Your Driving, the Road, and Your Vehicle; Defensive Driving; Your Vehicle- Page 286

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 16

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CAUTION:

Defensive driving really means “Be ready
for anything.” On city streets, rural roads,
or expressways, 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 and be ready.

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Rear-end collisions are about the most
preventable of accidents. Yet they are
common. Allow enough following
distance. Defensive driving requires that a
driver concentrate on the driving task.
Anything that distracts from the driving
task makes proper defensive driving more
difficult and can even cause a collision,
with resulting injury. Ask a passenger to
help do these things, or pull off the road
in a safe place to do them. These simple
defensive driving techniques could save
your life.

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