1996 Buick Park Avenue Owner's Manual - Page 175

Section 4 Your Driving and the Road Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Buick: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be readyfor 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 preventableof accidents. Yet they are common, Allow enough following distance. It's the best defensive driving maneuver, in both city and rural driving. You never Here you'll find information about driving on different know when the vehicle in front of you is going to brake kinds of roads and in varying weather conditions. We've or turn suddenly. also included many other useful tips on driving.