Owner's Manual

Assume that pedestrians or other drivers arc 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 cnough 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 DRIWNG
Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is a national
tragedy.
It's the numbcr one contributor to the highway death toll,
claiming thousands
of victims every year.
Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive
a vehicle:
Judgment
0 Muscular Coordination
0 Vision
Attentiveness
Police records show that almost
half of all motor vehicle-rclated dcaths
involve alcohol. In most
cases. these deaths are the result of somonc who
was drinking and driving. In recent years, sum(: 18.000 annual motor
vehiclerelated deaths have been associated
with the L~SC of ;11cohol, with
more than 300,000 people injurcd.
Many
ad~~lts -- by some cstimatcs, ncarly half the dult
population -- choose never to drink alcohol, so they ncver drive
after drinking. For persons under 21, it's against the law in every U.S.
state to drink alcohol. There are good medical, psychological and
developmental reasons for these laws.
The obvious way to solve this highway safety problem is for people never
to drink alcohol and then drive. But what if people do? How much is "too
much'' if the driver plans to drive? It's a lot less than many might think.
Although it depends on each person and situation. here is some general
information
on the problem.
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