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Section 4 Your Driving and the Road
Here you'll find information about driving on different
kinds of roads and in varying weather conditions. We've
also included many other useful tips on driving.
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"
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 go~ng
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.
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