Distracted Driving Archives | Page 27 of 45 | EndDD

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. 

20
Apr

Cognitive Distractions: Safe driving requires our brains to be entirely focused on driving

It is not enough to be holding the wheel and looking at the road-we need to devote our full attention to the task of driving. If we are not concentrating entirely on driving because we are trying to think about a secondary task – a cell phone conversation, texting, reading e-mails, etc  -than we are

05
Apr

Distracted Driving-Teens whose parents drive distracted are 2 to 4 times as likely to also drive distracted*

EndDD.org’s newest PSA targets parents and implores parents to model safe driving. Our children learn from us—our good habits and our bad. It’s not enough to tell our children how to drive we must show them.   Be the driver you want your child to be. For more suggestions for what parents, teens and businesses