Reduce the number of deaths related to driving

Steps can be taken to reduce the number of deaths related to driving

According to state laws, many states allow high school students and college students to drive a car on the road. But at the same time, data shows that most car accidents happen to drivers who are high school or college students. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol’s data, the age group most overrepresented in Missouri fatal traffic crashes is 25 to 34, and according to the National Safety Council’s data, the age group is 16 to 19 years old. From those data, we can say that traffic accidents are very common within the age group of 16 to 25. So, is there a solving method? Well, there is a lot of discussion about that.

First of all, let’s talk about driver education, I believe everyone will experience this step before they become a driver, but what is the importance of driver education? There are four main reasons to prove and show the importance of driver education. First Awareness of drugs and Alcohol, drugs and alcohol can impair the driver’s driving ability, such as slow coordination, judgment, and reaction times. If there is driver education for a teenager before they become a driver with a license, they can know better how drugs and alcohol can affect them. Second confidence, without a proper driver education, some young drivers always lack confidence. Of course, being too confident is not a good thing, but a lack of confidence also has the chance to cause a traffic accident, for example; stopping suddenly in the middle of the road because of scared or making wrong decisions because of nervous during driving. So if the driver can receive proper driver education from experienced drivers such as a teacher from driving school or their parents who know how to drive a car and have been driving for years, young drivers can know what’s correct and what’s wrong, just follow laws of the roads and they don’t have to be that nervous while they are driving their own. The fourth reason is improving safety when young drivers have a proper driver education they can understand how signs work and some real-life experience from an experienced driver. And they can gain a lot of experience through driver education, which can help to improve the safety of young drivers. The fourth reason is driving etiquette, a proper driver education can provide a good example to young drivers about driving etiquette. When you have good driving etiquette, for example; being patient and being serious during driving. Those will improve the safety of the young driver and other drivers on the road.

I have never experienced a traffic accident in a car before, nor my family or my friends. I guess we are a safe driver maybe. But not everyone is a safe and responsible driver. So what steps or methods can we take to become a good driver? First, how to become a better driver. Better means improve, so you need to improve from old skills to new skills. Sometimes young drivers don’t have a lot of road experience compared to adults who have driven for years, young drivers can observe how drivers with more experience drive on a road or ask questions about situations on the roads so that young drivers can learn more real-life experience about different situations. Besides that, young drivers can also start driving on some easy roads with fewer cars to gain experience so that if anything happens they won’t affect other drivers on the same road for example causing traffic or crashing into another car. And this method is also related to the second part, how to become a safer driver. As I just mentioned, a young driver who does not have a lot of experience can learn from someone who has it. It can help to improve safety. Young drivers also need to understand or revise the road signs before they drive, or some drivers forget what the sign means after the written test, they will need to take this step to mesmerize the road signs. Then, if you are all good with all of those steps, you are going to drive now, you just got in the car and you are in the driving seat now. There are also a few steps that you can take that can improve your safety and the safety of others before you drive. First, fasten your seatbelt that is important because that might save your life. And then adjust or check all your mirrors, because sometimes when someone else drives your car for some reason, they might adjust the mirrors making you unable to see the mirror clearly. And you are good to go!

Although sometimes traffic accidents might still happen because of different reasons such as weather. But in my opinion discussion of driver education and steps to become a safer and better driver is really important, at least young drivers can avoid accidents by what they can do.