Choices Always Result in Consequences

As
a student who has taken drivers ed, it helped me to not
only to learn about how to safely drive but some of the terrible
accidents that have occurred to some unfocused drivers. With driver’s
education, it should help to stop these deaths from occurring by more
teachers sharing about tragic stories. One of my teachers for
drivers ed was a survivor of a scary car accident. This
teacher taught me to never go anywhere with no seatbelt and with a
reckless male driver who decided to play chicken. Driver’s
education taught me to fear driving because one can kill someone in
the blink of an eye. It takes a good listener to hear the personal
stories of experienced drivers and take that onto the road every day
as they drive. Learning the basics is important, but a driver needs
to have some form of motivation when they drive. My motivation is
don’t die or get extensively hurt and the same goes for the drivers
around me.

One
major step that can be taken for the number of deaths related to
driving is to cut off phones and other distractions. Phones
constantly are running our lives in and out of operating a car. A
single person has to check their Snapchat
or update their Facebook
every
five minutes it seems. Police officers should pull over every single
person they see with a phone out in the driver’s seat. It takes one
second to get distracted, and then end up face down in a ditch.

I
was on my way to school one morning when I simply had zoned out and
then saw a car in front of me was breaking. I ended up gently hitting
the car, but some aren’t as lucky as me. My father was on the
rescue squad for about twenty years, which ends up in him
story-telling about all the wrecks he ever worked. This was a
constant push into that fear while driving, but the youthful stories
of his survival on the road aroused adrenaline. Eventually, after
scaring yourself, you learn quickly.

Experience
also helps to encourage the number of deaths related to driving to
drop. When one gains experience, they can know their reaction time,
strengths, and weaknesses while driving. When I misjudge the size of
the curb, I keep that in the back of my mind to use later on.
Eventually, everyone will learn, but no one should die for this to
happen. Teaching children that choices have consequences is
important, like “if you hit your sister, you’ll be in trouble,”
but relate it to driving specifically.

I
need to get better at changing lanes while watching my blind spot. I
tend to look at and change directions at the same time. I have the
opportunity to swerve back into my lane or hit them all because of
this bad habit. Driving is scary and one should be aware of the
consequences that come with the choice to sit behind the wheel.