1994 GMC Jimmy Owner's Manual - Page 160

Defensive Driving The best adviceanyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your vehicle: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready anything." On city streets, for rural roads, or freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Assume that pedestrians or other drivers are going be careless and make to mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be readytheir mistakes. for Rear-end collisions areabout the most preventable accidents. Yet they of are common. Allow enough following distance. It's the best defensive driving maneuver, in both city and rural driving. never know when the You or vehicle in front of you is going to brake turn suddenly. Drunken Driving Death and injury associated with drinking and driving national tragedy. a is It's the numberone contributor to the highway death toll, claiming thousands of victims every year. Alcohol takes away three things that anyone needs to drive vehicle: a Judgment Muscular Coordination Vision Police records show that almost half all motor vehicle-related deaths of as involve alcohol -a driver, a passenger or someone else, such a pedestrian, had been drinking.In most cases, these deaths are the result of someone whowas drinking and driving. About 20,000 motor of vehicle-related deaths occur each year because alcohol, and thousands of people are injured. Just how much alcohol is too much person plans to drive? Ideally, no a if one should drink alcohol and then drive. Butone does, then what's "too if much"? It can bea lot less than many might think. Although depends on it each person and situation, here some general information on the problem. is The Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) someone who is drinkingdepends of upon four things: How much alcohol is in the drink. The drinker's body weight. The amount of food that is consumed beforeand during drinking. The length of time it has taken the drinkerto consume the alcohol. 4-2