1994 Buick Regal Owner's Manual - Page 142

F 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 rural driving. You never and know when the vehicle infront of you is going to brake or turn suddenly. Drunken Driving 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 every year. Alcohol takes away three things that anyone needs to drive a vehicle: 0 Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a veryimportant safety device in your Buick: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready for anything." On city streets, rural roads, or freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Judgment Muscular Coordination Vision 0 0 Police records show that almost half of all motor vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol -a driver, a passenger or someone else, such as a pedestrian, had been drinking. In most cases, these deaths are the result of someone who wasdrinking and driving. About 140