Drivers Ed is Important!

Fortunately for me, I have never been in a car accident. That doesn’t mean I haven’t witnessed one. I was about nine years old in the fourth grade. We were coming home from a grocery store that was down the street. I remember I was looking down at my tablet when I heard the deafning screech of a car’s tires. I look at the last minute to see a car T-boning a car that ran a red light, causing the car to spiral out of control. My mother stomped on the brakes which knocked me out of the haze I was in. I see the car that was hit with a completely crushed side. Witnessing this accident produced a fear of driving that I wouldn’t realize until I was the age to start driving.

Witnessing this accident and the realization that I was terrified to be in an accident. Made me pay attention more in drivers ed class. It hadn’t dawned on me until I was put behind the wheel that I could easily cause someone’s death. After this I started to think, if Drivers Ed is a class that is mandatory to driving, why hasn’t anybody gotten the memo to not have any distractions to driving? Was it because they didn’t enforce it because my instructor made sure we knew about the distractions? Realizing this I felt Drivers ed is more important than everybody's making it out to be. It is important that EVERYONE knows how to prevent accidents and know the laws. Especially with car accidents being a leading cause of death in the U.S.

In order to enforce these laws and rules on to drivers, I believe there should be a test every once in a while to make sure that these drivers are abiding by the law and know how to prevent accidents. That way people are more cautious and the accidents would cease. Of course I would be taking these tests to sustain the knowledge and take the pressure off my shoulders of causing peoples death.