1997 Buick Skylark Owner's Manual - Page 161

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's the best defensive driving You maneuver, in both city and rural driving. never know when the vehicle front of you is going to brake in 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 victims of every year. Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive a vehicle: :Defensive Driving Judgment MuscularCoordination 'The best advice anyone can give about driving is: 'Drive defensively. Vision Attentiveness. :Please start with a very important safety device in your LBuick: Buckle up. (See "Safety Belts" the Index.) in Police records show that h o s t half of all motor a vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol. In most cases, -Defensive driving really means ready for anything." "be these deaths are the result someone who was drinking of ,On city streets, rural roads or freeways, it means and driving. In recent years, some17,000 annual motor "always expect the unexpected.'' 4-2