Name: A.C. Wright
From: New York, New York
Votes: 0
My name is A.C.
Wright and the first thing you should know about me is that I don’t
drive.
It’s not from
lack of trying, I have been struggling to drive for years. For me,
it’s the weight of
the huge
responsibility of having other lives in my hands while clumsily
maneuvering a large
vehicle.
I live in
Southern California and unfortunately, it lives up to its reputation
for reckless driving.
One of the major
causes of driving fatalities is speeding. As I write this, on the
news; a vacationing
married couple
celebrating their anniversary in San Francisco, were hit by a
speeding car while
crossing a
crosswalk at an intersection. The woman seeing the oncoming car,
tried to shield her
husband. She
survived, her husband didn’t.
The driver, a
twenty-one-year-old woman, was arrested and booked for vehicular
manslaughter.
A San Francisco
spokesperson has stated that there have been discussions for a
proposal for
designing changes
and re-engineering for the streets to slow down speeders.
That seems to be
a big issue in many areas. Poorly designed intersections can confuse
drivers and cause
accidents,
including those that don’t have stop signs, or traffic lights are
incredibly dangerous.
Sometimes drivers
can’t see the stop signs that are there due to overgrown shrubbery
and/or objects
blocking a clear
view. Fixing this can help reduce accidents.
Distracted
driving is another cause of fatalities. People will eat, talk or
text on their phones, shave, etc,
as they drive.
My father had his own experience when we lived in North Carolina.
It was winter and
snow had fallen overnight. The next morning, my father, being
concerned about being
late for work,
tried to speed along the icy roads. He ended up losing control and
rolled the car off the
road into a
ditch. The car was totaled! It was a miracle that he hadn’t
killed himself or someone else.
Amazingly, he
came out of it relatively unscathed.
There’s no
destination so important that you endanger yourself or the lives of
others to reach it.
I do intend to
learn to drive. The best thing I can do to be a safe driver is to
become a good defensive
driver. Setting a
good example by following the rules and constantly surveying the
roads as I’m driving,
would give me the
ability to make snap decisions to maneuver and possibly avoid
oncoming danger,
keeping myself
and others as safe as I can. Having taken the drive’s permit test
more times than I care
I care to admit;
in different states, I believe drivers ed in America is quite
informative in general.
Unfortunately,
you can’t force people to follow the rules of safe driving. The
best thing to be done
is to, as I ‘ve
mentioned before, be a responsible and conscientious driver. If, we
all do that there
would more than likely be fewer deaths by driving.
