Drivers ed Safety

Driver
Education Safety

Marely
Uriostegui-Flores

1-25-2020

Drivers ed
is one of the most important things you can have before getting
behind the wheel. So important that you can’t even get a license
without it. Drivers Ed is required for a reason, so that everyone
knows how to be safe on the road. Sadly , some people still manage to
drive unsafe, or get behind the wheel with no drivers ed. The
lack of education for some of these drivers result in many car
accidents and deaths, which is something that needs to change.

Some steps
everyone can take to reduce the chances of this happening could be to
review drivers ed everytime they need to renew their license, or even
enforce bigger consequences when someone gets in a slight car
accident or isn’t driving properly. Of course people usually get
tickets for this, but what would help more might be having to take
drivers ed classes to be reminded of how they should be driving
before things could go worse.

One drivers
safety rule that’s very important to me is to never drive if you’re
too tired. This is a common rule for truck drivers or anyone going on
road trips. Drowsy driving makes you to lose focus on the road and
can cause some serious accidents for yourself and other drivers on
the road. I have never been in a car accident before, but my dad has
caused many. When I was younger, my dad worked all day, everyday.
Having two jobs, he’d go to work from 5am to 1pm, come home and
nap, and leave for work again around 4 until 12am. He’d leave for
work everyday in a rush and running off of very little sleep. I think
he’s crashed at least 4 cars due to dozing off on the road or just
being too tired to really focus on what he’s doing. Thankfully, my
dad always walked away just fine from the crashes, but it was a huge
hassle to only have one car for a while and struggle to buy a new one
every time. We didn’t let him drive anywhere for a long time , or
we’d get very worried any time he did. Casualties like these are
what we want to avoid, because it really does affect everyone around
you.

I can proudly say
this hasn’t happened anymore since I was in elementary. My dad
still has both jobs but he’s working less hours and finally getting
a fair amount of sleep. I think the fact that these accidents
happened continuously and that we took them very seriously, helped
him realize this was a problem he really needed to take care of. Over
time he dropped more work hours and picked up sleep hours. My mom
constantly nagging at him really helped him make sure he was careful
because he didn’t want to have to deal with being driven around
everywhere anymore. You can take simple steps like these to help
motivate any friends or family to take better precautions and be safe
while driving. Tough love can be very effective.