Your Driving, The Road, And Your Vehicle; Defensive Driving - Buick 2006 LaCrosse Owner's Manual

Your Driving, the Road, and
Your Vehicle

Defensive Driving

The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive
defensively.
Please start with a very important safety device in your
vehicle: Buckle up. See Safety Belts: They Are for
Everyone on page 1-8.
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Defensive driving really means "Be ready for
anything." On city streets, rural roads, or
expressways, 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 and be
ready. Rear-end collisions are about the most
preventable of accidents. Yet they are common.
Allow enough following distance. Defensive
driving requires that a driver concentrate on the
driving task. Anything that distracts from the
driving task makes proper defensive driving
more difficult and can even cause a collision,
with resulting injury. Ask a passenger to help
do these things, or pull off the road in a safe
place to do them. These simple defensive
driving techniques could save your life.