Name: Hailey Gibbons
From: Sacramento, California
Votes: 0
Receiving
your driver’s licence is one of the biggest milestones in your life,
but it is also one of the most dangerous ones. Obtaining your license
considers you to be one step closer to becoming an adult, but with
being an adult also comes with responsibility. Responsibility is huge
when it comes to driving from looking in your mirrors to making a
lane change. Though you have received your drivers licence does not
make you the best driver in the world. Other people have been driving
many more years than you and have experience you have not acquired
yet. Driving can be fun, yet dangerous and is one of the major causes
of deaths in America. People have lost their lives due to the lack
from inexperienced drivers and it is shameful that over 34,000 people
have died due to the lack of responsibility. Distractions are
everywhere to your music blaring out loud to even your phone lighting
up from getting a notification. To prevent these accidents as much as
we can, I believe we should take further actions towards getting
extra amounts of free, reduced driving lessons for the younger
generations. Not only do teenagers need to quit being distracted
adults should also be required to review the laws every now and then.
Most adults will reside against this decision, but the older drivers
are the more experienced they think they are because they have “owned
the roads” for years. They believe they are experts because they
have had their licenses for so long now, they believe they have a
leading role in the fast and furious. Considering adults they need to
be aware of their surroundings when they make aggressive turns
without using their blinkers, or even braking at the last minute.
Driving is for everyone and not allowing everyone to follow the rules
of the roads is unfair because we all have to learn how to drive
somehow. Although maintaining restrictions may be tough, the long
term costs will be worth it in the end. All lives matter everyone has
someone that they would miss if something were to happen to someone.
More time learning for everyone would not hurt a single soul,
especially for the younger generation it would only enhance driving
abilities while reducing the death rate. In experience, I happened to
be in a car accident before it was when I was about 3 my grandma and
I were driving home on the freeway when a trucker driving a semi
truck was talking on his phone while driving recklessly. My grandma
looking behind saw him coming up pretty fast in her rear view mirror
and tried to get away from him, but he followed her and clipped her
from behind. This spent us spinning and eventually crashing us into a
cement wall. Although there were only minor injuries the consequences
were major. Our truck was totaled my grandma sustained a back injury
and my car seat had to be replaced.
