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Your Driving, the Road, and

Your Vehicle

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: They Are for

Everyone on page 1-10.

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 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 is 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.

Defensive driving requires that a driver concentrate on

the driving task. Anything that distracts from the driving

task — such as concentrating on a cellular telephone call,

reading, or reaching for something on the ﬂoor — makes

proper defensive driving more difficult and can even

cause a collision, with resulting injury. Ask a passenger to

help do things like this, or pull off the road in a safe place

to do them yourself. These simple defensive driving

techniques could save your life.

Drunken Driving

Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is

a national tragedy. It is the number one contributor

to the highway death toll, claiming thousands of victims

every year.

Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive

a vehicle:

• Judgment

• Muscular Coordination

• Vision

• Attentiveness

Police records show that almost half of all motor

vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol. In most cases,

these deaths are the result of someone who was

drinking and driving. In recent years, more than

16,000 annual motor vehicle-related deaths have been

associated with the use of alcohol, with more than

300,000 people injured.

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