The Importance Of Driving Safety And Education

The two most important aspects of driving as a whole. Driver’s education is essential when it comes to driving, it’s used so the average joe can learn how to drive, and do it safely. Drivers safety is the key to having less drivers getting off the road due to “preventable causes”. In drivers education you learn everything from just basic road signs, to advanced parking moves like J and K turns.

Drivers safety over the years after being taught in driving schools and most public schools. The numerous deaths across the board as a whole have died down. According to different sites, deaths per 100,000 people have been relatively low in recent times, as we get farther from the late 1900s and technology advances more people are aware and “woke” about the dangers of driving.

There have been solutions found that help prevent accidents and uncertain death when driving. This includes safer roadways, lights on almost every road in major cities and intersections, and safer vehicles that prevent human deaths if somehow something goes wrong. Different trinkets in certain vehicles like more affluent airbags, and technology where the car will break by itself if it senses immediate danger. There have been cases even where just certain members of my family have cut corners when driving, endangering themselves and other drivers.

Cases where even speeding on the interstate could’ve been the cost of multiple lives, one wrong move and it could’ve been over. One of my family members was speeding or doing “no hesi”. No hesi is a form of cutting through different lanes to overtake vehicles used by most street racers.

(Method is also used by regular pedestrians in most cases when people drive slowly in the fast lanes.) At a certain point the family member almost ran into the back of a logging truck. In the next lane there were several vehicles that were at risk if something happened to that said truck.

In other instances there were times I could be driving with my own father and truckers would be riding our bumper, knowing that easily our car could’ve been torn apart so we’d move out the way. Sometimes these drivers would be in such a rush they’d go in the right lane (the lane usually dedicated for cars) to pass slower cars.

There’s so many clauses that could play out while you’re on the open road like the ones I just listed; ranging from near death experiences to minor mishaps and fender benders. I’ve never truly been in a car accident before though. I’ve witnessed a couple accidents, one was fatal. Driver infront for no reason decided to brake check the driver behind him, being that the driver behind him was moving at an alarming rate with seemingly bad breaks, he rammed into the left side of the brake checkers bumper

Causing the old vehicle to go airborne, and flip over.

I pray that the driver is okay, but I don’t know what happened to them after. If this driver was somewhat far away from the next pedestrian, he’d have enough time to brake and slow down. But instead that driver ended up in a horrible accident, all because of someone’s wrongdoing with no way of stopping it due to his positioning on the road.

I’m almost of age to drive, but I refuse to make any mistakes on the road knowing itll cost me and someone else’s life, given the situation it could be a couple people, or even a whole family. Someone’s wife and kids could be gone because of one fatal mistake on a freeway, all because of a tiny advantage that could’ve been taken just seconds later so an accident doesn’t happen.

For now the steps I’ll take will be very minimal, but they’ll be little things that can help out my family with driving when I’m in their passenger seat. Little things like staying awake in the car, helping to direct them and making sure they stay off the phone during the whole trip. Being a lookout for any drivers who look uneasy, swerve and or seem drunk in the driver’s seat. While this is technically a form of backseat driving my over analysis has helped when it came to cars behind me and my father not following the spacing rule, drunk drivers, and unwanted attention from cops looking to serve a ticket.

To eighteen wheelers using their turn signals in wrong spots, to protect his blindspots in 4 way intersections. Driver safety and education is arguably one of the most important things you’ll learn in the school system. Without it, death and disparity would be in our streets almost daily, per hundred thousand people.