1994 GMC Safari Owner's Manual - Page 156

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" in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready for anything." On citystreets, rural roads, or 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. ready for their mistakes. Be Rear-end collisions are about the most preventable of accidents. they Yet 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 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: Judgment 0 Muscular Coordination Vision Police records show that almost half of all motor vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol - a driver, apassenger or someone else, such as a pedestrian, had beendrinking. In most cases, these deaths are the result of someone who was drinking and driving. About20,000 motor vehicle-related deaths occur each year because of alcohol, and thousands of people are injured. too to Just how much alcohol is much if a person plans drive? Ideally, no one should drink alcohol and thendrive. But if one does, then what's "too much"? It can be a lot less than many might think. Although depends on it each person and situation, here is some general information on the problem. The Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of someone who is drinkingdepends upon four things: How much alcohol is in the drink. 0 0 0 The drinker's body weight. The amount of food that is consumed before and duringdrinking. The length of time it has taken thedrinker to consume the alcohol. 4-2