Patience

Patience

We
all have accident stories that we know of or have been apart of.
Whether it was our fault or not, I don’t think that more drivers
education will help make better drivers. I think teaching people to
be nicer and to have more patience will help with the accidents. Most
of the accidents that occur are because one of the drivers is in a
made rush to get to their destination and the other is just following
the rules of the road, get cut off, try to stop in time, and then
they hit the speedy car in front of them or get rear ended by the guy
behind them that didn’t get the chance to even react.

That is what happened in my accident, my aunt, cousin, and I were
heading to a concert during the summer. It was a beautiful day, the
sun was out and beating down on the car. As we were driving this
person zooms past us and cuts in front of us and because there was no
space for another car where they were they stopped immediately
causing my aunt to react. She slammed on the breaks and he slid and
stopped right before hitting the car in front of us. Right as I was
about to say “what the hell was that person thinking”, a
ford pickup rear ended us, making our car hit the car that cut us
off. Calm as clam, I got out of the car called the police, then I
called my parents to let them know what happened. The police officers
showed up asked everyone there story and then left. After going to
the hospital, finding out nothing was wrong, I headed home. I later
found out that the car who caused the wreck tried to tell the police
we hit them first and that it was our fault. I was very upset because
they were trying to get money to fix what they caused.

Not
even a month later, the same kind of accident happened exactly where
my accident happened, because people are inpatient and couldn’t just
wait in the line of traffic an extra five minutes. We need drivers
that aren’t constantly in a rush and that can just have a little
more patience with life.