1998 Chevrolet Astro Owner's Manual - Page 186

- 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 goingto brake or turn suddenly. Defensive driving requires that adriver concentrate on the driving task. Anything that distracts from the driving task -- such as concentrating on a cellular telephone call, reading, or reaching for something on the floor -- makes proper defensive drivingmore difficult and caneven cause a collision, with resulting injury. Ask passenger a to help do things like this,or pull off the road in asafe place to do them yourself. These simple defensive driving techniques could save your life. 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" in theIndex.) Defensive driving really means "be ready anything." for On city streets, rural roadsor freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Drunken Driving Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is a nationaltragedy.It'sthenumberonecontributor to the highway deathtoll, claiming thousands victims every year. of Alcohol affects four things that anyone needsto drive a vehicle: 0 Judgment Muscular Coordination