Eyes On The Road

Driving is an everyday part of life and people take it for granted. Many people drive around whether it is to pick up some groceries or to go to work without it it would make life a hassle. Many drivers nowadays will drive around without releasing how dangerous driving actually is and will drive irresponsibly without thinking about what could happen and what the consequences might be. Those consequences might be just a minor crash in a parking lot because they were distracted while driving or something major like a head on collision that could have been caused by a number of reasons. One thing is for sure there are too many people out there that are reckless drivers. These drivers are very dangerous to the people around them. Someone could be the most experienced driver that hasn’t crashed in 20 years and all it takes is one reckless driver to come by and cause a lot of damage. These people truly are dangerous and the way to prevent people from becoming reckless drivers is to inform them of the dangers that they could be causing.

Many people are ill informed on driving and could be missing half of the information that they need. This is why drivers ed is so important because without it how are new drivers going to know that they have to yield on a green light when turning left or what the lines mean that are on the road. Drivers ed is also important because it can inform them of basic knowledge that a driver needs to know but it can also give them information on what to do in certain real life scenarios. All of these little things can give the information that drivers need to be able to drive safely and this could reduce the number of accidents and even deaths that happen on the road.

Now reducing the number of deaths is a big topic and the main thing that people think of is how they happen and how do you stop them from happening. There are many reasons to why there could have been a fatal accident on the road one person could have been driving irresponsibly under the influence and crashed into someone who didn’t even know they were coming or some friends are trying to have a great time and they are all driving in one care and they pressure the driver into hitting the gas and speeding to get a rush of excitement and this leads to the friend losing control and hitting someone or something causing an accident that they can’t recover from. There are many more unfortunate accidents that could happen out their but the main thing is how to stop them from happening and being responsible and accountable covers most of it as well as being informed. These two things solve most problems that are out there on the road for example if someone was just hammered after a party on a friday night all they need to do is have someone call an uber to get them or have someone who didn’t drink drive them home if they are responsible and plan ahead people driving under the influence would become uncommon another example is texting while driving this can be solved by leaving your phone out of site when your driving you can put it in a bag or compartment in the car away from you so you are not tempted to look at the phone and take away your eyes from the road. There are many solutions and steps that people can take to prevent accidents happening on the road they just need to be willing to take those necessary steps.

As for personal experience on reckless driving, I have never been in an accident but I have been in a car with my friends where I wasn’t the driver but they were driving like a psycho just to have a little bit of fun, Of course my friends were having fun but I could not shake the feeling of anxiety when being in the car with him speeding down the road at a crazy pace. My parents on the other hand have also had experience with car accidents and reckless driving more so than I have and they have endless stories to tell about them. One experience is from my dad and he has told me this countless number of times but he and his friend grew up in the middle of Nebraska in a small town with no more that a thousand people in it so you can imagine there is not a whole lot you can do to have some fun and so they took his best friends dad’s car out for a spin and they drove all over even down to Lincoln and on their way back they took a exit ramp way to quickly and lost control of the car on the turn and flew off of the ramp and tumbled down the hill thy were okay in the end but My his friend’s dad just about killed them for crashing his car and this all happened because he decided to drive irresponsibly trying to have fun.

This experience that my dad shared with me made me a safer driver because it opened my eyes to see that when you’re driving around with your friend looking for something to do you can’t throw safety out the window to have fun and it has probably saved me a few times from peer pressure. It also pushed me to take more steps towards being a safer driver on the road some of those steps are being cool headed when driving and keeping my focus on the road ahead but there is always more I need to work on like increasing my spacial awareness and what is happening around me if I can locate what could be a issue or even a danger before it happens it could save me from a lot of trouble. These are some of the steps I need to take to become a safer driver every day and to help me keep my eyes on the road.