1997 Buick Riviera Owner's Manual - Page 165

The best advice anyone can about driving is: give Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety deviceyour in in Buick: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" the Index.) Defensive driving really means ready for anything." "be On city streets, rural roads or freeways,means it "always expect the unexpected." Assume that pedestrians or other drivers are to be going careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be ready their mistakes. for of Rear-end collisions are about the most preventable accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough following distance. It's the best defensive driving You never maneuver, inboth city and rural driving. in know when the vehicle front of you is goingto brake or turn suddenly. 4-2