How Car Accidents Have Made Me Scared To Drive

Many
people die as a result of reckless driving. Whether it’s looking in
the back seat of your car to driving drunk they are all harmful and
Drivers ed helps to reduce this by teaching people the effects
of driving recklessly. For example, I had to partner with someone to
make a PowerPoint related to driving. We chose to do drunk driving
and then we presented it to the class. The overall importance of
Drivers ed is to teach people how to drive safely and feel
comfortable driving before they get their license. To reduce the
number of deaths related to driving it should be required to take
Drivers ed in order to graduate. This would not only help to
decrease the number of deaths related to driving, but it would also
help to bring awareness to reckless driving.

On
September 26th, 2019 my older sister was hit by a drunk driver. She
did the worst thing to do in this situation: She swerved, which
caused her car to roll four times. Most people in her situation
would’ve been paralyzed or worse, yet all she has is permanent
nerve damage, had to go to a chiropractor, and had gashes in her head
to the point that when she took a shower there was a lot of dried
blood washing off. In addition to this, I have been in two car
accidents myself, I know three people who have been in car accidents,
and my grandma and grandpa lost their lives because of a car
accident. My grandma died before the paramedics arrived and my
grandpa bled out. The most recent car accident I was in was roughly
five years ago. I was with my mom and the car behind us rear-ended us
and I fell asleep in the passenger seat. Luckily we weren’t
injured. I remember later that night my mom wanted to take me to the
hospital and eventually I had to talk to an insurance agent to
determine what had actually happened. The other one I was nine and my
younger sister, her dad, her dad’s girlfriend, and I were on the
way to a petting zoo and we were rear-ended. I believe that because
of the car accidents I have been in and knowing people who have been
in worse car accidents than I have, have made me terrified of
driving. With that being said I’ve taken Drivers ed and I’m
scared of driving. Since I’m scared of driving, one way that I can
be a safer driver and to keep others on the road safe is to practice
driving on roads that aren’t busy until I feel more comfortable.
For example, whenever I think about driving I get nervous and scared
and then when I start driving I get so tense that I can barely move.
Not only can I do this, but I can also advise people to take Drivers
Education and to get as much practice as possible so they feel
comfortable driving.