No Second Chances.

As we get to the age, where we’ve been waiting… and waiting for the years to come of excitement and being thrilled with energy to get our temporary license, and then the grand finale of it all the real deal our license. Feeling the freedom to be able to just get in the car and go. When this comes to play with our freedom of driving there come steps to achieving that final step, driving education. Driver education is such a crucial and HUGE part of today’s world of learning the basic skills and knowledge of what it takes to get behind the wheel, learning vehicle safety, and learning the craft of patience, responsible, and cautious driving. Having these knowledgeable skills, will not only prevent your life and another person’s life from death. Many new drivers don’t realize that having these types of basic aspects before getting behind the wheel helps reduce the high number of deaths today.

Some steps that are crucial to today’s driver’s education that will be significant steps to reduce the number of deaths from driving alone are simple. Providing programs to educate drivers about the potential risks and dangers on the road, such as distracted driving and driving under the influence. From not just the educated aspects of impaired driving, but knowledge of driver safety. Wearing a seatbelt, following traffic laws, and having patience behind the wheel. These are some of the key factors that could not only save your life but someone else’s. Driving is a privilege. Once you take the privilege of driving too far, not only could this cause death but the effects many people’s lives and their families. Not only educating young teens but implementing stricter licensing requirements and conducting regular driver training sessions are just some of the steps that can be taken to further reduce the number of deaths related to driving.

Through my own experience with family members and friends driving irresponsibly, this hits home through not only myself but the impact on my entire family alone. From the irresponsibility of driving, I wouldn’t be here today. My father was in a horrible accident before I was born. Being irresponsible, he was under the influence. Driving under the influence at a high level of alcohol consumption, crashed his car with three other passengers, this crash caused the car to catch on fire. Fourteenthly, my father survived this accident as well as the other people in the car. From this almost death-related crash, ever since that accident, my father has been sober for over 30 years. He has never touched alcohol ever since.

Another story that hits home as well, that is important for driver education knowledge is the act of wearing your seatbelt. I know many individuals that don’t wear their seatbelts and for the longest time a few years ago my parents never did, and I didn’t either, until a significant accident happened. A family friend of ours was driving home one day with her husband and just without realizing she just didn’t put her seatbelt on. Within five minutes down the road until she was home, she got in a car accident, and unfortunately not wearing a seatbelt caused her death. Flying out the window, the car flipped over and crushed her. Her husband survived the crash because he was wearing his seatbelt. This accident left her husband behind to take care of their five children as a single father. Ever since then, I have always, no matter if it’s two minutes down the road, I will always and forever wear my seatbelt.

Steps that I can take that will make me a better and safer driver as well as help other new drivers or ones that have had their license, is thinking about responsibility is a key factor for me. I have had my license since I was sixteen, a brand-new driver, and I still count myself being a newer driver for having my license for about four years now, you don’t realize there are many people on the road that are irresponsible. That’s why responsibility is a key factor for me. I don’t want to be the one who puts the risk of other people’s lives as if I’m the one driving, I’m responsible for theirs.

Being in college many individuals I see don’t make the smartest choice. I always think to myself, will this affect me and my family and others? As well as not only being a follower and showing what’s right when going behind the wheel, and not being influenced to potentially cause harm to other people and what impact that will have not only on my life and others. Once you messed up once, there are no second chances.