1993 Oldsmobile Silhouette Owner's Manual - Page 149

r "I'll be careful" isn'tthe right answer. the chanceof a crash itself is higher for What if there's an emergency,a need to Ckinking drivers. take sudden action, as when a child darts into the street? person with a A CAllT€~N higher BAC might notbe able to react Drinking and then driving is quickly enough to avoid the collision. c b verydangerous. Yourreflexes, There's something else about drinking pexeptions, and judgment will be and driving thatmany people don't affected by even a small amount of know. Medical research shows that alcohol. You could have a alcohol in a person's system can make serious-or even fatal-accident if crash injuries worse. That's especially you drive after drinking. Please true for brain, spinal cord andheart don't drink and driveor ride with a injuries. That means that if anyone who driver who has been drinking. has been drinking-driver or Ride home in a cab; or if you're passenger-is in a crash, the chance of with a group, designate a driver being killed or permanently disabled is who will not drink. higher thanif that person had not been drinking. And we've already seen that Control of a Vehicle You have three systems that make your vehicle go whereyou want it to go. They are the brakes, the steering and the accelerator. All three systems have to do their work at the places where the tires meet the road. Sometimes, as when you're driving on snow or ice, it's easy to ask more of those control systems than the tires and road can provide. That means you can lose control of your vehicle. n r 147