Free Write

Before I got my driver's licence, I never really paid any attention to the driving laws like wearing a seat belt. I thought it was no big deal and my mother used to always have to get onto me about wearing the seat belt. Before I got my licence I had to take a driver's education course and they explained all of the laws and why they are in place. There was a slide show showing pictures of wrecks people had been in and most of them showed the bodies. On almost all of them the leader said that the person could have lived if only they had been wearing a seat belt. Not too long after that, a friend of mine was in a car wreck and was killed. It too could have gone much better for my friend had they been wearing a seat belt. After those two things I always put on a seat belt when I get in the car. Those images and my friend come into my head whenever I get in a car and I take advantage of the fact that I was lucky enough not to have been in an accident during the times I did not see it necessary to wear a seat belt.