Brenden Simmons Feature Story

Feature story:


Besim R. age 17 ½ goes to Evergreen Tec school in White Center, He's been driving since he was a freashmen and not legal as he says. He loves to drives to school every day and when he got his car from his dad he was excited like a little kid at christmas time, and I had the chance to interview this young man on his experiences and thoughts of Reckless driving. The first thing I asked Besim was if you ever been the cause of reckless driving? And he told me that yes he has, it was raining and was night time. A man cut him off, and Besim was texting. The man stopped and Besim slid into him even though he hit the brakes. He was lucky enough and only had minor injuries. I also asked him if he’s been a victim and he also said yes to that. Once he was in the car with friends and the driver decides to go to an illegal street race and participate with every one still in the car, they were going really fast and started to swerve around, and there were pedestrians and other vehicles around. Barley missed another vehicle and then the driver decides to go the races and once they arrived people already wanted to race so they went on. After that they were racing for a while, and they were lucky that no one was hurt. But after that they raced again and they crashed into a telephone pole, still lucky that they weren’t killed or hurt that bad. I asked him when it should be appropriate for a teen to be able to get his or her license and he said “I think they should get it as soon as they hit 16 because even though teen are known for un experienced driving, it give to go through drivers ed and give them the concepts on how to drive, and also the rules of the road.” He tells me that he see’s reckless drivers usually around midnight to one in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays because that’s when people go out and drink or party. As we come to the end of our interview I asked Besim if he knew what kills the most teens each year, he said drugs. Drugs are also bad but don’t kill nearly as much teens as reckless driving. I asked him how many teens do you think die each year because of reckless driving he said 1,000 and actually 4,000 teens die each year (in America) from car crashes. I also asked him how many are injured, he said 5,000-10,000 but it’s actually far worse. 300,000 teens are injured in car crash’s each year, that’s 821 teens a day.