1996 GMC Savana Van Owner's Manual - Page 149

Road Section 4 Your Driving and the 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" i n the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready for anything." On city streets, rural roads 01- 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 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 YOLI is going to brake 01- turn suddenly. Here you'll find information about driving on different kinds of roads and in varying weather conditions. We've also included many other useful tips on driving. 4-1