prepared cyclist could have easily taken evasive action to avoid...

If the accelerator pedal is being depressed strongly or the steering wheel is being turned, the system may determine that the driver is taking evasive action and possibly prevent the pre-collision braking function from operating.

If you go with the sedan, it also offers autonomous emergency braking with both vehicle and pedestrian detection — it has the ability to bring the car to a stop should it deem a collision is immanent and the driver takes no evasive action to avoid it.

You took evasive action.

Entire segments of society have either remained silent or taken evasive action.

The fact that the trucker took no evasive action, he said, raises questions of whether the truck driver was speeding, texting, or poorly trained.

She used her automobile to purchase the coffee from the drive thru, she was in her automobile when the coffee spilled and importantly, as the judge found, her seatbelt likely prevented her from taking evasive action to avoid the coffee hitting her legs.

The motorcyclist said no collision took place — his bike fell to the ground while he took evasive action.

The hazard will be materialized if you notice the driver is taking an evasive action.

Not exact matches

The car somehow always detects something around you — if you're fine, you're fine, and if you're not, it might take over and apply evasive actions.

When satellite status reports are taken, some captains will pull a Crazy Ivan [an evasive manoeuvre], to slow their boat down or head in a new direction, to mislead the competition.

No evasive action was taken by the airline crew, and the plane safely made its landing without further incident.

Officials have so far been evasive when asked how the three nations can continue trying to update the North American Free Trade Agreement at a time when the U.S. president is about to take a highly protectionist measure.