Name: Joshua Helguera
From: Los Angeles, California
Votes: 0
What ways are truly
available to reduce driving-related accidents? A couple of years ago,
a horrible event happened… my friend was in a car accident and they
were barely able to escape alive. Sharing this story did not only
bring tears to their eyes but as well. I didn’t know how to react.
How is it that this person who was always the happiest in the room,
this person with a smile on their face someone who had to go through
this travesty? Why is it that their life will change forever even if
it was not their fault for the event which transpired on that day?
In the time since,
I have talked to them less, but even today this story is ever-present
in my psyche and it hurts me to know that this person went through
this. Why must they of all people go through this? This leads me to
believe there is only one true plausible option to reduce car-related
accidents; We need to better law enforcement and create better
precautions in the neighborhoods which need it most. We are
underprovided and when we do have law enforcement they ostracize us
and label us as criminals rather than focusing on the people causing
the true issues such as the people who are drunk, buzzed, or just
overall unlawful.
Every night just
before I sleep I hear the engines roaring and lights flickering… A
race starts. People race around my house every day, but there is no
one stopping them. We need better enforcement stopping them. We
mustn’t look at someone’s ethnicity but rather at the actions
someone has committed. At night many roam the streets and to know
that it’s not safe for them is nothing but appalling. We are
families here in the neighborhood and for us to live with the
ever-lurking danger of drivers in the night is maddening. Why must we
the civilians fall when it is those sworn to protect us who don’t
do enough.
We need to do
better. There is not enough action taking place within our
neighborhoods. I mean for goodness sake, we don’t even have a
neighborhood council. People feel like they can do anything because
there is no one to stop them, and the rest can do nothing because
those who have abused the power deteriorate any power the normal
civilians have. We need people to help out because if they don’t we
will always live in fear of walking around in our neighborhood.
In conclusion, when
we as citizens don’t even feel comfortable crossing the street
without looking both ways we know that there is a true problem in
this society. We need to improve and the only way to do this is by
getting better enforcement and technology in the streets that need
it. We need to better how we focus on communities because when we
stop to focus on more elementary matters rather than on those of
importance nothing will be accomplished.
