Name: Victoria Philp
From: Ellensburg, Washington
Votes: 0
It’s Not Worth a Life
No one ever forgets the first time they are in a car accident, that
moment when life flashes before your eyes and all that is going
through the mind is panic. I was six the first time I was in a car
accident, my mom had been driving the car through Seattle traffic, it
was a classic case of people stopping too fast, my mother had been
lucky enough to stop intime but the car behind us was not, all I
could remember hearing was the screeching of tires before our car was
hit. The gentleman who had hit us had been on his cell phone talking,
causing a slow reaction on hitting the break and on top of that did
not have insurance, two very illegal things for any driver.
Cell phones had
still been a relatively new danger to the driving community at that
time, people truly thought they could multitask, but time and time
again car accidents showed just how wrong people were. Yet even with
the threat of death coming from impaired driving with a cell phone
there are still thousands of people who do it every day, they don’t
think of the impact it will leave. A car crash does not just affect
the two people who may have been driving but anyone who may have been
close to them, their family, friends, and coworkers that could be
hundreds of people.
The best way to cement just how much danger a cell phone causes on
any driving experience would be showing just how dangerous it is.
Impaired driving is impaired driving, it doesn’t matter how it’s
done but it should all be treated just as equally, drinking and
driving as well as texting and driving are both forms of impaired
driving and both could lead to a DUI. Yet when I learned about the
rules of the road drinking and driving had its own chapter while
texting and driving was more of a bullet point under the “What to
not do while driving” section. Leaving such a harmful action to
only one bullet point of lesson makes it seem not has harmful of an
action to be doing while driving and to the youth of today who can be
glued to their phones that is not a positive message to be sending to
them or anyone with a phone. Not only informing these new drivers but
having classes that are easy for them to access, will show just how
dangerous driving any vehicle can be, this is a object made of metal
that can way up to an elephant and sometimes going 60 mph and we act
as though it is nothing.
Learning the rules of the road firmly and clearly while young and
refreshing up on them every 5 years should be the law, because no
life should ever be lost or threatened due to an impaired driver.
