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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 Chevrolet: Buclde 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

make mistakes. Anticipate what they

might do.

Be

ready for their mistaltes.

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 in front of you is going

to

brake

or turn suddenly.

I

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 plans to 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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