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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 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.
Anythmg
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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