There is never a more important time to learn safe driving habits than when you are first learning how to drive. That being said, in the United States, the vast majority of people who learn how to drive do it when they come of age, which is usually when they are teenagers.
As any person who has already gone through their teenage years knows, being a teenager is sometimes a very stressful and awkward time in a person s life. You are going through puberty and your hormones are raging. This combination alone can often be deadly for some teens who are climbing behind the wheel of a moving vehicle for the very first time. I say this because I remember a tragic story from when I was in high school.
When I was attending high school, I was in my senior year when an announcement was made that brought everything in the school to a grinding halt for the entire day and certainly affected the entire student body for the remainder of the year (and even up until now). My high school was fairly small compared to other ones in the area. It had maybe 450 students at it s peak. It was nearing the end of the school year in March when an announcement was made over the loudspeaker that a boy in the grade below me had died in a car crash the afternoon before after we had all left school. This boy happened to be in my brother s grade and he was a well liked kid.
As it turns out, he had just gotten his driver s license and had permission to drive to and from school in a brand new sport utility vehicle that his parents had gotten him. In his car, in the front passenger seat as a girl who was also in his grade. He was driving her home from school. The story goes that the boy who was driving was speeding in this sport utility vehicle, and as he approached an exit ramp off of the highway just a half mile from our high school, he misinterpreted the speed of the turn and took it too fast, which wound up flipping his vehicle over several times. He wound up dying at the hospital a short while after the accident while the girl wound up walking away with only a few bumps and bruises. It turns out that he wasn t wearing his seatbelt either and had been projected through the windshield of his car. According to friends who were close to the boy, he was showing off because he had his friend in the car. Now he is no longer alive.
One of the first things that they teach you in driver s education is how to be a responsible driver. They strategically show you all of the “horror” videos of people who have gotten into accidents and are permanently disfigured as a result or who are paralyzed due to someone else s inability to maintain their focus while driving. You would think that at least one of these videos would hit home for our young drivers out there. Hopefully, as time goes one, we can all learn how to be a little more careful when we drive and realize that sometimes it is better to be late to where we are going rather than sorry.
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