1994 Buick Skylark Owner's Manual - Page 146

Assume that pedestrians or other drivers going to be are careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might do. Be readyfor their mistakes. Rear-end collisionsare about the most preventableof accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough following distance. It's best defensive driving the maneuver, in both city and rural driving. never You know when the vehicle in front 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 contributor to the one of highway death toll, claiming thousands victims every year. Alcohol takes away three things that anyone needs to drive a vehicle: Judgment I' Defensive Driving 0 MuscularCoordination The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive 0 Vision defensively. of all Please start with very important safety device in your Police records show that almost half motor a vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol a driver, a Buick: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" in the Index.) passenger or someone else, such a pedestrian, had as Defensive driving really means "be ready for anything." been drinking. In most cases, these deaths the result are On city streets, rural roads, or freeways, it means of someone who was drinking and driving. "always expect the unexpected." 144