Let's Make Driving Safe

Kahlee N. Tew

November 19, 2019

Let’s Make Driving Safe!

I believe that drivers ed is really important because teens who take the class will understand the right and the wrongs out driving and they would be least likely to get into accidents or tickets. Many teens don’t take the drivers ed class because they think it is a waste of time and they think that they are perfectionists when it comes to driving. In the United States, you have to complete in eight-hour class learning about driving and take two driving tests with an instructor in order to get you license if you are under the age of 17. Most teens would skip that step after getting their permits and wait until there 17th birthday to get their license because they don’t have to take a third-party class. In my opinion, I think that a third-party class should be taken by everybody under the age of 21 to reduce the number of teens and that are driving reckless in the streets. That would push teens to take the class because they would not have a choice if they want to drive in high school or college. Me personally, I have been in a car accident and I was the cause of it, but it wasn’t like I was on my phone or anything, I just simply wasn’t looking at the car in front of me I was looking at the car coming towards us. I did have an older cousin that was in a car accident but unfortunately, he passed away due to the impact. He was driving around a curve with his friends in the car and while going around the curve he was doing over 80mph and he lost control and ran into a tree. Another time I was with someone driving irresponsibly was when I was with my cousin, and I was sitting in the back seat and she turned around to look at me and not paying attention to the car in front of her. To become a safer driver, I would think about what may happening if I were to do something wrong while driving. I would also drive the speed limit and watch the drivers around me.