Tuesday, 21 May 2013

dangerous driving

And it’s like driving. You learned from watching, observing. Dangerous driving is just that, dangerous. But if it’s normal where you come from how do you learn safe driving habits? How do you become a safe driver? Dangerous driving doesn’t take anyone else into consideration. It’s all about the driver, the only one on the road. Take no notice of the others, you know they are there but if they need anything you are not the driver to provide that for them. Other drivers exist and use roads but they need to get out of your way if you are coming, or they may get cut up or worse, run over. Say you were a dangerous driver, not really through any fault of yours, like I said, your instructors were dangerous drivers too. Say you were young and caused an accident that not only hurt other people but hurt those you loved more than anyone else in the world the most. How would it be when you got older and those you loved were still living that hurt. And the instructors couldn’t see that they had played any part in what went wrong, how you turned out to be a dangerous driver. And in some ways you continued to pile on that hurt, continued to drive dangerously. When you got old and realised that some people learned to drive safely from the word go, that their instructors were considerate of other users, and therefore they were considerate too. How would you feel? How would it be when you realised that in order to be happy you would have needed to have been a safe driver from the off? Dangerous driving always results in some form of hurt. But you didn’t get any safety tips or instructions. How could you have known there was another way, one where you could give way, or let someone out of a turning and it would be fine? The sad truth is that if you start off as a dangerous driver the damage is done, you can try to repair it but it makes everything harder, everything is more complicated. You can never imagine what it is like to have learned dangerous driving first if you learned to be safe. Hopefully you can take responsibility for the crash and move forward, learning to be a safer driver in the process. This, unfortunately, will take the rest of your life, and affect your family forever.