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Showing posts with label driving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label driving. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Texting Ban while driving!

Today the ban was made that no one can text and drive. I like that they passed this because that can really save your life. When you text and drive then you aren't paying attention to the road so if an object of lil kid goes out in front of you and you aren't looking then you mite hit the object or even seriously hurt the little kid. The thing that I don't like is the consequence if you do it and get caught. If you were to get caught you would have to pay 500 dollar and 30 days in jail. In my opinion I think that is a lil much to pay and also 30 days in jail? wow...I think that is a long time. There really is no need to text and drive, there is not text that is important enough to text or have to look at while you are driving some where. I understand talking on the phone because that call could be important and it would be rude to ignore it, but at least if you are talking on the phone you could use blue tooth and on the phone you are at least looking at the road. So sense the ban was made I think the road will be more safer sense more people will be paying attention or at least the ones that are following it.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Be Careful and Drive Safe!

There are many teens that drive to and from school everyday. Even though they may think that they are driving safely, something may happen to them in a blink of an eye. While driving on the road students may think that they know everything about driving and what other people are doing. There are many reasons why teens are in or cause the most accidents but the top ones are drunk driving and driving at night with friends in the car.
How many teens do you think end up driving drunk? Well the stats say that 6.4%. Teens could stop all of the accidents that happen from drunk driving. But do you think that if the teens have been drinking will call their parents to come pick them up? Most likely not because they either don't want to get in trouble by their parents because they were drinking. Or they have either had too much to drink and think they can do anything and everything. If you teen called you and asked you to come pick them up because they have had too much to drink, would you?
Are you a good driver at night when you have friends in your vehicle with you? Well you may think so, but what do your friends think? When it comes to comparing who drives better male or female teen drivers, female drivers are better. In the article I read it says "the male driver death rate is one and a half times higher than the female death rate". Male drivers tend to speed more than drunk driving.