Driving Responsibly: The Key to Safer Roads

Driving is a privilege and an opportunity to test yourself to see if you can handle your surrounding. Driving shows if you are ready to be independent and safe. Can you as a safe driver help reduce deaths from bad drivers? Do you know how to drive safe and are you aware of everything that happens when you drive? What steps would you take to be a better and safer driver? All these problems that are faced on the road can be avoided if you and everyone else knows how to drive safely.

To begin with how can you as a safe driver help reduce deaths from other bad drivers is by being well educated on how to drive. Driver educations teaches new and experienced drives important rules of the road and how to make important and sometimes life changing decisions. Learning and memorizing these skills can halp you avoid mistakes that can be made during driving that could lead to serious crashes. Driving rule basics include: wearing seat belts, following speed limits, using turn signals and being aware or the road and signs that could be important. In addition to driver educations an important rule is that to never be on your phone or not looking at the road while driving. These hinder your ability to be aware of what is going on the road. Just a few seconds on your phone or changing the music station could lead to accidents. One last take away is that your body also has to be capable to drive. Drivers must learn that driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs can hinder your ability to drive safely for yourself and others. Also avoid driving drowsy or tired if you must drive tired drive slowly to avoid accidents. If a driver can understand all these risks and avoid them then we can reduce deadly accidents.

Although I have never been in a serious accident. I have seen people driving irresponsibly and it shows in the careless decisions they make on the road. I have seen people race on the road at night and later then end up crashing because they couldn't react in time and get caught in an accident. I’ve seen people speed through neighborhoods and change lanes without turn signals. These small actions that they do seem like they dont do much but it can be life threatening because if we can't tell where the person is gonna go they could end up causing an accident or ending up hurting pedestrians. It's a reminder to show that just because you know what your going to do that other don’t and that is a very irresponsible mind set to have while driving. When I see people drive like that it makes me understand that these small actions can cause big incidents. So this is why its so important to get into a habit of driving safely and aware when behind the wheel cause you can cause big problems in so little time.

There are several steps that can make a road safer place. A couple things that can be done is by always wearing your seatbelt and making sure everyone in your car has it on. Also a big one would be to not touch your phone and try to use hands free so you can keep your eyes on the road. Another thing is to follow traffic signs and speed limits and to not tailgate others to make sure if you get hit you don’t hit others in front of you. If you ever feel unable to drive have someone else drive or order a ride share to make sure you don't cause an unnecessary accident because you were incapable to drive. Take all these steps and encourage your friends and family to follow them and so they also tell there friends and family to make the road a safer place and avoid car related deaths. You can set the example and others will follow and you making that safe decision could save lives and reduce risks on the road.

In a nutshell, Driver education is the best way to reduce number of reckless drivers and car related deaths because it teaches the drivers how to safely manuver the road. Safe driving habits such as wearing seatbelts, avoiding phone usage and other distractions, driving sober and following road laws. These habits can all help reduce accidents and keep the driver focused on the road. As I continue to learn to drive I can see the difference between reckless drivers and drivers who follow safe driving steps to keep everyone safe on the road. It helps me learn safe choices and it makes me want to encourage others to drive safely and be responsible on the road. If everyone can follow these steps the road will be a much safer space for everyone.