My Poems, Satires & Other Lyrical Nonsense - 7. Four Young Lives

It is so sad to think that your short story holds so much truth in it and yet it just simply is not heard by many young people. I think one of the problems is, a passenger of sixteen years is moved from the roll of a passenger into the drivers seat. Driving is a 100 percent activity. You have to give it your full attention. Whether it is alcohol, weed, or even an emotional state, due to a break up, if you can not give driving your full attention then you should not be on the road.  Your story is sad but true. Lack of driving experience, an over correction and a car is thrown out of control and only something like a tree or a rock wall can bring it to rest with deviststing results to the unsecured occupants inside. Newton’s laws of motion do not care how old you are. The seat belts do help more often than not.  Sorry to hear Ireland is having a rash of road deaths. 😢

On 8/25/2018 at 6:07 AM, OzLoGo said:

It is so sad to think that your short story holds so much truth in it and yet it just simply is not heard by many young people. I think one of the problems is, a passenger of sixteen years is moved from the roll of a passenger into the drivers seat. Driving is a 100 percent activity. You have to give it your full attention. Whether it is alcohol, weed, or even an emotional state, due to a break up, if you can not give driving your full attention then you should not be on the road.  Your story is sad but true. Lack of driving experience, an over correction and a car is thrown out of control and only something like a tree or a rock wall can bring it to rest with deviststing results to the unsecured occupants inside. Newton’s laws of motion do not care how old you are. The seat belts do help more often than not.  Sorry to hear Ireland is having a rash of road deaths. 😢

Yes, driving does require a great deal of focus. If you do not have the attentiveness to remain vigilant I don't think you should be on the road. Everyone is sharing the road; the very best you can do is try to take others who are sharing it into consideration. In Ireland, we have many twisty and winding roads. For tourists who come to Ireland, they often note who we seem to drive on their ass or their tailgating in America. It is common here, and since we are a speedy bunch people get going to places without the holdups. If you cause a buildup, you'll be surprised or forced off the road by intimidation. However, one of the downside of hour speediness and windy roads are teenagers who are not long on the road driving at the same speeds experienced drivers are going at. Of course, this leads to more deaths than anything. However, my partner has been driving since he was eleven and he zooms around the countryside. Although he cracks up being stuck at traffic lights in Dublin lol.