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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
Chevrolet: 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.
Drunken Driving
Death and injury associated with drinking and driving 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
Muscular Coordination
Vision
Attentiveness.
Police records show that almost half of all motor
vehicle-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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