Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Learning lessons
When you’re only just starting out at something, whatever it is, there’s no point pretending that you know it all. Even if others don’t find you out, you yourself will.
This maxim applies more to being a young driver than it does doing most things. After all, driving can be a matter of life and death, so it’s always worth admitting what you don’t know and moving on from there.
With this in mind it’s good advice to learn from the tragic example of 21-year-old young woman driver from the South of England who lost her life in a recent accident.
Only three-months after passing her test, the girl was approaching a roundabout in her Ford Ka car, when, apparently following the instructions of her satnav, she took the first exit.
Little did she know that it was actually a slip road and that she was travelling in the wrong direction. As a result, she collided head-on with an oncoming BMW.
The girl’s mother has wise words of warning for any young driver, “Satnavs are a help to youngsters on the road who don’t know where they are going but young drivers have so much to think about.
“If they are following the satnav they can’t always be aware of the road.
“If the satnav tells you to get off there you just think it’s telling you the right thing. She believed she was doing the right thing and didn’t question it.”
Furthermore, she thinks that satnavs “should be included in some way in driving lessons... maybe it would stop a tragedy like this happening again”. An interesting idea, and one that is certainly worth of consideration.
What do you think?
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Labels: car, Ford Ka, young driver
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posted by Fuse @ 1:17 AM 
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