Each year several thousand people are killed on the road in Great Britain. Every year between one and two hundred thousand people are injured, or killed in road accidents.

If you are in England and if you listen to the eight o’clock news from BBC, you will often hear news of road accidents. You may hear something like this: “On last Monday evening, at about twenty minutes to ten, a cyclist was knocked down by a truck at crossing of Oak Road and High Street in Croydon. The cyclist had died from his injuries. Anyone who saw the accident please communicate with New Scotland Yard, telephone number Whitehall one, two, one, two.”

Accidents are often caused by carelessness. If everybody obeys the rules, the roads will be much safer. How can we make the road safer?

In Great Britain traffic keeps on to the left. Motor-cars, trucks, buses and cyclists must all keep to the left side of the road. In most other countries traffic keeps to the right.

Before crossing the road, stop and look both ways. Look right, look left, look right again. Then, if you are sure that the road is clear, and there is nothing coming, it is safe to cross the road. If you see small children, or very old people, or blind people waiting to cross the road, it is kind to help them to cross the road in safety.

We must teach young children to cross the road safely and set them a good example so that there will be fewer and fewer accidents and our life will be safer.

In October 2017, Lang Yongchun, a Chinese host, was caught in a car accident. When the police asked him to take a breath alcohol test (酒精呼气测试) , the result showed that he had drunk too much wine. Because of that, he was put in. prison (监狱) and couldn’t be allowed’ to drive cars in China for three months.

Nowadays, cars are very important in people’s life. More and more cars are going into Chinese families.

However, lots of car accidents happen and many people are hurt or killed every year. According to a police survey, ①there are a lot of drivers driving after drinking. And the amount of drunken driving is still large.

After drinking, a driver can’t control himself or his car. In some cases (案例) , some drivers even drove into rivers or houses after they drank.

As it is so dangerous, there is no excuse for drunken driving. Remember the following three rules when driving.

Never drive after drinking.

Never let anyone drive after drinking.

②Never give alcohol to anyone who would drive later.

If all of us can keep these rules in mind, there will be fewer car accidents, and fewer people will be heart- broken For the safety of ourselves and for the happiness of our families, we must remember no driving after drinking!

Cars have become more and more important now. We are happy that they have greatly improved (提高) our life. But unluckily, cars have also brought many problems, such as traffic accidents.

Traffic safety is everybody’s business, so we need to follow the rules. For example, we must walk on the sidewalk. When we cross the road, stop and look right and left, then go across fast. Don’t play football on the road. And we can tell our parents not to drink before they drive, not to run through red lights, and not to talk and laugh while driving.

On one hand, when pedestrians (行人) want to be on time, they often fail to look at the cars crossing on the road. This will easily bring traffic accidents. On the other hand, the drivers also want to be on time and then ignore (忽视) the traffic rules, which is also easy to have traffic accidents. This example shows that the traffic accidents often happen because of carelessness.

Whether we are driving a car or walking on the road, we should be careful. Life is more important than Mount Tai. We know cars are important in our life, but when everybody is careful on the road, we will be really safe.