2013

Parents with teenage drivers are being encouraged to help those teens get the proper driving education.  Once a month until the end of the year, the California Highway Patrol will be hosting Start Smart classes to interested parties.  What separates this from some other training courses is the fact that parents are invited to drop… read more

Thanks to a more than $200,000 grant, BikeSGV, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, and Multicultural Communities for Mobility will be offering a series of bike safety classes for new riders and seasoned pros alike throughout the rest of the summer.  The LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is providing for the lessons, which will take… read more

Yesterday, AT & T brought their “It Can Wait” anti-distracted driving demonstration by Golden Valley High School in Merced.  500 or so seniors took part in the event, which found speakers stressing to students the importance of always exhibiting restraint when tempted to text at the wheel.  Representatives of the local police department were also… read more

Recently, students of the Fontana Unified School District were able to participate in an event that sought to drive home the dangers presented while texting or talking on a cellphone at the wheel.  Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol helped put on the event, which found teen drivers attempting to navigate an obstacle course while… read more

Every 15 Minutes dropped by Lodi High School last week in a bid to educate teenagers about the real world ramifications of texting and driving and drunk driving.  Throughout the day, a designated Grim Reaper wandered through the halls to pull a student out of their classroom at 15 minute intervals.  That teen would then… read more

A Georgia Bikes! grant has allowed the League of American Bicyclists to teach five experienced cyclists about how they can train others on bike safety in Augusta.  The three day curriculum was focused on how to navigate in traffic, in groups, and what steps to take to ensure safety in general when riding to your… read more

Hundreds of students and faculty at a Tennessee high school have signed a pledge not to text while driving. A Criminal Justice teacher and her students at Cleveland High School successfully led a drive to get signatures affixed to a “No Phone Zone” written pledge.  The effort resulted in almost 1,000 signatures. The teacher also… read more

An abundance of automobile crashes at South Carolina’s Beaufort High School prompted the principal to intervene on behalf of safety.  Students now have to take a safety course called “Alive at 25” in order to earn the privilege of leaving their vehicles in the student parking lot at the school. Schools across the nation have… read more

A new docudrama by an award-winning filmmaker vividly portrays the tragedy that can result from distracted driving. To produce the film, the director employed twenty students from Pine Lake Prep School in Mooresville, North Carolina. Viewers have found the film to be so realistic in its presentation that some have even believed the vehicular accident… read more

The Wisconsin State Patrol is making sure that the consequences of texting while driving are well known to high school students in the state. AAA and AT & T will aid them in their efforts to end texting while driving. Thus, high schools in Burlington, Racine, Wausau, La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Madison will host… read more

16% of all accidents caused by distracted driving happen to people younger than 20. The Illinois State Police recently set up a simulation in Quincy so that teens could see what might happen to them if they’re texting while driving. Miss Illinois participated and crashed into a truck while typing “hello.” The Illinois police want… read more

The Motor Vehicle Administration and a group called Shock Trauma worked together to create a video to educate people about the dangers of texting while driving. According to the article, police have begun to pull over many drivers they see texting and driving in Maryland. Although young drivers are the main target of the video,… read more