1995 Cadillac Seville Owner's Manual - Page 193

DEFENSIVE DRWTNG The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please startwith a very important safety device inyour Cadillac: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" in the Index.) Defensive driving reallymeans "beready for anything." On city streets, rural roads, or freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Assume that pedestrians or otherdrivers 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 isgoing to brake or turn suddenly. DRUNICEN D M N G Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is a national tragedy. It's the number one contributor to the highway death toll, claiming thousands of victims everyyear. Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive a vehicle: 0 Judgment Muscular Coordination Vision 0 Attentiveness Police records show that almost half of all motor vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol. In most cases, these deaths are the result of someone who was drinking and driving. In recent years, some 18,000 annual motor vehicle-related deaths have been associated with the use of alcohol, with more than 300,000 people injured.