What phone call will your love ones be receiving?

What
phone call will your love ones be receiving?

As
we enter a new decade, we hear more and more that young drives
between 16 and 18 are the most at risk for accidents. Could it be for
the lack education into it or friend’s influencing bad ideas behind
the wheel or it’s because Young drivers are lacking how important
the education is to drive which leads to accidents. IN the research
I’ve found 16-19-year old’s lack of using the technique that is
taught from drivers ed, for example here are some techniques that
are done by drivers and none have passed 50%. “visual scanning
(ahead, to the sides and to the rear—43.6%), poor attention
maintenance (23.0%), and inappropriate speed management (20.8%).”
(Pradhan et al., 2005). Drivers ed is not mandatory course
but perhaps should be because it covers all the laws on the road. It
helps teach skills and the basic essential to operate a car. Gives
you an idea of what to do if something has gone wrong. It doesn’t
just prepare you but also helps keep others safe, but most
importantly helps you stay safe by lowering the numbers of accidents
in young drivers.

Continuing
to encourage teenagers to take the drivers ed we can
introduce it to them in other ways. Drivers ed may not be a
choice to everyone, but a way we can reduce the price would be to
make a deal between high schools and drivers’ education. If they do
it through the company with the school, it should be cheaper and
allowed to be paid in payments just like they do for student fees.
Most people would think you should make it mandatory for the young
adults but in today’s reality we cannot all afford it.

From
my own experience I have been through accidents and have close ones
crash as well. I have taken the drivers ed myself but during my
car accident I was not the one driving. I’ve had classmates drive
behind the wheel under the influence, I’ve seen many of my peers
drive very treacherously being way over the speed limit or on their
phones. Phones have been a huge distraction and most people can say
it’s a habit of checking it. During some of the accidents I’ve
seen happen from close relatives or my peers is because the law was
broken. One flipped the car and it rolled few times and all are lucky
to be alive, I know some who were going three time the speed limit in
a small neighborhood and crashed into a tree with a full car. Even
from cities around me that I may have not known personally but played
sports against have crashed the car and none had survived. Sadly, it
happens every day and car accidents are known for the most common
death between 16 to 20-year old.

In
my honest opinion I would have never been prepared without my drivers
ed. It taught me all the right things any driver should know, not
just a young driver. There are many solutions out there that can
resolve the reckless driving. We could acknowledge the fact that
driving over the speed limit or doing reckless driving to show off to
your friends won’t make you as any better or popular but a high
risk for everyone’s life. Being cautious and arriving home instead
of the loved ones receiving a phone call is always going to be valued
way more than going 120 in a 60 km speed limit.

Madison
Burns