Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about driving is:
Drive defensively.
Please start with
a vesy important safety device
in
your
vehicle: Buckle up. (See "Sakty Belts"
in
the
Indcx.)
Defensive driving really means '*be ready for anything.
On city streets. rural roads or freeways.
it
~neans
"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 comnon. Allow enough
following distance.
It's
the best defensive driving
n1aneuver,
in
both city and rural driving. You never
know when the vehicle
in
front
of
you
is
going
to
brake
or
tllrn suddenly.
Drunken Driving
Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is
a national tsazedy. It's
the
number one contributor to the
highway death
toll.
claiming thousands
of
victims
every year.
Alcohol affects four
things
that anyone needs to drive
it
vehicle:
Attentiveness.
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