Experiencing
Beyond The Lesson
Driving
education is a crucial piece of education that is taught among not
just young drivers, but the drivers of any age. Educating those about
safety procedures and ways to protect ourselves and others in mobile
vehicles can not only affect your life as a driver, but can save
another person's possible spouse, child, or parent. Finding what
causes fatal driving accidents is only the first step to solving the
issue. Just because civilians know about a concern, until they
experience it or witness it, they don’t see the reason to take
action. Therefore, exposing new drivers and ticketed drivers to those
scenarios can create a sense of awareness about the issue before it
happens to them. At the school in which I attend, there have been
multiple fatal accidents that affected the entire student body. It
seems as if someone new is getting in a car accident every week.
However, we have experienced traumatic loss at our school due to
motor vehicles. A student and his friends were racing their cars late
one night and only three out of the four survived, one of those boys
being a current senior at the time. Then not to long after, another
current senior felt she was in danger inside her boyfriends car, so
she jumped out and was rolled over on Highway 138. These losses
encouraged our school to bring awarness to student driving and how
cars aren’t toys, they are murder weapons if used incorrectly. As a
community, we have slowly grown out of our habits such as texting and
speeding. However, I wish we could have come to this conclusion
without having to experience the loss of our classmates. Therefore, i
feel as if driver safety needs to be taught more frequently in the
classroom. It is mentioned briefly in the health class you take as a
freshman, but that information can easily be forgotten by the time
your a junior with your own car. Overall, driver safety education
needs to be taught at a more appropriate age and have students go
through virtual scenarios to truly grasp the dangers of driving.