GMC 2003 Savana - Manual (Page 199)

Your Driving, the Road, and
Your Vehicle
Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give aboul dnving is; Drive
Please start wilb a very УгпроПйШ safely device in your
vehicle: BucWg up. Soe Safety Belts:' They Are hf
Everyone or} page 1-9.
DeiensrvB driving геэНу "Ьв ready for anything."
On city streets, rural roads or freeways, II means
"‘always expect the anaxpacted,"
Assume that pedestrians or other drivers are going !o
he careiess and matte mistakes. Anticipate what
Nigy might do Be ready for iheir mistakes
Rear-end collisions are about tha most pneventablE ol
accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough foltowing
distance. It's the hesi defensive driving maneuver, in
doth city ar>d гига! driving. You never know when
the vehicle in fronl o1 you is going to brake or turn
suddenly.
Defensive driving requires that a dnver ccncentrata or
the driving (asK- Anything that distracts from the
driving lask — such as concentrating on a cellular
telephone call, raadingn or reaching ior soimething on
the floor— makes proper defensive driving more
difficult and can even cause a cQllision, with resulling
injury. Ask a passenger fo help do things tike this, or
pull off the road in a sale place to do them yourself.
These simple defensive driving techniques coutd save
your Iffe.
Drunken Driving
Dealh and injury associated with drinking end driving is
a nalional tragedy. It's The number one contributor to
the highway dealh toll, claiming thousands of vtctims
every year.
Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive a
vehicle;
* Judgment
* Muscular Coordination
• Vision
• Attentiveness.
Police records show lhal almost halt of all motor
vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol. Irt most cases.
These deaths are (he result oT someone who was
drinking and driving. In regañí years, more than
15.000 annual nnolor vehicle-refated deaths have been
associated with the use of alcohol, with morg than
300.000 people injured.
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