Stay Alive, be alert!

Education on driving helps you learn the laws that keep you safe on the road. You will need to know which traffic lights can you pass and when to stop. If it is a red light that means you will have to stop completely; this is for drivers to avoid road traffics and deaths. Many pedestrians and drivers died today because of us not being considerate. People would just drink and drive thinking it’s not a big deal. They think that as long as you are careful and don’t over speed, everything will be fine. It is one of the most dangerous things you can ever do. Is it extremely important to not over cross the laws otherwise deaths will continue to happen.

It is important for teenagers to have education on driving because teenagers are the ones with the least experience. As students we learn to drive at around age sixteen; teenagers will start to get new feelings of anxiety and will do foolish actions such as going over the speed limit to exceed the car. Another thing that teenagers can easily get into is aggressive driving. When aggressive and rage driving happens it can become extremely dangerous to other drivers and pedestrians. Teenagers of age of sixteen or seventeen will definitely have less self control when it comes to fighting and arguing. If another driver is driving by and trying to get on your nerves, there are possibly things that we will do. They can try to exceed the car by speed driving or maybe they can crash the driver with the car because they are getting angry. These actions can happen in not just teens, and can also be adults as well. It can have harm on others including yourself within these actions. Schools should offer programs about safety driving and make awareness about deaths and violated actions.

Road traffic is the cause of one of the world's greatest public health problems.In everyday, every minute, tons of people died as a result of road crashes. One of the things that happens causing road crashes is distracted driving. Many drivers are distracted from their mobile phones such as text messaging, making phone calls, looking at social media, etc. It can result in injury and loss of life. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , 3,166 people were killed by distracted driving in 2017 alone, 8.5 percent of total fatalities for the year. (https://www.fcc.gov) Many lives are gone because of us distracted drivers not paying full attention. One of the common types of distraction can happen while driving is visual distractions. Anything that looks attractive can take a driver's eyes from the road. It can change their visual focus away from driving. Drivers could be looking down at their console to view a text message or looking at the scenery around us. Dialing on a phone or talking on a hand held phone can cause distractions as well. In order to avoid using the phone while driving, one way you can do is to turn on silence. That way you won't hear any text noise. The reason why people look at their phones while driving is because they hear the text sounds. They got distracted whether it's important or not. If there isn't any noise, you won't even bother to touch the phone. If you don't touch the phone, accidents will have less chance to happen.

To reduce the number of deaths and injuries, we need to be more attentive while driving. If you were driving, you should be aware and look around you. You should not just look straight in the road. You also need to be attentive with the left and right side of the road. It is extremely important to be aware of things happening around us; always be considerate and remember to use the yield right of way while driving. It is one of the most important laws to follow, especially for new drivers.

During around last year in spring, my mom was driving home from work at night. She was waiting at the traffic light to turn green and was about to make a turn at the intersection. As she was about to turn, a car crashed and hit my mom out of nowhere. The car registration plate got wrecked and also the left side door broke. My mom was alone in the car. There were no passengers. Unfortunately, the other driver's car has a sick passenger in it. He called the cops and said my mom hit him. My mom was just about to make a right turn on the intersection. Although she was looking at both sides of the intersection, she didn't even see any cars coming by. My mom said she saw him holding a phone while they crashed but he blamed my mom for not being careful. The passenger in the car passed away and blamed my mom. It is her fault. But the truth is that the passenger was already sick that time. It wasn't because of the crashing . The driver tried suing my mom; the Geico company would have to help my mom to take care of this case in court. The case has been going on for almost half a year. I can't believe some people are so irresponsible and put blame on others when it's actually their own fault.

Educating people about safe driving gives us good consequences. If we are drunk driving, speeding, distractions, and text while driving, we could end the lives of many people including ourselves. You need to take the laws and signs seriously. Crashing deaths isn't a joke. It is extremely dangerous to jeopardize other pedestrians and drivers. Although you might not be thoughtful of others to get injured, but how about yourself? Do you want to experience the consequences of having a road crash? Do you want to put yourself in danger? Do not wait until an accident happens to you because you do not know if you are going to make it alive.