Life or Text

Everywhere in the world has driving laws implemented with the intention of keeping the roads safe and those on it safe. Thus, meaning the importance of drivers ed in reducing the number of deaths as a result of driving is ensuring drivers’ education is shared worldwide as accurately as possible. Without the sharing of drivers ed, roads would be similar to war zones; yelling, miscommunication, danger and ultimately death.

Some may say that I am quite unlucky as I have been in four car accidents within my nineteen years of living. Within all these accidents I was never once left in critical condition. Three of these four car accidents were caused by the reckless driving of my rebellious aunt. All four of these accidents were caused by texting and driving. The first being our family car being rear-ended by a distracted driver and the three to follow being due to my aunt’s inability to put her phone away while behind the wheel. Ultimately leading to her totaling her latest car. The most traumatic of the four accidents I can recall would most certainly be when my aunt chose to watch Netflix on a stormy night drive back from Atlanta Georgia. That was the last time I ever got in a car with her again. It was clear she did not value her life or the life of others in her car as she repeatedly put herself and others in grave danger behind the wheel.

Some steps that I could take to make myself and others better drivers is to appeal to the different people within my society and share tips for safe driving through an app I would create. Within this app driving tips and statistics would be shared every night when many would almost certainly see them. A special feature of this app would be a reminder that the phone owner had the privilege of making it home alive while someone somewhere did not due to reckless driving. This I believe would be an effective eye-opener to a vast majority of people.

Aside from the common rule of wearing a seat belt and no texting while driving. There are other steps that could be used to reduce the number of deaths related to driving. For example, enforcing safe driving into the curriculum of students grades six through twelve. Rather than making Drivers Ed mandatory in order to obtain a legal driver’s license. Drivers Ed should be a core course in each grade level. Each year would consist of different topics such as road laws and signs, consequence of texting and driving, seatbelt safety, roadside safety, and stranded education. With each grade given a designated course topic, students will be able to better absorb valuable road knowledge.

In summation, everywhere in the world has driving laws implemented with the intention of keeping roads safe. If everyone stood together to share drivers ed, we could all prevent a life or text situation.