In The Driver’s Seat

From time to time, we read the news headlines about car accidents that caused deaths and injuries, we read the reason behind these accidents like drivers using their cell phones while driving or people driving in the opposite direction, and in the next day, we find people repeating the same actions. Why did everyone forget what happened yesterday? This is because many people don’t believe in the consequences of doing risky actions until it happens to them directly.

In the driver’s seat, you see fathers holding their children to teach them how to drive, you see people checking their social media accounts, you see mothers busy looking at the back seat to watch their children, a lot of people don’t even use the seat belt although everybody knows how important it is, but again, no one learns the lesson until it becomes a fact for them.

A recent study declared that drivers education significantly reduces crashes and traffic. This is because education raises the awareness of drivers with how they should act in emergency situations, and the priorities of driving steps as well as stressing the importance of following the rules to be safe. (ref)

In order to reduce the number of deaths related to driving, there are many steps that should be taken, I will mention some of them below,

• Laws that punishes people who break driving rules should be more enforced, and there should be tools to track those people, I suggest using the new technologies to invent cameras that can be installed in the streets to detect the postures of drivers’ bodies to ensure that their both arms are on the driving wheel.

• Governments must pay more attention to the road safety in addition to the speed of medical care provided when accidents occur.

• There must be laws to stop old/unsafe vehicles from being used.

• Regarding exceeding the speed limits, I would suggest spreading ads that simply calculate the time people save when they increase their speed, because when they find out that the time saved is very short, they will appreciate that this short time doesn’t deserve risking their lives.

I’m blessed because neither me nor my family members have experienced car accidents before. In general, the mistake I sometimes do is that if I received a call, I would check my mobile to see who is calling. But I’m training myself to turn the mobile on silent mode while driving and I put it in the back seat. Whatever important calls are, it would never be more important than my life.

I really hope that the driving safety awareness would spread everywhere, and I wish to see that when someone posts a picture on social media bragging about his high speed while driving, he would find people blaming him and highlighting the risk of this action so that this person and everyone else seeing the photo would change their mindsets.

Reference:

https://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2015/08/13/Study:+Driver's+ed+significantly+reduces+teen+crashes,+tickets

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