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Defensive Driving

The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively.

Please start

with

a very important safety device

your vehicle: Buckle up.

(See “Safety Belts” in the Index.)

Defensive driving really means “be ready for anything.” On city streets,

rural roads, or freeways,

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’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.

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

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

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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