Inexperience Kills
May 30th 2008 02:04
By Andrew Marasa
You’re inexperienced! You’re drunk! You’re speeding! This message is embedded in our minds; it is drilled in over and over again. You all know the road rules- but old people still seem to think you’re drinking and driving. If you speed and if you haven’t realised that you’re inexperienced behind the wheel, then listen to this. This year 29 17-25 year olds have died on our roads. All of them suffered a traumatic death, far from the warm painless death we all envision in our minds. It is a deadly shame some of us exhibit the attitude that we are invincible, 10 feet tall and bulletproof.
Road death is nothing like the movies depict it. No one could be prepared for the absolute horror of a crash scene. Hollywood’s idea of a road accident is just blood and a few broken bones. The reality is there’s blood, there’s urine and there’s faeces. Your body is broken and your dying scream, if you have a moment to realise what has confronted you, is merely a wheeze and a whimper. When two cars crumble under the pounds of force being pushed on them, they snap and bend. As you head strikes the steering wheel, pain overwhelms the senses. Your body is then thrown around like a rag doll. Before you know it, the crumbling car crushes you. Caught in an iron grip and pierced by hard steel teeth the car consumes you. When it ultimately comes to a rest, if you survive the crash, you scream and scream but often no one answers your call. No one is out there. You are distain to die alone, cold and shivering, in the unescapable hard cold metal grip of a monster. Youth of Warrnambool, let me tell you now - road death isn’t pretty!
Before you speed, before you drink, before you drive! Think. Think about all your loved ones, all your mates and all your teachers. A split second of immaturity, and a moment of stupidity on your behalf, could become a life sentence for all those people. If you were to do something stupid behind the wheel of a car, it isn’t you who is left to carry the burden. If you’re in the delusional state of mind, thinking, “It will never happen to me,” look at almost every single young adult and teenage death on the road; these people never thought it would happen to them! Learn for them! A car crash is too often an untimely coffin for so many of our most promising peers.
Please be rational behind the wheel. We all must remember that cars are no longer toys. Only a few years ago they were 10cm long, and we made the engine sound. Now they are high-powered machines that give you an adrenalin rush that would rival some roller coasters.
Please spare me that gaze to the front page of a newspaper, which the image of your crumbled car with the headline reading, ‘Another Young Person Cut Down In Their Prime’. Spare me the rumours spread about what happen before you died. And spare me the sombre mood, which arises when your death is discussed. I believe it’s about time the youth road toll was cut down to the average level. All of you must recognize that speed and alcohol are the worst of the worst when it comes to road killers. Putting yourself in the path of a serial killer for your kicks makes absolutely no sense to me. So I ask all of you again with the greatest urgency, you’re inexperienced. So be extra careful! You’re drunk. So don’t drive! You’re speeding. Slow down.
You’re inexperienced! You’re drunk! You’re speeding! This message is embedded in our minds; it is drilled in over and over again. You all know the road rules- but old people still seem to think you’re drinking and driving. If you speed and if you haven’t realised that you’re inexperienced behind the wheel, then listen to this. This year 29 17-25 year olds have died on our roads. All of them suffered a traumatic death, far from the warm painless death we all envision in our minds. It is a deadly shame some of us exhibit the attitude that we are invincible, 10 feet tall and bulletproof.
Road death is nothing like the movies depict it. No one could be prepared for the absolute horror of a crash scene. Hollywood’s idea of a road accident is just blood and a few broken bones. The reality is there’s blood, there’s urine and there’s faeces. Your body is broken and your dying scream, if you have a moment to realise what has confronted you, is merely a wheeze and a whimper. When two cars crumble under the pounds of force being pushed on them, they snap and bend. As you head strikes the steering wheel, pain overwhelms the senses. Your body is then thrown around like a rag doll. Before you know it, the crumbling car crushes you. Caught in an iron grip and pierced by hard steel teeth the car consumes you. When it ultimately comes to a rest, if you survive the crash, you scream and scream but often no one answers your call. No one is out there. You are distain to die alone, cold and shivering, in the unescapable hard cold metal grip of a monster. Youth of Warrnambool, let me tell you now - road death isn’t pretty!
Before you speed, before you drink, before you drive! Think. Think about all your loved ones, all your mates and all your teachers. A split second of immaturity, and a moment of stupidity on your behalf, could become a life sentence for all those people. If you were to do something stupid behind the wheel of a car, it isn’t you who is left to carry the burden. If you’re in the delusional state of mind, thinking, “It will never happen to me,” look at almost every single young adult and teenage death on the road; these people never thought it would happen to them! Learn for them! A car crash is too often an untimely coffin for so many of our most promising peers.
Please be rational behind the wheel. We all must remember that cars are no longer toys. Only a few years ago they were 10cm long, and we made the engine sound. Now they are high-powered machines that give you an adrenalin rush that would rival some roller coasters.
Please spare me that gaze to the front page of a newspaper, which the image of your crumbled car with the headline reading, ‘Another Young Person Cut Down In Their Prime’. Spare me the rumours spread about what happen before you died. And spare me the sombre mood, which arises when your death is discussed. I believe it’s about time the youth road toll was cut down to the average level. All of you must recognize that speed and alcohol are the worst of the worst when it comes to road killers. Putting yourself in the path of a serial killer for your kicks makes absolutely no sense to me. So I ask all of you again with the greatest urgency, you’re inexperienced. So be extra careful! You’re drunk. So don’t drive! You’re speeding. Slow down.
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