Consequences of Driving

I’ve experienced a traumatic car crash in 2012. My mother drove me to Target for a few essential items; however, the car across from us ran through the stop sign and crashed into us while we made a turn at the 4 way stop. Despite there being no deaths or injuries, I remained incredibly fearful to enter a car throughout the next year. Currently, there are many people that continue to engage in unnecessary and dangerous actions that include: DWI, DWT, driving while eating, remaining distracted, and speeding that lead to numerous deaths, injuries, and trauma. To prevent this, everyone should be mandated to enroll in and pass an accelerated driver’s education program, and everyone needs to implement responsibility and communication skills before driving to ensure safety within the community.

Everybody in the United States, regardless of age, should be required to take a driver’s ed course to earn their license. This includes a classroom course and behind the wheel practice to understand the laws of the road without the feeling of uncertainty and apprehension. Drivers education will not only inform students about the importance of remaining safe within the classroom, it will enforce the needed skills through the behind the wheel lessons in the second half of the program. The driver’s ed instructors will supervise the student and make useful and important suggestions on the road. Equally important, the other student in the back is able to observe and learn from the instructor as the class continues. In addition, families should also emphasize and teach the vital skills to remain safe on the road to their loved ones, besides the drivers education course, to acknowledge the significance in safety driving. Knowledge about safety on the road is substantial, and everyone should take the driver’s ed class to learn these skills to implement a sense of understanding and responsibility that can save lives.

Responsibility and communication are both essential to reduce the number of deaths and injuries in relation to driving. Small changes in behaviors can lead to everlasting consequences. Huge changes are necessary and the contributing causes to this level of depression, sadness, and death rates is due to the deprivation of responsibility. For example, according to the National Safety Council, “Every year about 100,000 reported accidents involve drowsy driving. These crashes result in more than 1,550 fatalities and 71,000 injuries.” Therefore, this concept of responsibility needs to be strongly enforced within the driving programs and at home to reduce driving incompetency. So, people with the following symptoms include: overwhelming sense of fatigue, muscle pain, and inability to concentrate and make wise decisions, they need to communicate with dependable ones that they aren’t capable of driving in their current state. This is one specific example that conveys the importance in responsibility and communication that can reduce the number of deaths and create a safer community.

Drivers education, responsibility, and communication are the most underlying factors that will reduce deaths and enhance safety on the road. Therefore, I will continue to advocate for the significance of taking driver’s education and the needed communication to remain safe under these unprecedented times. I will also share my personal car crash experience to convey the potential consequences of irresponsible driving and the needed actions to prevent it.