Reasons to be a Safe Driver

Reasons To Be A Safe Driver

I feel that driver education is very important because most teens do not realize all the distractions there are and the amount of responsibility there is to drive. I have seen many accidents driving that it is never fun to see someone hurt because of a careless driver. Driving is a privilege, and most people do not take that into consideration.

A major step everyone should take to reduce deaths in driving would be NO MORE CELL PHONES!!!! Even having your phone on Bluetooth does not help matters and still distracts people while they are driving. Another step to take would be not letting kids getting their license at such a young age. Lastly, I feel each person who goes for their license should be taking some kind of driving class to reduce accidents on the road.

Back when I was in high school in 2006, there were two classmates that chose to race some guy on the road. They got in a major car accident and the girlfriend who was in the passenger seat died at the scene of the accident and the boyfriend ended up in a coma. It was so devastating to know that she was not going to graduate with everyone, and the boyfriend had to wake up from his coma and live the rest of his life knowing that he killed someone because he wanted to race somebody.

It is always horrific when you lose a family member due to a motorcycle accident. Many motorcycle accidents are caused by people not paying attention to a motorist while they are driving next to them. Also, motorist do not take the extra precaution by paying more attention to their surrounding vehicles around them.

Another life experience I encountered was when I was leaving my brother’s place after Thanksgiving, I was on I95 and was going the speed limit of 70mph. Some guy that was driving behind me just ran right into the back of my car. I was so thankful that I had my seatbelt on, or I would have gone through the window. My car was totaled because of the gentleman hitting me so hard my seatbelt completely broke and was not fixable.

Lasty, another experience is a result of teenagers texting and driving. In Fairport, NY there were about four cheerleaders that were seniors driving down the road while it was pitch black outside. The driver was texting her friend and was not paying attention to the road. She ended up weaving into the other lane which there was a big 18-wheel truck driving and hit them head on. All the cheerleaders died at the scene and they missed their graduation because texting somebody while driving was so important at the time.

After living in New York where it snows and now living in Georgia, it has made me a very cautious driver. Whether driving in a snowstorm and dealing with black ice or driving around big log trucks and watching to make sure no logs fall from the trucks.

In the future in driving, the main steps I would always and still take into consideration is always to be cautious with other drivers around you. Never talk or even text on your cell phone and make you get distracted from the road. I personally feel that in some states the age requirement to get a license should be changed. I did not get my license until I was 17 years old because my mom knew that I was not ready to drive on my own. When I see a 15 year-old kid getting their license it definitely does scare me because they should at least take a driving course or class to teach them the proper procedures to drive on the road. I believe if more people, including myself, actually spoke to young kids to help them understand on how serious driving is then maybe they would be more cautious on the road.

Reasons why I express more kids than adults in being in accidents is because I did some research. On the cdc.gov website it expresses, “In 2018, almost 2,500 teens in the United States aged 13–19 were killed, and about 285,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes.¹ That means that every day, about seven teens aged 13–19 died due to motor vehicle crashes, and hundreds more were injured. In addition, fatal and nonfatal motor vehicle crash injuries among teens 13–19 years of age resulted in about $11.8 billion in medical and work loss costs for crashes that occurred in 2018.” It also demonstrates that the six main risk factors for deaths are inexperience, nighttime and weekend driving, not using seatbelts, distracting drivers, speeding, and alcohol use.