Stop the Crash

Abbigail Castiglione 11/18/19

Scholarship essay

Stop the Crash

Many people everyday get in car accidents world wide. Motor vehicle accidents can occur for many reasons including, inexperience driving, driving while intoxicated, texting, or doing a number of other things.

A large portion of why teens and young adults get into accidents while driving is do to the fact that they are just simply inexperienced drivers. Something that could help with this inexperience with driving would be to send kids to drivers ed. Drivers ed is a place for kids to learn how to drive safely and effectively by someone other than their parents. Kids will be given an instructor which they will drive around with and be taught how to properly drive a car and how to be safe on the roads. This is a good idea because it allows kids to be taught by another person other than their parents. Parents can be frustrating when they are trying to teach you how to drive, which may cause you to night pay as much attention causing unsafe driving later on. This also gives kids more time on the roads to practice their driving which can reduce the number of accidents and accident related deaths.

Steps that can be taken to reduce the number of deaths by car accidents its to require kids to take drivers ed either through their school or an outside company in order to get their license. This just ensures kids are practicing driving ad much as they should be and learning how to do it safely. Additionally, you should require kids to practice in the winter if you like in an area with bad winter conditions. This allows kids to have practice in dangerous weather conditions which can teach them how to respond to situations when driving conditions are bad.

Personally, I have witnessed two accidents before. One I was on my way to a high school gymnastics meet when all the sudden a pick up truck came running through a red light and T-boned another car. I have also watched a large semi truck run straight into a bunch of cars crushing them like sticks. Both of these accidents really scared me because the cars were crushed. Now I am extra careful around trucks and at lights.

To improve my driving I think I need to break early when coming to stop signs and lights. I think I break too late and more often than not I end up needed to push on my brakes harder in order to not crash. I especially need to do this when it starts snowing more so I don't slide on ice, into another car, or so my anti lock brakes don’t go on. If I stop sooner I think that would make other people behind me stop sooner which make us less likely to get into an accident. I also think I should keep father distances away from the cars in front of me so I dont cash, especially during the winter.