1995 Buick Skylark Owner's Manual - Page 136

Section 4 Your Driving and the Road Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving Drive is: defensively. Please start with a very important safety device your in Buick: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts"in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready anything.'' for On city streets, rural roads, or freeways, it means "always expect the unexpected." Assume that pedestriansor 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 andrural driving. You never Here you'll find information about drivingon different know when the vehiclein front of you is going to brake kinds ofroads and in varying weather conditions. We've or turn suddenly. also included many other useful tips on driving. 4-1