In reading Berger (2011) for this week, I could not help but be reminded of a tragic experience I had in high school related to driving. My boyfriend at the time liked to drive fast. He had access to his mom's BMW, which was substantially faster than the old car that I drove.
One night, we were at a party and my boyfriend took home a good friend of ours. Who knows if he was driving fast, but it was kind of assumed that he was.....
It was an icy night and there was a bridge that he had to cross. The car slid and ended up sliding and was hit by a truck. Our friend was air lifted and in a coma for 2 weeks. He was later withdrawn from life support and died. We were 16 years old.
In the months to come I saw first hand how this affected my boyfriend, close friends, our friend that passed away's family, the community, the school, and so on.
This weeks reading made me think about how young we are when we get our license. Our frontal lobe of our brain is not even fully developed, which affects our ability to reason and make sound judgements. It makes me question the age that we get our license. Should we really be driving at age 16? Or allowed to drive friends and siblings around? If not, when is a good age to start?
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