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Driver Education Initiative – Don’t Make It Your Last Ride!

Name: Ankur
From: Brampton, Ontario
Votes: 0


Don’t
Make It Your Last Ride

The
importance of diver’s education should be critical for students and
for anyone try to get their drivers license. Most accidents could be
avoidable, knowing that education can save countless lives is huge.
Imagine being a mother hearing your son/daughter was killed in a car
accident and being told it was due to a lack of knowledge and could
have been prevented. This diver’s education will make drivers more
familiar with their vehicle and the capabilities of their motor
vehicle. Mistakes on the road are always likely to happen but
communication can prevent some situation that would conclude in a
collision can be avoided from proper driving methodology in every
situation when behind the wheel through a strong driver’s
education. If people that are trying to get their license learn
different ways to handle situations deaths will be avoidable and
these are peoples lives vehicles are weapons. Every diver must know
the capabilities of their motor vehicles. At the end of the day
drivers ed will always be worth it based on the few points
but most importantly if one hour of learning can save lives then it
will always be important.

Implementation
of drivers ed in high-schools, post-secondary and programs
for all communities. Making drivers ed a requirement when
trying to acquire a driver’s license can help reduce deaths and
accidents. Most new drivers are more prone to get into accidents
because they lack the experience of how to react in unpredictable
situations and this is also in relation to the lack of knowledge
about the capabilities of their motor vehicles. Drivers ed
can provide solutions to unpredictable situations because new drivers
can learn in a safe environment rather then facing these issues
head-on. Through studies of common accidents solutions can be made to
avoid the worst possible outcome. New drivers will also learn about
all the safety features about their vehicle, understanding all safety
features of the vehicles can prevent most issues as well. Making
drivers ed available for everyone will increase safe
driving techniques and every driver will have some form of safety
communication between each driver rather than being selfish and just
thinking about getting to point “B”, this helps bring a safety
moral when driving.

In
the beginning of 2018, I was in a devastating car accident. A year
prior to the car crash, I purchased my dream car with the help of my
dad. I wouldn’t call myself a professional driver, but I had good
experience and knew how to handle my car. During the winter I noticed
my car wasn’t easy to drive. on February 10
th,
during a snow storm on unplowed roads, at 1am on my way home from my
friends house my car slipped from one side of the road to oncoming
traffic getting myself into a head on collision. I was driving a
sudden and I got stuck by a heavy-duty SUV. During the crash, I
remember waking up to the horrifying crushed front end of my car and
the strong smell of motor oil burning my nose, other bystanders were
trying to help me get out of my car asking me if I was hurt. I didn’t
know how badly I was injured, ambulances came a few minutes right
after and took me to 3 different hospitals. I endured a lot of trauma
physically and mentally that night. The doctor said I was lucky to be
alive. Post-accident, my family was greatly worried for me that
night, they had no way to contact me so to them I was missing for 20
hours, frantically searching for me going to every hospital. I
couldn’t work and eventually had to let my position go due to the
physical demands from my job. Also, I had to re learn how to drive
again because I was traumatized by the accident. It’s has been a
year since then and I have recovered. I realized this all could have
been avoided if I had more experience driving in the snow and learned
the maneuvers when your car loses traction.

In
order to become a better driver can follow these steps that helps
understand situations and helps you get to point “A” to “B”
safely

Step
1: Drive with a clear mind, emotions can cloud your judgment

Step
2: keep your eyes on the road, using your phone can lead to death,
small mistakes have massive consequences

Step
3: Remember safety first always. When you get into the motor vehicle
you must put your seat belt on even if you are with other people.

Step
4: In correlation to the first step if you notice someone driving
spontaneously try to avoid them. Let them pass yield the way, trying
passively can be the smartest thing to do.

Step
5: As mentioned in the previous step yield the right of way as much
as possible.

Step
6: Try to change bad driving habits, for example: when people take
left turns they must go to the left most lane when they complete the
turn, but they tend to switch to the right lane and if it’s a two
lane road the person on the opposite side (of the person taking a
left turn) might just go for their right turn. This causes a
miscommunication resulting in a preventable collision.

Step
7: Try to plan out your trips. Drivers can check how the traffic is
at the time, and drive when there is less traffic or be more
cautious.

In
conclusion, following these steps as a community will build a form of
communication between all driver leading to less car accidents
therefore less deaths on the roads. Drivers ed course
implementation in order to get a driver’s license will benefit the
community as well by teaching everyone proper procedures and teach
new drivers how to drive through any situation.