Safety lessons

   It seems like every year, someone is coming up with a new way to tell young people how to be better, safer drivers.

   The latest example was far from planned. The parents of a woman who died in a crash on Easter morning agreed to have the car placed on the lawn at Eden High School.

   Maybe it will have an impact. But as I wrote in my column today, the message always manages to escape some kids at this time of the year, when we hear and read stories about fatal crashes.

   Students take driver education. They learn from preschool about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. They are constantly told to be careful.

   Is there anything else we can we do to prevent more tragedies? Is the answer to simply raise the driving age?

   --- Bruce Andriatch

Read Bruce's column.

Comments

[Sean]

I hope this doesn't sound smug, but it's the same old, same old since driving began - Do Not Take Your Eyes off the road.

[BobbyCat]

Do you really want to slow-down teen drivers? Back in the day, high schools screened a gruesome movie called "Death on the Highways" (or some such title) that showed graphic carnage of wrecked cars and bodies.Some students ran out of the assembly, some threw up, many were in tears. It was shock treatment of the reality of bad driving and it worked.
We all slowed down.

But you can't stop all stupid behavior and eventually, some classmates would inevitably crash and die in a wreck.

Political correctness prevents such movies today. School administrators and their attorneys would rather risk their students's lives than screen a movie showing graphic highway carnage. They wouldn't want to take a chance on offending anyone - little Johnny , little Sally or their angst-ridden parents.

We've living in the age of stupidity and gutlessness and its not just the teens who are guilty.