Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about driving is:
Drive defensively.
Please start
with
a
very important safety device
in
yc
vehicle: 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.
Defensive driving requires that a driver concentrate on
the driving task. Anything that distracts from
the
driving
task
--
such
as
concentrating
on
a cellular telephone
call, reading, or reaching for something on the
floor
--
makes proper defensive driving more
difficult and can even cause
a
collision,
with
resulting
injury.
Ask
a
passenger to help do things like this, or
pull
off the road
in
a safe place to do them yourself.
These simple defensive driving techniques could save
your life.
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