Name: William Kolvek
From: Omaha, Nebraska
Votes: 0
Safe
driving is something to be taken very seriously and could be a matter
of life and death. Too many times driving is taken for granted and
people use cars and other motor vehicles as toys and do not realize
how truly powerful they are. Being responsible while driving a motor
vehicle is very important.
When
driving a motor vehicle, you are tasked with many responsibilities.
You must be fully aware of your surroundings, focused on the road and
nothing else, sober, fully alert, old enough to drive, responsible,
and you are also tasked with many other responsibilities. Driving a
motor vehicle is a privilege and can easily be taken away. Being a
safe driver is very important and requires the individual to be
smart, experienced, responsible and alert.
There
are many laws today that do the best they can to prevent motor
vehicle crashes, but people must follow the laws for them to work,
and even when following the law, things are not guaranteed. Laws
dealing with speed limits, distracted driving and driving under the
influence are meant to help protect citizens and keep the roads as a
safe place to be. Too many times, you find that people “dislike”
these rules and feel that they are above the law and should not have
to follow them, but in the end, no person is invincible and everybody
needs to follow simple laws. A lot of accidents are avoidable, as
long as the drivers are aware of their surroundings and make smart
decisions.
The
number one cause of motor vehicle accidents is distracted driving.
The main distraction is that phone that everyone is addicted to. That
phone makes a little jingle and you just have to know who it is from
and what they want, so instead of waiting for the destination, you
reach down and grab your phone open it up and read your text message.
Individuals that text and drive are 23 percent more likely to get in
a car accident from those who don’t. At this point your eyes have
been off the road for more than six seconds and by going 55 miles per
hour, you have traveled more than the length of a football field, if
you did not already hit something. After reading the text, people
feel compelled to respond as soon as they can, so once again instead
of waiting for their destination, they send back that message and
again travel a long distance with their eyes off the road and their
mind focused on their phone instead of the road. Distracted driving
is very dangerous and that text message can wait. Eleven teens die
every day from texting and driving. It is also not just the teens,
while 90 percent of adults said they knew texting and driving was
dangerous, 49 percent admitted they do text and drive. The numbers
are astounding and distracted driving accidents are avoidable. Put
your phone away until you reach your destination then you can deal
with the texts and phone calls.
Driving
responsibly is a very important task for every individual. Motor
vehicles are not toys and using them as toys can flip your life and
many other lives upside down. People are not invincible no matter if
they believe they are. Think about the lives that are in your hand
the next time you turn that key and put the car in drive. The way you
act behind the wheel is very important. While everybody is guilty of
not driving safely at one point or another, we can change that right
now and start making the roads a safe place for people to be. Always
drive safely.
