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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
Pontiac: 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.
Defensive driving requires that a driver concentrate
on the driving task. Anything that distracts fiom the
driving task -- such as concentrating on
a
cellular
telephone call, reading, or reaching for something on
the floor
--
makes proper defensive driving more
difficult and can even cause
a
collision, with resulting
injury. Ask a passenger to
help do
things like this, or
pull off the road in
a safe
place to do them yourself.
These simple defensive driving techniques could
save your life.
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