Driver Education… It Could Save Your Life

The use of driver education is so important in reducing driving related deaths. Especially now since there are fancier cars and many people drive without paying attention. Driving education helps kids at a young age learn to drive responsibly. Whether that be in a car with an adult driver or even with a curriculum online teaching kids. People up to the age of 25 can make bad decisions due to their brain not being fully developed. My school has a drivers ed program. I personally think this is a great idea to have in a school district. This helps kids be smart with their driving and other people’s driving. Also, since you’re taking lessons with the instructor before your test, the instructor knows how you have improved. Maybe if you are not super great at something and need more practice before getting your actual drivers license. That can make a huge difference compared to just going to a DMV and hoping you got everything right and everything goes smoothly. All the driver restrictions are good rules to have in place for young kids with their permit or newly with their license. Even just new adult drivers.Them being educated and knowing the risks of driving irresponsibly can hopefully make them pick the right decision.Many steps can be taken to reduce the number of deaths related to driving. Just simply making sure people are educated and making sure no one around you is going to drive in a bad situation. Another step to help reduce the number of deaths is to drive like you are going to get into an accident. For example, at a stop sign always look both ways, don’t do a rolling stop. You never know who could be blowing through a stop sign because they don’t see it or someone doesn’t care. Unfortunately some kids in my school have made poor decisions and have driven irresponsible.That made major impacts on them. Also, in my community there have been multiple car accidents from people speeding, blowing through top signs, just not paying attention, etc. Just recently a car blew through a stop sign and killed the two people in the other car.The two people had two little kids that were at daycare. Now for the rest of the person’s life, they have the guilt of killing two innocent parents. Another incident I know of where there was dangerous driving. Is a man took a curve way too fast. He ended up striking another car on the opposite side of the road. She ended up passing away on impact. She was young and a teacher. She had 3 sons and about a month after the crash, her son ended up going to states for wrestling. Her family and the school district suffered a great loss. There were many posts and reposts about these two accidents. I had a friend just about this time last year, her car was totaled by an elderly lady blowing through a red light. My friend was okay but she couldn’t drive for months after. She was very scared. But when she did start driving she was so careful. This is a way for people to see with their own eyes how driving recklessly can affect not just you. But other drivers are on the road with you. Just over TikTok, there are TikToks about people almost getting themselves in a car accident. Just because they were not paying attention. Now they put themselves in”timeout” for not paying attention. There are many different steps that can be taken to make yourself and other drivers safer on the road. For example, not making those TikToks popular because we do not want driving to be normalized just like that. Making sure you know that, that is not okay. You should have been focused from the beginning. Make sure you are educated and the people around you are educated on bad driving and the consequences it could happen. ( An accident can happen within seconds. You always need to be alert.) Also, if anyone you know of has bad driving habits make sure you help them or get them help. If you can try to talk them out of driving if you know they should not be driving. Try to convince them to call for an uber or a taxi. Remind them of what could happen due to their reckless driving. Knowing not to get into a car with someone you don’t feel comfortable with can sometimes save your life.