Section
4
Your Driving and the Road
I.
Defensive Driving
I
The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive
defensively.
Please start with a very important safety device
in
your
Here you’ll find information about driving on different
kinds
of
roads and
in
varying weather conditions. We’ve
also included many other useful tips on driving.
Buick: Buckle up. (See “Safety Belts”
in
the Index.)
Defensive driving really means “be ready for anything.”
On city streets, rural roads, or freeways, it means
“always expect the unexpected.”
Assume that pedestrians
or
other drivers are going
to
be
careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they ,might
do.
Be
ready for
their
mistakes.
Rear-end collisions are about the most preventable of
accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough
following distance. It’s the best defensive driving
maneuver, in both city and rural driving.
You
never
know when the vehicle in front of you
is
going to brake
or turn suddenly.
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