Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about driving is:
Drive defensively.
Please start with a very important safety device in your
Pontiac: 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 €or 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 dnnking
and
dnving is a
national tragedy. 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
a vehicle:
Judgment
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MUSGU~W Coordination
Vision
Attentiveness.
Police records
show
that almost half
of
all motor
vehiclle-related deaths involve alcohol. In
most
cases,
these deaths are the result of someone
who
was drinking
and driving. In recent years, some
17,000
annual motor
vehicle-related deaths have been associated with
the
use
of
alcohol,
with
more
than
300,000
people injured.
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