Safe Driving A Life or Death Choice

The importance of driver education in reducing the number of deaths as a result of driving is that it will keep everyone safer on the roads. This is because it will teach people how to help avoid a possible accident, prepare them for any event that happens, and will help teach how to be cautious,observant, and safer when driving. It will also teach people how they can avoid causing an accident, and avoid another family getting heartbroken, For example, teaching people to put their phone on silent and out of reach, not blasting really loud music where you can’t hear anything else, not driving or letting someone else get behind the wheel while intoxicated, and not getting into the passenger seat of someone who is intoxicated, it could also teach ways to try to minimize the amount of distractions on the road.

Some steps that can be taken to reduce the number of deaths related to driving is that there could be more laws and bigger consequences. For instance, as of now, a first time offense of drinking and driving, the person will only serve up to 93 days, 430 hours of community service, or 500 dollar fine. This might not stop many people from avoiding drinking and driving. So they should up the consequences to a year in jail, 600 hours of community service, a 5,000 dollar fine, and take a 30 days of a drivers safety education course to really make people think and help avoid people from drinking and driving. Almost 40 people die a day from drunk driving incidents, this is why more laws should be put in place to help prevent this. More laws should be also passed in order to prevent texting and driving, each year around 400 people die from texting and driving incidents. Along with this, if people have a recurring problem with these issues, there should be more help groups and programs to help stop them from repeating it, and get them the help they need. Also, high schools and workplaces should give a speech on driver safety once a year in order to get the importance of safe driving stuck into people’s heads. With these new steps put into place, the number of deaths from driving should become much less.

I Have had a past experience of getting hit by someone who was drinking and driving. I was in 3rd grade, and my grandma, brother, and I were in the car driving home and not even 5 minutes away from the house, we got hit on the driver’s side of the car. I was behind the driver’s seat and my brother was behind the passenger seat. My brother was fine but I banged my head pretty hard on the window, while my grandma was in a much worse condition. They had to take the door off of the car in order to get my grandma out, so we were rushed to the hospital. The doctor did a checkup on my brother and I and gave us popsicles. My grandma was put in a walking boot, had crutches for a while, and a really bad and big bruise on her leg and ankle. When my grandma saw the car coming straight at us she tried what she could in the short amount of time to protect my brother and I the best she could. We could have died that day, and my family could have lost a mother and 2 children. This is why I’m very passive on the ways we should prevent drunk driving from occurring and other driving issues.

Some steps I could take to become a safer driver are to continue turning my phone on silent but also to start putting it out of reach. I could try being more observant when I’m driving and of those around me, and especially pay more attention to animals on the road when driving late at night. I also would make sure that if I’m playing music, to make sure it;s not loud and that I can still hear my surroundings. Some ways I could help others is to tell them to do the same thing and to make sure I don’t let them get behind the wheel if they are intoxicated, whether or not that means taking their keys from them. I would also not let them get into another car with someone who is planning on driving while under the influence; I would offer to give them a ride if they have been drinking, and have no way of getting home. I take safe driving very seriously, and always try to make sure that myself and others are as safe as we can be while driving. I know the consequences that can happen if we don’t practice safe driving, the greatest being death.