A Driving Force in 2017

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It’s always a rush to get out of the parking lot after school to beat the traffic. Most people have to wait in the big long line up the hill before they can leave the parking lot and head home after a long day of getting edgumacated.

For a lot of people, the day you turn 16 is one of the biggest days of your life. You wake up in the morning excited to make the trip over to the Department of Licensing to grab your driver’s license. You can taste the freedom as you picture yourself jumping into your car and driving off for your first solo drive on the road.

But there is more to driving than those fun times alone or with friends on the open road. There is a whole lot of freedom that comes with driving and with that freedom comes the responsibility to make smart decisions when you’re in a two ton machine that can end a life in a split second.

“There are approximately 322 students that drive to CK every day, that’s at least 322 people inside of a moving machine with the capability to significantly harm others, themselves, and whoever might be with them,” said ASB Bookkeeper Lori Cenicola.

“Before smart phones were a thing, there was a higher percentage of accidents caused by males because of their tendency to drive recklessly. Now the percentages are equal because females are more inclined to get distracted by their smartphones. 75% of teen fatalities happen within the first year of them having their driver’s license, and happen no more than five miles from home,” said former Kitsap County Sheriff’s Deputy and 911 driving school instructor Jim Rye.