This week is National Drive Safely to Work Week. The purpose of this observance is to promote awareness of the rules of the road in an attempt to make our nation’s roads safer for all motorists. A variety of different vehicles must co-exist with each other on the roads, and drivers face a growing number of distractions with the many hand-held technology devices on the market today. As a result, a staggering 115 people die every day in motor vehicle accidents. The creators of National Drive Safely to Work Week hope to cut this figure substantially through their efforts.
I hope I’m not the only person who has a problem with such a silly observance. In my mind, when I see an event entitled National Drive Safely to Work Week, it implies to me that the actions of drivers who are a bit more relaxed and negligent in their pursuit of driver safety during the other 51 weeks of the year will be condoned. To me, that is not acceptable.
The way I see it, every day should be Drive Safely to Work Day. If we touted the importance of safe driving throughout the year rather than during one week in October, we may actually go a lot farther towards reducing the number of car accidents occurring on a daily basis. I am not trying to belittle the importance of driver safety by blasting this observance. Rather, I am trying to make the statement that the observance belittles the importance of driver safety. It is time that all drivers take this responsibility more seriously every day of their lives.
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