That’s how some teens in Tennessee expressed their anger about other teens who drive distracted. They worry about their friends but they also are angry that they would take chances while driving-not only for themselves and their passengers but everyone else on the road. I spent two days in Tennessee speaking at 4 different
Two Different High Schools More Than 100 Miles Apart, But the Same Commitment to Drive Safer I had a great day last week working with Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) to raise awareness of the dangers of distracted driving. I started in center-city Philadelphia at West Catholic Preparatory High School and finished at
It was gratifying to again participate in the most recent death notification training for law enforcement in suburban Philadelphia where police officers learned about the needs of family members, the best practices for proper death notification and how to care for themselves, since this can be one of the most stressful parts of law enforcement’s job…. I made it clear that it was essential that police officers be truthful, even if the truth was likely to cause family members pain [….]
Everyone knows the dangers of texting while driving. An average text consumes about five seconds of a driver’s attention and at 55 mph, a driver can travel the length of a football field without even looking at the road. But there is less attention paid to the phenomenon of #VloggingWhileDriving which is made ‘easy’ with smartphone applications, like SnapChat. This ‘video blogging’ while driving craze is anything but new. It has been around almost as long as YouTube itself. A simple Google search will show more than 1 million hits of drivers vlogging [….]
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety released the results from its most recent distracted driving study and the results are troubling. Quantifying the extent of the distracted driving problem has been difficult. There is no blood test for distracted driving and many folks just don’t admit they were distracted at the time of a crash.
The Acadia Parish community has been working hard to carry the distracted, drunk and drugged driving awareness issue to teens in high schools in Louisiana through their “Choices” program. This year’s annual 3- day event just concluded this weekend, with the highlight, the filming of a mock crash, the events leading up to it and
When tragedy strikes, losing a child or contemplating one’s likely untimely death, we are caused to think about life differently… I have been thinking how I have been able, as I continue to mourn the loss of my daughter, Casey, to be grateful for so many things – the 21 years I had with Casey, all those who love me and who I love and my client, for teaching me about how we can choose to look at what we have and not what we have lost. [….]
Don Enss, from Murfreesboro, Tennessee never knew Casey Feldman, the inspiration behind EndDD.org (End Distracted Driving), a project of the Casey Feldman Foundation. Yet, he read her story and was moved to write a letter to his local newspaper, the Daily News Journal. He had driven I-24 to Nashville and had seen a message board
It was great to spend the day at West High School in Salt Lake City speaking with students in their health class, thanks to Jenne Hamlin, the health teacher who coordinated the talks. The students were great — really attentive and interactive. All told, there were 4 different presentations. The students were not distracted by
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