1998 GMC Suburban Owner's Manual - Page 194

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 comnon. Allow enough following distance. It's the best defensive driving n1aneuver, in both city and rural driving. You never know when the vehicle in front of you is going to brake or tllrn suddenly. Drunken Driving Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is a national tsazedy. It's the number one contributor to the highway death t o l l . claiming thousands of victims every year. Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a vesy important safety device i n your vehicle: Buckle up. (See "Sakty Belts" i n the Indcx.) Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive it vehicle: .. Defensive driving really means '*beready for anything. On city streets. rural roads or freeways. it ~neans "always expect the unexpected." Attentiveness. 4-2