Drunken Driving - Buick 1997 Skylark Owner's Manual

:Defensive Driving
'The best advice anyone can give about driving is:
'Drive defensively.
:Please start with a very important safety device in your
LBuick: 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 a h o s t 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
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