Driver Education

Elizabeth M. Harvey

Drivers Education Essay

Drivers Education

While every teenager looks forward to being able to drive a car most do not think of the safety and responsibility behind operating a motor vehicle. In my opinion there are more requirements that we could mandate to ensure that teenagers take the extra time to assume the severity and responsibility behind driving or operating a vehicle. This is just a few of my suggestions.

I personally lost my brother and two of his good friends in a car wreck on my dad’s birthday. I had just got out of the car with my brother and no one was using drugs or alcohol. My brother like many teenage boys just liked hot rod cars and going fast. I never looked at a vehicle as being like a weapon until the day it took all three if their young lives. It is so important to make sure that young people learning how to drive take driver’s education to teach them the rules if the road, what street signs look like and meanings, as well as teach them how to drive with someone who can teach them and them actually listen and learn. It could cost them or someone else their lives. It is that serious a matter of life or death. In my opinion it should be a mandatory course to graduate high school to take drivers education when you turn fifteen years of age along with a driver permit. In my opinion I think the young driver should have to have at least a year holding a permit before they ate allowed to take the driving test. I also think before they are issued a license that a certain number of hours of defensive driving and maintenance of a vehicle class should be implemented. In doing this I think it would reduce the number of deaths caused by teenage drivers. As I stated before I witnessed my brother and his two friends die as a result of a car crash that could have been prevented. While there were no drugs or alcohol in their systems, my brother was speeding and accidentally hit a mailbox and when he tried to correct, he overcorrected and hit a small tree. The speed and force are what killed them and this could have been prevented. Since witnessing this tragic event I no longer speed in fact my friends say that I drive like a grandma. I also take a few seconds longer after I am stopped at a red light when it turns green just in case another driver isn’t paying attention. I also obey all the rules of the road that I was given in my driver’s manual.