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ignore all these markings and dash straight toward one
part of the lot.
Pedestrians can be careless. Watch for them.
In
general,
you must give way to pedestrians even
if
you know you
have the right of way.
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
Iknow when the vehicle in front of you
is
going to brake
or turn suddenly.
Here’s a final bit of information about defensive driving.
The most dangerous time for driving in the
U.S.
is very
early on Sunday morning. In fact,
GM
Research studies
show that the most and the least dangerous times for
driving, every week, fall on the same day. That day is
Sunday. The most dangerous time is Sunday from
3
a.m.
to
4
a.m. The safest time is Sunday from
10
a.m. to
11
a.m. Driving the same distance on a Sunday at
3
a.m.
isn’t just
a
little more dangerous than it is at
10
a.m. It’s
about
134
times more dangerous!
That leads to the next section.
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 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. Over
25,000
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 mucli”?
It
can be
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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