Driving at night can be tricky. These tips can help...

If you dread driving in the dark – there are a few things you can do to improve your night driving:

• Angle your headlights properly. Over time, they get out of whack - and badly aimed headlights can distort your vision or blind oncoming drivers. Check them about once a year by parking on a flat seurface about 10 feet from a wall or garage door – and take note of low and high beam alignment. 

• Angle your mirrors. If you’ll be on the highway for any length of time, it’s worth adjusting your side mirrors slightly down. You’ll have to adjust your head a bit before changing lanes – but it will cut night driving glare significantly. 

• Clean your headlights and windshield, inside and out. It’s common sense but a lot of people don’t do it - and it makes a huge difference at night.

• Watch the white line. When oncoming traffic is blinding you – focus on the white or yellow line to your right until they pass. You’ll save your eyes the trouble of trying to adjust to extremes.

• Back off. Leave a little more room between you and the car in front of you at night. It will reduce red light glare for you – and rear-view glare for them.