Discussion: Driving Safety

When we were in the car my mom was telling me about this group of girls that were in this car and they were going pretty fast and they had a live stream on. The driver was talking to the camera, checking for things in her purse, and she was bragging how fast her car was going. Well, the car got faster and eventually, they lost control of the car…

I’m not driving yet (I am learning to drive) but I know that I’m gonna need to pay attention and not be on my phone on the road because then this stuff happens.

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Heck yeah I’m learning how to drive too and my mom always told me:”This is basically a weapon that I’m giving you. Be careful because use it wrong and you will die.” Yes my mom is very blunt :joy: but I got what she meant and knew that driving is very dangerous and we all need to be safe.

Also at times my dad texts and drives but then tells me to never do that mess and I’m like…okay :face_with_raised_eyebrow::sweat_smile:

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I’ve crashed my car twice (once was a write off) and I was never on my phone.
So yeah… you can cause bad enough accidents when you’re actually paying attention. Definitely don’t use your phone :see_no_evil:
Also- if you can help it, don’t drive tired. Both times I crashed were on Fridays after a long work week :upside_down_face:

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The thought of me driving gives me very bad anxiety.

I can’t push a shopping cart without crashing somehow.

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I’d say I’m okay at driving but what I’m pretty bad at is parking. Especially if it’s in a very small space where I have to park in the middle of two cars. This applies both to parallel parking as well as parking lot spaces.

My relatives have a restaurant in a mall near where we live, and some of the parking spaces are too close together. So, on my mom’s birthday, we were at the restaurant, and afterwards we were going to go to the park. My nephews wanted to ride with me (this was in January when one was 7 and the other was 4)… but since I had parked in the section where the cars are close together, there was this big van behind me, and as I backed up, I bumped into it… nothing happened to the van but I was nervous to the max, especially considering that I had two little kids in the car with me. The guy watching the parking lot made us park and wait while he checked to see if the van behind us was okay, and after a few minutes, my 4 year old nephew said, ‘Let’s just go! That guy wants us to do everythinhg’. So, in conclusion, whenever I go there now, I always park in the section where the cars are NOT that close together.

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Yesterday, an accident with a car and a motorbike happened near my house and the person who was riding the motorbike died.

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I am 23 dont have driveing license because they cost 16000 kr (2.365, dollers) where I live. dont have the money . dont have money for a car either they are expensive too because you actually pay for them twise.

reason a driving license is so expensive is because you have to take a year of driveing school.

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Closed due to inactivity, but remember to drive safely. :blue_heart: