How to Save a life

As a person
living and growing up in the United States, it is typical to begin
learning how to drive around the age of 16. For many young adults, it
is a rite of passage to be given the car keys along with this, and a
tremendous amount of responsibility. Everybody should need to take a
drivers ed course to increase the number of educated
drivers. Once this number rises, the number of lives lost to
Automobile fatalities will drop. In the drivers, ed course drivers
will learn what the proper distance to maintain while driving is and
other good practices. Some other things that as a driver, you can do
to reduce the possibility of an accident or fatality is by not
texting and driving or better yet wholly remove a reason to touch
your phone while driving.

To begin with,
something that everybody has on their phone regardless of it being an
iPhone or Android is to take advantage of your voice assistant. With
this fantastic piece of technology alone, you can reduce the need to
touch your phone. For instance, you can ask Siri or Google to give
you directions to your destinations, play music, call or text, and
even tell you what the traffic will look like on your way to and from
home. The next step would be downloading an app onto your phone that
would instantly turn on when you begin driving that will
automatically respond to all your incoming texts that you’re
currently driving and can’t answer. The last but most crucial step
is to be cautious of the other cars around you constantly, something
I have always heard from my parents is “Drive like everybody else
is crazy.” This tip keeps me cautious and alert of the positions of
the other cars around me.

I have unfortunately been in an accident before, and it ended with my
car being totaled and minor whiplash. I was rear-ended by a truck
going about 35 Mph while I was stopped entirely. When the driver of
the truck and I got out, she told me that she was texting and driving
and didn’t see that I was stopped. Thankfully a police officer was
just driving by and was able to handle all the paperwork and
everything filled. Had the driver of the truck been paying attention
to her surroundings and used my tips previously mentioned, there
might not have been an accident. I can take my advice when it comes
to driving, and when riding with friends and family, let them know
when they are unsafe and irresponsible.