Respect When Driving

The way to avoid or reduce death while driving is having respect for others. I noticed that when one respect the driving rules less car crashes happen. If one uses turning signals, respects the red lights, or respects the speed limit the less risk of death.

When my family has been involved in car accidents they occur because someone wasn’t respecting the traffic laws. On one occasion a person didn’t respect the stop sign and they crashed from the back causing a lot of pain to my father and having to deal with insurance. Another time has been my mom was waiting at a red light and the person behind her was using his phone and he got distracted and accidentally let go of the brake causing the car to move forward crashing into my mom’s car.

I also think that one must have self-respect and respect for others when driving. I seen multiple times in the news how drivers have been intoxicated and got into fatality crashes killing multiple innocent lives. An example of this is Henry Ruggs III, an ex-Raiders Football team player, got into a car crashed causing the death of one person. Ruggs was intoxicated at speeding whenever he killed the innocent woman. He is facing multiple years of prison because of his actions that could have been avoided if he had respected laws and the life of others. There has been teachers and multiple people in my life who has told me how driving is a privilege, not a right. Drivers need to remember that every single time they turn the key to turn on the car. This privilege should not be taken for granted, and the moment that people got their drivers license they should have known that laws were made for a reason. These laws help maintain safety and reduce deaths. Maybe a person doesn’t respect themselves and that could be the reason they drink and drive, but they should still be more considerate of others. People need to respect themselves regardless and should use a seatbelt, take care of the car, which includes oil changes, inspections, and check that brakes and tires are on good conditions. This simple respecting idea can help avoid and reduce deaths.

Whenever I was getting taught how to drive my dad told me something, and he said, “Respect is the key to happiness, peace, and the way to avoid problems.” He told me how respecting your lane, respecting people’s space when driving and not being reckless is the key to being okay in life and for others to be okay. In my experience with what I seen and heard, for example in Texas, people need to apply this idea when driving. I have seen in the past how in Texas highways people don’t respect the speed limit because they see one is speeding so the other does it as well. I have seen before how the person I am in the car is struggling to drive in highways because the person behind them is honking at them or getting close to them because they are going at the speed limit. People don’t respect these laws and I seen in videos how people get into car crashes at the highway, most of them are fatal crashes, because they are speeding or drunk driving and sometimes even just road rage. I saw a video before a person getting road rage because the person in front of them are following the laws, so they try to swerve in between the car, and they crash into another car. Recently on the news I also saw how there was a person who was speeding, and the car lost control, and the car ended up going into a home killing a dad and his daughter.

I feel people and kids should have to pay for unnecessary or avoidable mistakes from others. If people respected others and themselves this could help reduce deaths in the future. It would be much better if people understood that others have problems, or they also must go to a place. A person shouldn’t die because a person was late to a meeting or job or because they were out partying. In a situation like that is better to be late than to never go to that meeting or even worse cause the other person to never go back home. Hopefully people with time learn is all about the golden rule. Don’t do something you wouldn’t want others to do. If you don’t like people cutting in front of you or people reckless driving, then don’t do it as well.