Name: William J Spak
From: Burlington, Connecticut
Votes: 0
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Will |
Safe
driving
Not many students understand
the importance of safe driving as I do. As an Emergency Medical
Technician, I have plenty of knowledge about the subject. In my class
they showed us pictures, told us horrifying stories of driving
incidents that happened not far away from our town. Hearing the
viewpoint of first-hand witnesses to incidents that happened just
down the road is quite grueling. In addition to being an EMT, I’m
also a high school student, and I know plenty of people in my class
that took drivers ed class as a joke and will joke around in their
cars on the road, racing their friends. Drivers ed is
something that shouldn’t be taken for granted. When I took drivers
ed I got 8 hours of time on the road with a skilled instructor. Those
8 hours took all of the book-knowledge I got from class and put it to
use. I learned things with my instructor that I simply could not
learn from the book. It is so vital that teens take drivers ed
because people who don’t take drivers ed are 24% more likely to get
into an accident. If everyone took drivers ed, there would be less
accidents for a fact.
Deaths
resulting from motor-vehicle accidents have taken the lives of about
40,000 people in just the US for three years in a row. Many more
people are injured or disabled from them. What can be done about this
is reinforcing drivers ed, make it absolutely required to take by
anyone who wants to get their license. However, if it’s required,
then I don’t believe it should be 500$, at least not for families
who cannot afford it. Alongside this we should make it more of a
stricter class, as I mentioned previously many students didn’t care
about the class and just joked around on their phones, this should
not be allowed.
I’ve
been in numerous cars where people pull out their phones to send a
text, even my own mother, and I just don’t stand for it, I’m not
mean about it or anything, but I just ask them to put their phone
down, or I’ll offer to send the text for them. One incident that
sticks with me is when my brother got into a car accident, it was
right in front of me and I was only 7 years old. My mother, father
and I were behind him in a car and he pulled out of the driveway only
to get slammed by someone speeding down the road who blew a stop
sign. He ended up being okay, but it was still a scarring event.
In
order to further improve my driving, I have been driving with my
father, who is an experienced driver, to make sure I have a thorough
understanding of all traffic laws. I would like to help others be
safer on the road by creating awareness of the issue of unsafe
driving, and how it affects many people.
