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Driver Education Initiative – Safe Driving

Name: Madilyn Jean Roy
From: Garden City, MI
Votes: 0

Safe Driving


Driving is not all fun and games. Receiving a driver’s license
is not a privilege bestowed lightly. When a driver pulls onto the
road, they are putting the lives of their fellow man and themselves
at risk due to the immense damage they could commit behind the wheel.
In order to avoid harmful crashes, a drivers ed course must
be taken in order for a person to earn their license. Taking a
drivers ed ensures that the new license recipient has been
properly educated on the rules of the road which allows a new driver
avoid getting into accidents while they are on the road. In fact,
people who fail to take a drivers ed course are 24% more likely to
cause/ be in an accident within their first year of driving. To
ensure that these courses are taken the government must enforce the
importance of taking drivers ed classes and forbid anyone from
receiving their license unless they have taking the required classes.
The government must also increase the amount of restrictions new
drivers encounter to ensure that each person learns to respect the
freedom of driving a vehicle. Horrific events cause people to act
cautiously in similar situations. On Memorial Day weekend 2016, my
family and I were in route pulling our camper up north to spend the
holiday weekend camping. An hour away from home, our peaceful voyage
took a drastic change. One minute we were ironically talking about
the importance of wearing seatbelts and the next we had slammed
head-on into a concrete barrier. Our lives could have been terminated
in a mere ten seconds. The family suburban and camper were totaled,
with no chance of repair, but none of us cared because we all walked
away. Later, we discovered that the accident occurred due to a divot
we hit in a construction zone, causing the camper to bounce, flip and
jackknife into the suburban. From that day on, every person in my
family has driven within the speed limit and with extreme caution
whenever we hit the road. I can make every person’s driving
experience safer by sharing my story of my family’s incident and
spreading the importance of taking one’s time while especially when
in a construction zone. I can also check the weather forecast and
prepare properly for the driving conditions of the day to assist in
securing the safety of myself, my passengers, and my fellow drivers.
There is no such thing as being too safe when lives hang in the
balance.