We are heading into a road safety storm.
Conditions are ripe for our next generation of drivers to be the worst.
It’s also too late.
Our preteens [On e-scooters and the like] have no respect for the road.
No helmets, excessive speed, and a flagrant disregard for their safety or the safety of others.
They duck and weave through traffic, bouncing from pavement to road like a video game.
Whipping across roads without even a glance.
We’ve got so many safety programs for kids and teens, but guess what we don’t have?
Parents enforcing their children’s compliance.
We’ve got police too busy doing other jobs and just driving past nonconforming young road users.
Schools can’t do anything.
Hand on heart, nobody could seriously say these teens will make safe motorists.
They’ve no respect for the law, and they’ve been taught through our inaction that corner-cutting isn’t punished.
We used to do things not just because it was right but because the fear of being caught outweighed everything else.
With this new generation of drivers coming through, all of that is gone.
– Michael Torrens
Owner and operator of Gympie and District Driving School
