Protected on the road
Originally appeared online in the teen series Your Healings - August 10, 2025.
My High School offered a driver’s education class that included classroom study and actual driving with an instructor. These specially equipped cars had a brake on the passenger side to allow the instructor to brake if necessary.
We lived in an area of mountains and rolling hills and many roads with limited visibility. Our family often traveled a road that went down a mountain. It was very curvy and ran along a cliff on one side and the steep embankment of the mountain on the other. You often couldn’t see more than a few car lengths ahead. It was narrow, had no cross streets, only one lane each way, and had few places to turn off or to get out of either lane.
On one of the driving days, the instructor chose this road for me, and since I knew it well, I was excited to drive it myself.
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