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Your Driving and the Road Defensive Driving The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively. Please start with a very important safety device in your Pontiac: Buckle (See up. Safety Belts in the Index.) Defensive driving really means "be ready for anything."On city streets, rural roads, or freeways, means it "always expectthe unexpected." Assume that pedestrians or other drivers are goingto be careless and male mistakes. Anticipate what they might do.Be ready fortheir mistakes. Rear-end collisionsare about the most preventable of accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough following distance. It's the best defensive driving maneuver, in both city and rural driving. You never knowwhen the vehicle infront of you is goingto brake or turnsuddenly. Drunken Driving Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is national a tragedy. It's the number one contributor to thehighway death toll, claiming thousands of victims every year. Alcohol takes away three things that anyone needsto drive a vehicle: Judgment Muscular Coordination Vision Police records show that almost halfof all motor vehicle-relateddeaths 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 was drinkingand driving. About 20,000 motor vehicle-related deaths occur each year becauseof alcohol, and thousands of people are injured. Just how much alcohol is too mucha if person plansto drive? Ideally,~ no one should drink alcohol and then drive. '(too But if one does, then what's much"? It can be a lot lessthan many might think. Although it depends on each person andsituation, here is some general information on problem. the The Blood Alcohol Content(BAC) of upon someone who is drinking depends four things: How much alcohol is the drink. in The drinker's body weight. The amountof food that is consumed before and during drinking. The lengthof time it has taken the drinker to consume the alcohol. 102

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Your
Driving and
the
Road
Defensive
Driving
The best
advice
anyone
can
give
about
driving
is:
Drive
defensively.
Please start with a very important safety
device
in
your
Pontiac:
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.”
Assume that pedestrians
or other
drivers
are
going
to be
careless and
male mistakes. Anticipate what they
might
do. Be ready
fortheir 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 and rural
driving. You never
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:
Judgment
Muscular
Coordination
Vision
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
was
drinking and driving. About
20,000
motor
vehicle-related deaths occur
each
year
because of alcohol, and
thousands
of
people are injured.
Just how
much
alcohol
is
too
much
if
a
person
plansto drive?
Ideally,~
no
one
should
drink
alcohol
and
then
drive.
But
if
one
does,
then
what’s
‘(too
much”? It can be a lot
less than many
might
think.
Although
it
depends
on
each
person
and situation, here
is
some
general
information
on
the problem.
The
Blood
Alcohol
Content
(BAC)
of
someone
who
is
drinking
depends
upon
four
things:
How
much
alcohol
is
in the
drink.
The
drinker’s
body
weight.
The
amount of food that is
consumed
before
and
during
drinking.
The
length of time
it
has
taken
the
drinker to consume the alcohol.
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