Semester 2- PLN2

Today I read an article called Teen traffic deaths down in Colorado by Kieran Nicholson, of the Denver Post. This article talks about how teenagers in Colorado deaths are caused my car crashes, are now down by more then a third. It also said that if young adults would buckle up the amount of teens dying from this incident would be even lower. After reading this article and comparing it to other articles similar to this one, what matters the most is that teenagers driving and or passengers do not wear their seat belts. Col. Mark Trostel, chief of the Colorado State Patrol, said "While the decline in teens killed in traffic crashes is good news, it is still disturbing that so many promising young lives are cut short needlessly because they were not wearing a seat belt." It is a disturbing fact that a simple thing, like wearing a seat belt which protects your life, does not sink into young adults heads. Even after watching the news, reading articles on people dying, hearing someone they knew got in an accident, having classes that teach you the dangers of all of this, does not get through to those who drive or ride in a car with others. When getting your permit and or licenses, as a driver you automatically learn to wear your seat belt and those riding in your vehicle must wear theirs as well. This article mattered a lot to me because as my friends are getting to the point of driving and having older friends drive it is a very scary thought to think of one of those people could easily die because they did not wear their seat belt. This matters to the world around us as well because it is an awful habit to not wear your seat belt at a young age, because I see other older adults not wearing their seat belt and again it is a scary thought to image them dying and the reason would be not wearing a seat belt.