Once again, the death toll rises at our local high school. Tuesday morning, 3 teens, 2 of them brothers, were killed in a collision with a school bus. This only minutes from our home, and at the time when my kids bus was picking them up--so imagine how frantic I was until I found out that it was not their bus......
Anyway, my point is this. Why do parents let their kids drive to school when a perfectly good school bus is available? It's free--actually as taxpayers, we do pay for it, but...----it's available, it saves your gas money.....
And you do not have to get the phone call telling you to get to the hospital to ID your kids.
The news reports moan that the road is a dangerous one and something should be done. Yes, it should. In the form of drivers watching what the hell they are doing. In the form of slowing down, watching up ahead for situations you may need to deal with defensively. Does anyone teach defensive driving anymore?
I have also heard that seat belts may have helped. Ummmm, DUH! Why would anyone get into a car and not wear one? Yes they can be uncomfortable at times,. but they beat being dead.
As Earl Pitts would say, WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!
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Ranting just won't do it anymore, and that is the only spear we had to fight with. People are stupid. Motorcyclists bemoan the fact they must wear helmets in WV. Even though statistics prove that it is the one best safety device they can use. Only about 80% of drivers now use seat belts in WV. Even though statistics show they are the one best safety device they can use. Statistics also show that transport in a school bus is THE safest surface transport in the USA. Yet parents still want their children to drive to school, or will drive them themselves. There is no accounting for, nor excuse for, ignorance. It abounds.
And as long as people remain stupid, and refuse to use common sense to keep themselves safe, we will continue to have funerals for kids who had yet to begin their lives; we will have schools disrupted by "grief counselors" because no one has taught the remaining kids how to deal with their grief and how to look at things logically. I even had one lady at work tell me that"Well it must have been their time to go." NO! They chose to not wear seat belts, they chose to drive to school on a rainy dark morning, their parents chose to allow them to do so. And they drove and they died, losing control of their vehicle and endangering not only their lives but those of countless others on the bus and on the road.And I am tired of apologizing for my feelings on this matter-----and incidents such as this are the reason I have told my kids--and stepkids they will not drive a vehicle from my home until they turn 18 and are legally responsible for their own actions.
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