Recognizing his leadership and tireless work to help people recovering from serious injuries and to save lives by ending distracted driving, Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia named Joel Feldman of Springfield, PA a 2013 Champion in the Community, an honor recognized by the Pennsylvania State Senate
With a Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General and state lawmakers joining the cause, EndDD.org reached out to drivers and their passengers in Delaware and Pennsylvania, especially teenagers, with an urgent and life-saving warning to change their driving habits and stop driving distracted.
“This past weekend, on April 6, we celebrated my daughter Casey’s 25th birthday. But Casey wasn’t there. She was killed in 2009 by a distracted driver, a 58-year-old man behind the wheel of a van. He took his eyes off the road for just a few seconds. Pink was Casey’s favorite color, so we released pink balloons in her memory….” Read the post of Casey’s father, Joel Feldman, founder of EndDD.org on the U.S. DOT site.
… I went on to Fordham University, where I made a great friend named Casey. This is the moment where I showed the students a slide with photos of Casey and myself throughout our time together, as well as two Facebook wall posts from Casey. In this moment, the audience realized my direct connection to this cause and the root of my passion for this issue.
Joel Feldman holds a picture of his daughter, Casey, while he discusses the dangers of distracted driving during a driver education class at Longmont High School in CO.
The EndDD campaign has been taken to Massachusetts and kicked off at the State Capital in a press conference
All of us here at The Casey Feldman Foundation and EndDD are thrilled that commissioners in Montgomery County, PA passed a resolution declaring next week Distracted Driving Awareness Week (April 9-15th).
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