KIDS, PLEASE LISTEN!!!!!

....Hey, ya'll are the love of our lives. When you get behind the wheel.....BE CAREFUL!
When you're driving, its not the time to text, talk on the phone, fiddle with your ipod, etc. Driving is for gettin from one place to another in a safe fashion.
I know, I know, you think you can handle any situation, while you drive with one hand on the wheel and one arm hanging out the window.
All of you know that if you put your hand on the burning eye of a stove it will DOG your butt. So, obviously that makes sense. Driving a car can kill you.
In Johnston Co. 6 kids, 19 and younger died in crashes in 2006. 14 died in 2007. 5 have died so far in 2008!!!
WOW! thats horrible!
Don't be a stat kids.
Respect the priveledge of driving and respect your responsibility to yourself and others on the road. PLEASE!
Love ya, Fishdaddy.

 

if only

they would listen. I have a story of my own I would like to add. Driving home from work I saw dirt still in the air, so looked back to see what had caused it. Saw a white car setting next to a tree. So I turned around to find a young man in trouble. The car was in a pine thicket, with liquids leaking from the car and smoke started coming from underneath the car then fire, as we pulled the young man from the car fire was coming up from the floorboard of the car. All this happen in a matter of minutes. The young man spent 3 or 4 weeks in CMS. Luckly he is playing football this season. He is junior, didn't have his licenses very long, and I am sure he thought he could handle anything too. PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY.

 

I feel that driver training for the most part is inadequate. There needs to be facilities where you can create some of the hazards they will face when driving. There needs to be a place where you can run the car off the pavement onto the shoulder and let them hear the racket of the car hitting the gravel or low shouder, etc. They need to feel the jerk the car gives when you over correct so you won't end up crossing the center line. They need to experience meeting cars with bright lights. Maybe in a curve, or on a narrow road. Lots of thing like that. Many of those type experiences you don't encounter in normal driving courses.

There are three things that really stand out in my mind when it comes to learning to drive. One is the one I mentioned above about running off the pavement.

Two is if you are stopped at a red light when it changes to green, treat it like a stop sign--look both ways before you go. That one little thing has saved me at least 3 times. There are cars that run through a red light right at the last second. If you look both ways before you go you will save yourself and/or your passengers at some point from a bad wreck.

The third thing is this. For new drivers, the first year, absolutely no passengers (the only exception would be Mom or Dad or another responsible adult). That is assuming they do a lot of driving the first year. Don't be distracted by thinking that the kid riding with them is responsible and mature and therefore not a risk. It doesn't work that way. When younger drivers and friends are riding together driving is not the highest priority that it should be. You'll be a party pooper and not cool for not allowing passengers but your child and the passenger will be safer. Parents of passengers should not allow their children to ride with a driver with less than a year's experience, either. Most cases I'm aware of the passengers suffer the most.

It's not that the kids are bad; it's simply a matter of experience. That one year of driving solo will make for a more mature and skilled driver. That one year is not too much to ask and it could have a major positive impact!

Anyone who has been affected by the tragedy of a bad accident knows how bad it hurts. And it hurts much more than one little year of driving by yourself.

As the other posters said: PLEASE!!

 

GREAT POST !!!

 

Take Heed!!

Yes, great post. No such thing as reminding them too much about the dangers involved in driving. My daughter knows all too well how final the mistakes can sometimes be. She lost 2 of her very best friends last year in separate incidents only a month apart from one another. Young 16 yr. old girl (our preachers daughter who was instrumental in leading my daugher to the Lord) running a little late for school, so rolls through stop sign to be t-boned by a jeep only doing 45mph. A month later going home after baseball practice and turning left at a stop sign, we lost a boy and his mom that were like family. A teenager coming directly across from them never slowed down for stop sign, never hit brakes and was on a CELL PHONE. We all had our mishaps along the way and were fortunate enough to call them learning experiences, but sometimes you get no second chance. Please be CAREFUL out there!!!!!

 

Yes, there is NOT enough experience ....

for the younger drivers to face before being allowed to drive in society freely.

As above, I think drivers education should somehow allow the young drivers to face bright lights, driving in the rain AT NIGHT.

Also, finding a facitlity or stretch of road ( I don't have the slightet idea where it could be though) to allow them to purposly run off the road going straight, and on a curve and feel what it is like and coming back on the road.

My daughter and myself attended a clinic put on by "Driver's Edge" here in Greensboro a year or so back. It was sponsered by Rumbley and Associates, and various other prominient figures in the area. Driver's Edge also has a website and will be traveling across the US or at least that is what they informed of when we attended the clinic.

BTW, I think the clinic was free also, just show up and they do not use your car but theirs whom they obtain through nearby shops such as Midas If I'm not mistaken.

Reelturner

 

You Know ---

I think sometime at the end of this year it will be against the law for any operator of a motor vehicle to talk on a cell phone while driving...so it want only be teenagers that will be put in safe mode !!!

 

Good Message

Amen brother Ben.

 

I was just at a funeral home tonight visiting two sisters, one 15 and one 17, who were killed in an accident over the weekend.

In my heart I know that if they had been involved in softball and had the kind of parents our softball players have they would be alive today.

It is truly a blessing to have parents that put their kids at the top of their list of priorities. It doesn't mean they're totally protected but it definitely increases their chances.

All of you who love these kids deserve a heartfelt thank you for everything you do!