Drivers Safety

Driving in the US is a privilege. Knowing that when you get out on that open road and whether it’ll be your last time is everyone’s constant reminder. Every year 38,000 people are killed by auto accidents, with 4.4 million needing medical attention from serious injuries. Driver education can reduce these deaths by providing its readers and students with safe and proper driving techniques. The importance of driver education is to teach teens how to practice safe driving. They’ll know more than the basics of simply looking left to right before turning and with learning at such a young age it will reduce the number of deaths there are to come. The first thing to help reduce deaths is by first knowing how to drive. There are a lot of teenagers driving that do not have their license which makes this illegal. Just because one may think they know how to drive doesn’t mean that they actually do. I cannot name how many students there are that go to my school and get in trouble because they don’t have a decal to park their car simply because they can’t provide a valid license. At the age of 7 my grandmother was teaching me and my older cousin how to drive. We started with turning the wheel then slowly began to use the pedals. Now 17, our friend told us that her parents never taught her nor her sister how to drive. During our drivers ed course my teacher admitted that that was his first time having to use the emergency break. She is terrible, and now that the DMV is basically giving away license worries me for her and other teenagers. I firsthand experienced my mother swerving off the road just by strolling on Facebook. Then I came to realize that she’s not the only person to do so. According to the National Safety Council, they reported that 1 in 4 car accidents are caused by texting and driving. I find it interesting how my friends and I dislike those that put their life as well as others lives in danger. This generation love our phones too much to the point where we are killing are families and innocent children. I once watched this movie where a teenager was driving and picked up her phone. 5 seconds later she swerved and hit a little boy that was crossing the road. It killed him and the young lady couldn’t seem to forgive herself. Texting may seem easy, but it is easily distracting and very dangerous to those around us.