The most effective way to teach a teenager might just be through other teenagers, at least that’s what the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Mazda Motorsports, the Ad Council and the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) believe. In honor of Global Youth Traffic Safety Month, the aforementioned organizations held a [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
Law enforcement has their own way of honoring Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Coming this April, the five-year anniversary of the law that prohibits motorist from using their phone while driving, California policemen will be increasing the amount of tickets they issue. Calling it a “blitz of California freeways”, this [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
The likelihood of a car crash increases drastically with the occurrence of distracted driving. There are three main types of distracted driving activities that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving; visual, manual and cognitive. Distracted driving occurs any time a driver takes their eyes off the [...]
Kiernan Hopkins
Randall L. Stephenson, chairman and chief executive of AT&T, spoke to hundreds of representatives, executives and investors at a conference Wednesday in San Francisco. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the state of the telecom business, but Stephenson instead began his speech with a request to raise awareness about distracted [...]
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Monett High School, in Missouri showed the dangers of distracted driving through a docudrama played out in real life in front of them. A program entitles “Dangers of Distraction” was presented by Merry and Ron Dye in the auditorium of the school. The students then went outside to a parking lot where a simulated […]
Kiernan Hopkins
The 4th Annual Crash Course Teen Driving Summit took place today at the Pelhem Civic Center in Alabama. On a national average, Alabama ranks high for teen driving fatalities and injuries. The event held today helped to simulate the dangers of distracted driving. Some of the tests given to the teens included: wearing [...]
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Seven California students learned first-hand the dangers of distracted driving. In the first time event put together by St. Joseph Health of Sonoma County and other sponsors, students from all around Sonoma were invited to participate in distracted driving experiements. The tests were simple time trail courses and basic lane changing [...]
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