Control Your Life

Before I even learned to drive correctly, I learned how to crash. I learned of the death and destruction that can be caused by unsafe and selfish driving. As I grew older, however, I learned that these violent images are depicting real-life tragedies. Many of these tragedies are due to driver ignorance. Lives are being lost due to the lack of drivers ed, if drivers ed were to be increased or viewed important, the number of lives lost would decrease drastically.

With drivers ed being key to the saving of lives, we have to have steps or rules. In my life, I have been in various car accidents caused by distractions and/or reckless driving. Two of those times have been me waking up to violent shaking and thrusting worrying about the outcome of the situation. Thus said, one of the many steps that can be used to reduce driving-related deaths is to promote defensive driving. If the driver was more defensive and focused on safety, the likelihood of there being an accident would dramatically decrease. Another major step that goes along with this is not using your phone or having it on Bluetooth mode. In the majority of the accidents I have been in, a phone was involved by one side of the accident and I had to live to pay the consequences, others may not have been so lucky. Safety and knowledge training is the beginning of a new and hopeful future in driving.

Due to the number of accidents I have been involved in, it has been seared into my brain to be a safe driver. After surviving various accidents that could have been worse, I have been able to analyze and correct myself. I always drive safe speeds at the right time, I never text and drive, and I always check before making a move. Those skills and near PTSD from prior incidents have helped me to become an accident-free driver. Why would I continue the cycle of reckless driving in the world when I could blaze a new path of safe driving.

These traumatizing experiences of waking up to a tornado of spinning wheels and crumbling hoods have made me realize the need for a positive role model in driving. A role model that will lay the steps of not being distracted, not speeding, and defensive driving for the youth to follow and change the statistics that current drivers have created. By doing this, I am promoting drivers ed which saves lives that could be presidents, doctors, directors, etc. By setting this example, I help myself and others become better and will hopefully lead the driving world into a place where everyone knows right from wrong and can live by it. Since I and many others have already witnessed horrible accidents and bad driving, why should it continue? By being safe, I promote safety and awareness that will help to save many of those lives which otherwise would have been lost.