Educating Drivers

Diver’s education is the most crucial step in reducing the number of deaths while driving. Uneducated drivers are dangerous divers. That is why it is so important to teach young drivers the rules of the road and educate them on how to properly drive. Young drivers need to know what each sign means, when to look for oncoming cars, how to stay within the lines and proper steps to running a car. Without this information, drivers are a hazard to themselves and others.

There are plenty of steps that you can take to reduce the number of deaths related to driving. One of the most important first steps is to teach people how to drive defensively. If everyone drove carefully and watched for other drivers, the death toll would plummet. Another step that you can take is to show drivers that speeding does not actually get you to your location much faster. Ten miles an hour can only be a two-minute difference to the time of your arrival. With this statistic the cost of a ticket and the potential accident that may ensue greatly outweigh the ‘need for speed.’ If drivers could comprehend that concept, then there would be much less accidents.

I personally, have been in three car accidents and none were while I was driving. In addition to that, all were on some other third party’s negligence, not the person that I was riding with. All of the accidents could have been avoided if the other parties we not talking on their cell phone, attempting to send a text, or if they were paying attention to their surroundings. In one of the crashes, we were t-boned because some lady did not look to see if there was oncoming traffic. I image that there are plenty of accidents that derive from the same problem. Somebody was not paying attention.

My family is not known for being the best drivers. My father is careless. He travels at speeds that are a lot higher than he should and is known for being a deer magnet. He has hit over a dozen deer in his life. The problem is that he does not pay attention. My mother has seen every deer that he has hit and has given him ample time to react to avoid them. But he has never seen them and ends up ramming them at full speed. If he would pay attention to his surroundings then he would have avoided the deer, not hit them. We have lost 2 vehicles to that negligence. He also has a problem of turning his head to talk to you. Especially, when he is driving. It can be incredibly scary sometimes because, when he turns his head, he swerves a lot. Then there is my little brother. He got into a car accident himself. My little brother ran a stop sign and, in his defense, the other party was speeding significantly. So, he thought he had time to make it. But that is no excuse for negligence. If he had used better judgement, he would not have been in the accident. There are also my cousins who, while riding together, just got into an accident last week that totaled both vehicles involved.

Then there is my friend who is the definition of driving irresponsibly. I have attempted to tell him multiple times that he needs to stop he behavior because his license will be revoked if he is not. He likes to drive everywhere at 95 mph and to swerve in and out of traffic. I have only ridden with him once and based on the experience, I will never be doing that again. People like him are the reason why the car accident death toll are so high. If he gets into a car crash, somebody including himself could undergo serious harm. I wish that he could see how much danger that he puts himself and others through. I wish that I could convince him to act more responsibly so that he and other people would be safer. This is true for more than just him, however. I wish that I could help show everyone some responsibility so that nobody gets hurt.

I started out as a reckless driver. I would speed everywhere, and I shared the same talking problem my dad has. I also had a bad habit of texting and driving. That all changed when I received a very hefty speeding ticket when I was 17. I got it removed from my record, however, it is sting still lasts. After that I became a very diligent driver and I no longer speed at all. I learned my lesson once and for all and that will always stay with me. There are still plenty of things that I could do myself to better my own driving and I am working on those every day. I work on my timing and making sure that I have plenty or time to pull out. I work on my parking to make sure that I am safe. I even learned to back into parking spots so that I can see pedestrians and other cars when I pull out of a parking spot. I still have more to learn but I am confident and proud to say that I am a safe driver. I strive to stay that way and to help convince others that they should be too.