Name: Alexandrea Pestana
From: San Diego, California
Votes: 0
Alexandrea
Pestana
October
28, 2019
You
Can’t Drive If You’re Dead
Driver
education is crucial to decreasing the number of deaths caused by
driving. Education teaches new drivers the importance of being alert
and aware of one’s surroundings. Teaching drivers how to follow the
rules of the road and at the same time keeping themselves and other
well out of the way of harm. A simple way to reduce driving deaths,
driving schools and instructors should carefully monitor their
students’ downfalls and faults to better create a curriculum that
will help them be a better driver, passenger, and pedestrian.
I
have been very fortunate to have never been in a car accident. But
sadly, I have witnessed friends and fellow students driving
irresponsibly. I have seen many of them rip through the school
streets endangering other students but that is not their worst
offense. I have also seen many kids leaving a party in their drunk
friends car or getting in their own while buzzed. These actions both
endanger the driver, the others in the car, and most of all everyone
else on the road. When kids do these things, they are neglecting
their good-driver training and are choosing to put people in danger.
One
of the things I could do to help myself become a better driver is
re-teach myself the rules of the road and to always be consciously
aware of what I’m doing, where I’m going and if I’m being a
safe driver. Many times, I catch myself just staring through the
windshield and not aware that I am in control of a machine that could
injure and kill an absurd amount of people in just a matter of
seconds.
I
think one of the few things I could do to help lessen the number of
injuries caused by dangerous driving, is bring awareness to the
statistics that incriminate teenagers as the main cause for dangerous
driving. I should help notify students of the consequences that could
arise because of their actions. Every driver needs to realize that
all of their actions have consequences and that it is important for
them to be making conscious decisions that will keep them and others
safe.
