Your Driving, the Road, and
Your Vehicle
Defensive Driving
Tha bosi advice anyone can give abeul driving is:
Diiive defensively.
Please start with a very important safely device in yoüt
vehicle: Bucide up. See Safety Bei!s: They Ате îqt
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Defensive driving really means "be ready for anything."
On city SI rests, rural roads or freeways, it means
“alwaysexpect (he ипекpeeled"
Assumo thai pedesinans or oiber drivers are going to
be careless and make mislahea. Anticipate what
they might cfo. Be ready tor their mlslakes.
Rear-end coHlsiens are about the mosi prevenlable of
accidants. Yat they are common. Allow enough following
disfance. It's The best defensive driving maneuver, in both
city and rural driving. You ngver know when The vehicEe in
front of you is going lo brake or turn suddenly*
Delensive driving roquircs ibal a drtver con centrale on
The driving lask. Anything lhat distracis from the driving
task — such as concentrating on a cellular telephone call,
reading* or reaching for something on the floor— makes
proper datansiva driving more difficult and can even
cause a colliBioti, with resulting injury. Ash a passenger to
help da things like this, or pull off tho road in a sale place
to do them yoursell. These simple defensive driving
lechniquBS could save your lito.
Drunken Driving
Death and injury associated with drinking and driving ^s
a national tragedy. It's the number one contributor to
Ihc highway death toll, claiming thousands of victims
every year.
Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive a
vehicle:
• Judgment
• Muscular Coordination
• Vision
• Atientiveness.
Police records show iriat almost hall of all motor
vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol. In mosl cases,
these deaths aro the result of someone who was
drinking and driving, in recam years, more than
16,000 annual motor vehicle-related deaths have been
associated with the use of alcohol, wilfi more than
30IJ,ÜÜ0 people ¡njurad.
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