Simple Steps We Can Take For Safer Driving

Do your part to put an end to distracted driving. Below is EndDD’s checklist of “Simple Steps” you can take to avoid being a distracted driver.

Please read through these steps and decide if you can commit to that step.  If so – check the box and let us know the steps you are taking to End Distracted Driving. We’ll publish your commitments with your name and state.

YES, I Can

1. Drive without texting.
2. Drive without making or receiving calls or texts.
3. Call/Text before I start driving to let parents or friends know when I’ll arrive.
4. When I am alone, I can turn my cell phone off/on vibrate when I start to drive.
5. Pull over to safe location before making/receiving calls/texts.
6. Deputize my passenger to make/receive calls/texts while I am driving.
7. Wait until I have finished driving to eat.
8. Wait until I am finished driving to adjust music—change CD’s, scroll through iPod
or iPhone or similar device.
9. Put makeup on before I start to drive or wait until I am finished to reach for
objects in the back seat.
10. Wait to text/call others until they have finished driving.
11. Ask my driver to drive safer if I am a passenger in their car.
12. Be a driver who cares about the safety of others and is not selfish.

I can do this to save my life, lives of my friends and family, and lives of others.

Simple Steps

Adopt a safe driving policy for you and your family and encourage others to do the same.

"vowing to not use my cell phone while driving, and not do anything while driving a car that can wait (like eating while driving) that takes my attention off of the road. I read your stories or needless loss, and my heart goes out to you. I can change..."
— Christina L.,California