Your Driving and
the
Road
Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about
driving is: Drive defensively.
Please start with a very important safety
device
in
your Geo: 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.
Drunken Driving
Death and injury associated
with
drinking
and driving is a national tragedy. It‘s the
number one contributor
to
the highway
death
toll,
claiming thousands
of
victims
every year. Alcohol takes away three
things that anyone needs to drive a
vehicle:
0
Judgment
0
Muscular Coordination
Vision
Police records show that almost half of
all
motor vehicle-related deaths involve
alcohol
-
a driver, a passenger or
someone else, such as a pedestrian, had
been drinking.
In
most cases, these
deaths are the result of someone who
was drinking and driving. About
20,000
motor vehicle-related deaths occur’each
year because of alcohol, and thousands
of
people are injured.
Just
how much alcohol
is
too
much ifa
person plans to drive‘? Ideally, no one
should drink alcohol and then drive.
But
if
one does, then what’s
“too
much”‘?
It
:an
be
a
lot less than many might think.
Although
it
depends on each person and
situation, here is some general
information on
the
problem.
The Blood Alcohol Content (BAC j of
someone who is drinking depends upon
four things:
How much alcohol is
in
the drink.
The drinker’s body weight.
The amount of food that is consumed
before and during drinking.
The length of time
it
has taken the
drinker to consume the alcohol.
.
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