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Your Driving and the Road<br />
Defensive Driving<br />
The best advice anyone can give about<br />
driving is: Drive defensively.<br />
Please start with a very important safety<br />
device in your Pontiac: Buckle up. (See<br />
“Safety Belts” in the Index.)<br />
Defensive driving really means “be ready<br />
for anything.” On city streets, rural roads,<br />
or freeways, it means “always expect the<br />
unexpected.”<br />
Assume that pedestrians or other drivers<br />
are going to be careless and make<br />
mistakes. Anticipate what they might do.<br />
Be ready for their mistakes.<br />
Rear-end collisions are about the most<br />
preventable of accidents. Yet they are<br />
common. Allow enough following<br />
distance. It’s the best defensive driving<br />
maneuver, in both city and rural driving.<br />
You never know when the vehicle in front<br />
of you is going to brake or turn suddenly.<br />
w Drunken Driving<br />
Death and injury associated with drinking<br />
and driving is a national tragedy. It’s the<br />
number one contributor to the highway<br />
death toll, claiming thousands of victims<br />
every year. Alcohol takes away three<br />
things that anyone needs to drive a<br />
vehicle:<br />
Judgment<br />
Muscular Coordination<br />
Vision<br />
Police records show that almost half of all<br />
motor vehicle-related deaths involve<br />
alcohol - a driver, a passenger or<br />
someone else, such as a pedestrian, had<br />
been drinking. In most cases, these deaths<br />
are the result of someone who was<br />
drinking and driving. About 20,000 motor<br />
vehicle-related deaths occur each year<br />
because of alcohol, and thousands of<br />
people are injured.<br />
lust how much alcohol is too much if a<br />
person plans to drive? Ideally, no one<br />
should drink alcohol and then drive. But<br />
if one does, then what’s “too much”? It<br />
can be a lot less than many might think.<br />
Although it depends on each person and<br />
situation, here is some general<br />
information on the problem.<br />
The Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of<br />
someone who is drinking depends upon<br />
four things:<br />
0<br />
How much alcohol is in the drink.<br />
The drinker’s body weight.<br />
The amount of food that is consumed<br />
before and during drinking.<br />
The length of time it has taken the<br />
drinker to consume the alcohol.<br />
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