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15
May

Distracted driving speaker visits Salida schools

Reprinted from The Mountain News: Joel Feldman, a Pennsylvania father who lost his daughter because of distracted driving, spoke to Salida High School and Crest Academy students at a special assembly Tuesday. Crest Academy seventh-grader Tyler Brown helped bring Feldman to Salida for his presentation. Brown said that while researching a project about distracted driving, he found EndDD.org, founded by Feldman, and used some of his information for his project [….]

14
May

Joel Feldman Receives 2014 Maryland Association for Justice Civil Justice Award for Distracted Driving Awareness Campaign

Joel Feldman, EndDD.org founder, has been working tirelessly to spread the message that distracted driving is risky driving and that distracted driving crashes are 100% preventable.  His message has reached Maryland and with the help of the Maryland Association for Justice (MAJ) members, that message is being heard by teens across Maryland. Joel was recently

05
May

University of Michigan Study – 90% of Parents Drive Distracted With Children in the Car

May is Global Youth Traffic Safety Month, a month designated to bring awareness to the fact that traffic accidents are the number 1 killer of teens and to get teens involved in the solution. We at EndDD.org know that distracted driving is not just a teen issue. We ask teens, as part of our presentation,

05
May

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Distracted Driving Presentations—Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and EndDD.org

The results of analysis of surveys completed in connection with our pilot program in 2012 have been released in a CHOP Research Institute White Paper dated April 9, 2014, “Evaluation of EndDD.org’s Student Awareness Initiative: Effectiveness of a Program to Prevent Teen Distracted Driving.” […]

03
May

May is Global Youth Traffic Safety Month

The leading cause of death for teens in the United States is traffic crashes. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,  teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers. Global Youth Traffic Safety Month was designated to highlight these tragic statistics  and reduce the number of teen injuries

30
Apr

EndDD part of Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities

EndDD.org was privileged to exhibit at the annual Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Prioriies on April 27-29, 2014 in Nashville, TN. Lifesavers is the largest gathering of highway safety professionals in the U.S. dedicated to reducing the tragic toll of deaths and injuries on our nation’s roadways. We were also honored that EndDD.org founder, Joel Feldman, Esq., MS, Philadelphia, PA was one of the speakers […]

25
Apr

Not So Fast – Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving

“A concise, practical and potentially life-saving book that should be required reading for every parent before their teen gets behind the wheel.” Publishers Weekly, 7/15/13 Car crashes are the leading cause of death and injury to teens.  Promoting safer teen driving depends on teaching driving skills, adopting and enforcing teen driving laws, and parent oversight.