Your Driving, The Road, And Your Vehicle; Defensive Driving - Chevrolet 2007 Colorado 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 20.
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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.