Narrative Essay On Drunk Driving

I would consider myself a generally good driver. I’ve never gotten any kind of ticket, I always wear my seatbelt and I don’t drive recklessly. That’s why my parents trusted me to get my own car. After selling my jeep, I bought a 1998 Acura Integra. I got it for a sweet deal and it had barely anything wrong with it. When you first buy your car, you think of all the cool things about it or what you plan to do with it. Never do you think that you’re going to lose that car, let alone almost losing someone you love. Well, that’s what happened to me. On the day of my senior prom, my brother and I got in a terrible accident, totaling the car and sending us both to the hospital in helicopters. The day was May 16th, 2015. This was the night of our high school’s prom. I had everything you needed for prom including the tux, shoes, corsage, a date, a car and some spending money. The only thing I was missing were the button covers for my tux. I called up Men’s Warehouse and asked them what I should do and they told me that I could drive up to their store and pick up some button covers. Well since my brother needed to be …show more content…
He’s been real strong through the whole thing. Just last week he was cleared to walk without the crutches and it’s amazing. I feel so bad for what had happened to him and he and I both know that I would never purposely do anything to hurt him like that. This was the worst moment of my life. And I’ve never really opened up about it until now and let me tell you, it doesn’t feel to great having all these emotions flowing again. If there was one thing I could tell teen drivers or even just drivers in general, it would be that you must look more than twice when driving. Twice is not enough. Twice is what made this story. Three, four, five times even, that’s how many times you need to look. You don’t want to put your family through what I put mine