ROSEVILLE - We're in the middle of National Teen Driver Safety Week, and this year's theme is "Reducing Driving Distractions."
It's a cause that is near and dear to News10's Great Hang Up campaign. That's why we had a booth at Impact Teen Drivers' Teen/Parent Driving Safety Fair.
At Roseville's All American Speedway, California Highway Patrol Commissioner Joe Farrow told the teenage crowd, "If you die premature in this world before your time, the chances are it'll be because of an automobile collision... and remember that. That's the most important thing you'll learn here today."
The big man on top at the CHP told us it's especially important to send the message to young drivers today.
"This is the generation that grew up on cell phones and grew up on texting," Farrow said. "It's what they do, and what we're trying to illustrate to them is you can't mix that with driving because your attention needs to be fully committed to driving. There are so many things going on simultaneously."
Many teens told us texting and talking on the cell phone is a way of life.
15-year-old Mikayla George said, "24-7, I probably text thousands of times a day."
The habit is one of a few distractions that kills thousands of young people every year behind the wheel. Farrow said he and his officers hate to be the bearer of horrible news by telling a parent his or her child is another victim.
"It's the most difficult thing we do, and I know it impacts all of our officers deeply when they have to do that," said the commissioner.
Farrow told us events like these are a great supplemental tool, learning defensive driving, making a promise like News10's Great Hang Up pledge, but the message must start and continue in the home.
Teen driver Alayjah Brown agreed, "We get lectures all the time. We'll be watching a movie, and she'll be just whispering in our ear, 'You don't want that to happen to you, make sure you're safe.'"
Alayjah's mother, Akeeya Johnson said those "lectures" would maybe one day save her children's lives.
"I just hope I'm doing what I can as a parent to protect her and keep her safe," said Johnson.
Farrow said Johnson is doing exactly what she should.
"We know what the cause is. We know what the antidote is, and the antidote is the parents. It's all about learning and all about teaching."
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Organization Promotes Safe Driving for Teens
By Don Riley/Network Indiana
10/19/2010
It's National Teen Driver Safety week, an opportunity to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving among young drivers.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teens. Driver distractions are a contributing factor, including cell phone usage, passengers in the vehicle, eating while driving and loud music.
Indiana Criminal Justice Institute executive director Neil Moore says they've partnered with several organizations to promote safe teen driving habits statewide. He says the institute tracks volumes of crash data on Hoosier teens.
ICJI is paying close attention to how the graduated drivers licensing law is affecting teen driver safety.
The law, aimed at drivers under the age of 18, went into effect in July 2009 with additional restrictions added a year later.
In a couple of years, Moore hopes the data begins to show that limiting driver distractions and increasing the age to obtain a drivers permit reduces vehicle crashes among Indiana's teen drivers.
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10/19/2010
It's National Teen Driver Safety week, an opportunity to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving among young drivers.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teens. Driver distractions are a contributing factor, including cell phone usage, passengers in the vehicle, eating while driving and loud music.
Indiana Criminal Justice Institute executive director Neil Moore says they've partnered with several organizations to promote safe teen driving habits statewide. He says the institute tracks volumes of crash data on Hoosier teens.
ICJI is paying close attention to how the graduated drivers licensing law is affecting teen driver safety.
The law, aimed at drivers under the age of 18, went into effect in July 2009 with additional restrictions added a year later.
In a couple of years, Moore hopes the data begins to show that limiting driver distractions and increasing the age to obtain a drivers permit reduces vehicle crashes among Indiana's teen drivers.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Starting your very own small business with Alco-Buddy
We all can agree that the economy is in a real tough state and jobs are very scarce. What better way to get rid of the dependence of an employer and start your very own business. Alco-Buddy gives everyone the opportunity to start thier own business by putting the Alco-Buddy Breathalyzer Vending Machine product in establishments in the community of choice. Not only will you the business owner make money off the Alco-Buddy product but also you will be promoting awareness and setting the tone in the establishment showing that the owners care about thier customers.
Alco-buddy has many package deals that will help new and existing business owners to get started. Alco-buddy machines can be purchased as single units or in large quantities. By purchasing an Alco-Buddy Breathalyzer Machine(s) you are also supporting safe and responsible drinking. The Alco-Buddy business is committed to helping you become successful and how to start up your very own growing business. Alco-Buddy can help you choose the best target businesses in your area and show you the does and what nots of the business.
For more information on Alco-Buddy and how to start your business today, visit our website. We look forward to working with you. www.alcobuddy.com
Alco-buddy has many package deals that will help new and existing business owners to get started. Alco-buddy machines can be purchased as single units or in large quantities. By purchasing an Alco-Buddy Breathalyzer Machine(s) you are also supporting safe and responsible drinking. The Alco-Buddy business is committed to helping you become successful and how to start up your very own growing business. Alco-Buddy can help you choose the best target businesses in your area and show you the does and what nots of the business.
For more information on Alco-Buddy and how to start your business today, visit our website. We look forward to working with you. www.alcobuddy.com
Abolish Drunk Driving Laws
If lawmakers are serious about saving lives, they should focus on impairment, not alcohol.
Radley Balko | October 11, 2010
Last week Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo advocated creating a new criminal offense: "driving while ability impaired." The problem with the current Texas law prohibiting "driving while intoxicated" (DWI), Acevedo explained, is that it doesn't allow him to arrest a driver whose blood-alcohol content (BAC) is below 0.08 percent without additional evidence of impairment.
"People sometimes focus on how many drinks they can have before they'll go to jail," Acevedo told the Austin-American Statesman. "It varies….A person may be intoxicated at 0.05, and you don't want them out driving." Acevedo wants to be able to arrest people with BAC levels as low as 0.05 percent, and he may have support for that idea in the state legislature. John Whitmire (D-Houston), chairman of the state Senate's Criminal Justice Committee, told the Statesman Acevedo's plan "might be one way to go," adding, "Some people shouldn't be driving after one drink—probably below the 0.08 limit—and this could address that."
Bill Lewis, head of the Texas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, agreed. "I don't see how it would hurt," he told the paper. "The level of 0.08 is where we know most people are good and drunk...and there are people who are driving at less than the limit who probably should not be. It might keep some people from driving [drunk] again."
Acevedo, Whitmore, and Lewis are right, although probably not in the way they intended. People do react to alcohol differently. For many people one drink may well be too many, while experienced drinkers can function relatively normally with a BAC at or above the legal threshold for presuming intoxication. A person's impairment may also depend on variables such as the medications he is taking and the amount of sleep he got the night before. Acevedo et al.'s objections to the legal definition of intoxication highlight the absurdity of drawing an arbitrary, breathalyzer-based line between sobriety and criminal intoxication.
The right solution, however, is not to push the artificial line back farther. Instead we should get rid of it entirely by repealing drunk driving laws.
Consider the 2000 federal law that pressured states to lower their BAC standards to 0.08 from 0.10. At the time, the average BAC in alcohol-related fatal accidents was 0.17, and two-thirds of such accidents involved drivers with BACs of 0.14 or higher. In fact, drivers with BACs between 0.01 and 0.03 were involved in more fatal accidents than drivers with BACs between 0.08 and 0.10. (The federal government classifies a fatal accident as "alcohol-related" if it involved a driver, a biker, or a pedestrian with a BAC of 0.01 or more, whether or not drinking actually contributed to the accident.) In 1995 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration studied traffic data in 30 safety categories from the first five states to adopt the new DWI standard. In 21 of the 30 categories, those states were either no different from or less safe than the rest of the country.
Once the 0.08 standard took effect nationwide in 2000, a curious thing happened: Alcohol-related traffic fatalities increased, following a 20-year decline. Critics of the 0.08 standard predicted this would happen. The problem is that most people with a BAC between 0.08 and 0.10 don't drive erratically enough to be noticed by police officers in patrol cars. So police began setting up roadblocks to catch them. But every cop manning a roadblock aimed at catching motorists violating the new law is a cop not on the highways looking for more seriously impaired motorists. By 2004 alcohol-related fatalities went down again, but only because the decrease in states that don't use roadblocks compensated for a slight but continuing increase in the states that use them.
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Radley Balko | October 11, 2010
Last week Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo advocated creating a new criminal offense: "driving while ability impaired." The problem with the current Texas law prohibiting "driving while intoxicated" (DWI), Acevedo explained, is that it doesn't allow him to arrest a driver whose blood-alcohol content (BAC) is below 0.08 percent without additional evidence of impairment.
"People sometimes focus on how many drinks they can have before they'll go to jail," Acevedo told the Austin-American Statesman. "It varies….A person may be intoxicated at 0.05, and you don't want them out driving." Acevedo wants to be able to arrest people with BAC levels as low as 0.05 percent, and he may have support for that idea in the state legislature. John Whitmire (D-Houston), chairman of the state Senate's Criminal Justice Committee, told the Statesman Acevedo's plan "might be one way to go," adding, "Some people shouldn't be driving after one drink—probably below the 0.08 limit—and this could address that."
Bill Lewis, head of the Texas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, agreed. "I don't see how it would hurt," he told the paper. "The level of 0.08 is where we know most people are good and drunk...and there are people who are driving at less than the limit who probably should not be. It might keep some people from driving [drunk] again."
Acevedo, Whitmore, and Lewis are right, although probably not in the way they intended. People do react to alcohol differently. For many people one drink may well be too many, while experienced drinkers can function relatively normally with a BAC at or above the legal threshold for presuming intoxication. A person's impairment may also depend on variables such as the medications he is taking and the amount of sleep he got the night before. Acevedo et al.'s objections to the legal definition of intoxication highlight the absurdity of drawing an arbitrary, breathalyzer-based line between sobriety and criminal intoxication.
The right solution, however, is not to push the artificial line back farther. Instead we should get rid of it entirely by repealing drunk driving laws.
Consider the 2000 federal law that pressured states to lower their BAC standards to 0.08 from 0.10. At the time, the average BAC in alcohol-related fatal accidents was 0.17, and two-thirds of such accidents involved drivers with BACs of 0.14 or higher. In fact, drivers with BACs between 0.01 and 0.03 were involved in more fatal accidents than drivers with BACs between 0.08 and 0.10. (The federal government classifies a fatal accident as "alcohol-related" if it involved a driver, a biker, or a pedestrian with a BAC of 0.01 or more, whether or not drinking actually contributed to the accident.) In 1995 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration studied traffic data in 30 safety categories from the first five states to adopt the new DWI standard. In 21 of the 30 categories, those states were either no different from or less safe than the rest of the country.
Once the 0.08 standard took effect nationwide in 2000, a curious thing happened: Alcohol-related traffic fatalities increased, following a 20-year decline. Critics of the 0.08 standard predicted this would happen. The problem is that most people with a BAC between 0.08 and 0.10 don't drive erratically enough to be noticed by police officers in patrol cars. So police began setting up roadblocks to catch them. But every cop manning a roadblock aimed at catching motorists violating the new law is a cop not on the highways looking for more seriously impaired motorists. By 2004 alcohol-related fatalities went down again, but only because the decrease in states that don't use roadblocks compensated for a slight but continuing increase in the states that use them.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Save And The Allstate Foundation Sponsor Teen Safe Driving Activities
The Allstate Foundation presented a $10,000 grant to Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) to assist SAVE chapters in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin in their efforts to increase youth safety and promote teen safe driving. This grant from the Allstate Foundation will support the SAVE program in schools and community agencies. Teen safe driving awareness campaigns will be conducted during key times of the year including back-to-school, holidays, Teen Safe Driving Month (May), prom, and graduation.
The North Chicago High School SAVE Chapter will participate in violence prevention and back-to-school rallies. The chapter will raise awareness by posting school safety and teen driving posters throughout the school and community. They are preparing classroom training sessions on how to avoid gangs and organizing a membership drive at middle and high schools. Students are planning and developing activities for National Youth Violence Prevention Week in March 2011. Students will participate in Daisy's Development and Resource Center's Telethon in October and conduct Teen Safe Driving activities with their local Allstate Agent and the County Coroner before prom in May 2011.
With support from Allstate agents and employee volunteers, SAVE chapters will be able to provide leadership in their schools and communities to ensure that all students will be encouraged and empowered with healthy life skills while engaging in educational activities and opportunities to promote teen safe driving and youth safety.
SAVE is a peer-to-peer organization that focuses on the power of positive peer influences. According to a recent Allstate Foundation survey, Shifting Teen Attitudes: The State of Teen Driving 2009, peers are a major influence on teens – both positive and negative. Some of the concerning statistics that SAVE chapters will address include:
• Eighty-two percent of teens reported using cell phones while driving.
• Nearly half (48 percent) of girls admit they are likely to speed more than 10 mph over the limit, versus 36 percent of boys.
• Seventy-seven percent of teens admit they have felt unsafe with another teen's driving.
“This generous grant from The Allstate Foundation will assist students in finding real solutions to the issues of teen safe driving that they face each day,” stated SAVE’s executive director, Carleen Wray.
Previous assistance from The Allstate Foundation has benefited SAVE schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, and Ohio.
“By empowering teens to become smart driving activists in their schools and communities, we hope to reverse the staggering statistics,” said Bill McGrath, Regional Sales Leader for Allstate’s Midwest Region of Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. “Through programs like SAVE, we seek to develop innovative, teen-informed approaches to raise awareness of the issue and ultimately, to help save lives and reduce injuries.”
About the National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere: SAVE started at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, N.C. in 1989 following the tragic death of a student who was trying to break up a fight at an off-campus party. Students met first to console each other, then as an organization to promote violence prevention and to work together to prevent future incidents from occurring. SAVE provides education about the effects and consequences of violence and helps provide safe activities for students, parents and communities. For more information on SAVE or starting a SAVE chapter, visit www.nationalsave.org, or contact SAVE at (866) 343-SAVE to receive free start-up materials and guidance.
About The Allstate Foundation:
Established in 1952, The Allstate Foundation is an independent, charitable organization made possible by subsidiaries of The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL). Allstate and The Allstate Foundation sponsor community initiatives to promote safe and vital communities; tolerance, inclusion, and diversity; and economic empowerment. The Allstate Foundation believes in the financial potential of every individual and in helping America's families achieve their American dream.
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Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE), Inc. is a nonprofit organization striving to decrease violence in our schools and communities by promoting student involvement, education and service opportunities to provide safer environments for learning.
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The North Chicago High School SAVE Chapter will participate in violence prevention and back-to-school rallies. The chapter will raise awareness by posting school safety and teen driving posters throughout the school and community. They are preparing classroom training sessions on how to avoid gangs and organizing a membership drive at middle and high schools. Students are planning and developing activities for National Youth Violence Prevention Week in March 2011. Students will participate in Daisy's Development and Resource Center's Telethon in October and conduct Teen Safe Driving activities with their local Allstate Agent and the County Coroner before prom in May 2011.
With support from Allstate agents and employee volunteers, SAVE chapters will be able to provide leadership in their schools and communities to ensure that all students will be encouraged and empowered with healthy life skills while engaging in educational activities and opportunities to promote teen safe driving and youth safety.
SAVE is a peer-to-peer organization that focuses on the power of positive peer influences. According to a recent Allstate Foundation survey, Shifting Teen Attitudes: The State of Teen Driving 2009, peers are a major influence on teens – both positive and negative. Some of the concerning statistics that SAVE chapters will address include:
• Eighty-two percent of teens reported using cell phones while driving.
• Nearly half (48 percent) of girls admit they are likely to speed more than 10 mph over the limit, versus 36 percent of boys.
• Seventy-seven percent of teens admit they have felt unsafe with another teen's driving.
“This generous grant from The Allstate Foundation will assist students in finding real solutions to the issues of teen safe driving that they face each day,” stated SAVE’s executive director, Carleen Wray.
Previous assistance from The Allstate Foundation has benefited SAVE schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, and Ohio.
“By empowering teens to become smart driving activists in their schools and communities, we hope to reverse the staggering statistics,” said Bill McGrath, Regional Sales Leader for Allstate’s Midwest Region of Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. “Through programs like SAVE, we seek to develop innovative, teen-informed approaches to raise awareness of the issue and ultimately, to help save lives and reduce injuries.”
About the National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere: SAVE started at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, N.C. in 1989 following the tragic death of a student who was trying to break up a fight at an off-campus party. Students met first to console each other, then as an organization to promote violence prevention and to work together to prevent future incidents from occurring. SAVE provides education about the effects and consequences of violence and helps provide safe activities for students, parents and communities. For more information on SAVE or starting a SAVE chapter, visit www.nationalsave.org, or contact SAVE at (866) 343-SAVE to receive free start-up materials and guidance.
About The Allstate Foundation:
Established in 1952, The Allstate Foundation is an independent, charitable organization made possible by subsidiaries of The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL). Allstate and The Allstate Foundation sponsor community initiatives to promote safe and vital communities; tolerance, inclusion, and diversity; and economic empowerment. The Allstate Foundation believes in the financial potential of every individual and in helping America's families achieve their American dream.
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Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE), Inc. is a nonprofit organization striving to decrease violence in our schools and communities by promoting student involvement, education and service opportunities to provide safer environments for learning.
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Drunk driving penalties to get tougher
Nova Scotia is about to get tougher on drinking drivers.
As a result of a change to the province’s Motor Vehicle Act that goes into effect on Oct. 26, drivers with blood-alcohol levels between 50 milligrams and 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood will lose their licences for seven days for a first offence, up from 24 hours. The penalty for a second offence is 15 days and 30 days for a third offence.
Drivers also must pay an $89.63 fee to get their licences reinstated.
Those discovered to have 80 milligrams of alcohol or higher in 100 millilitres of blood will continue to face criminal charges.
Margaret Miller, the national past president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the move is something the organization has been advocating for many years.
"I think, literally, eight to 10 years it’s been on our radar as one of the measures that would significantly reduce impaired-driving deaths and injuries," said the Shubenacadie woman whose son was killed by a drunk driver in 2004.
The change to the Motor Vehicle Act was passed last October but its implementation has been delayed. In an interview in May, Transportation Minister Bill Estabrooks blamed the delay on computer problems at Service Nova Scotia.
Miller said her organization will continue to push for random breath testing as another way to reduce the 70,000 deaths and injuries due to impaired driving that occur in Canada every year.
Random breath testing is used in many countries around the world, where statistics show decreases in deaths and injuries of 18 to 35 per cent after the random tests were introduced, she said.
"The real expectation in Canada is that if random breath testing comes into play, we’re going to see 20 per cent less deaths and injuries. If you take that from the 70,000, that’s a small town in Nova Scotia that will not be affected each year. . . . When you start looking at those numbers, my only question as a mother who has lost somebody is ‘Why didn’t they do this years ago?
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As a result of a change to the province’s Motor Vehicle Act that goes into effect on Oct. 26, drivers with blood-alcohol levels between 50 milligrams and 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood will lose their licences for seven days for a first offence, up from 24 hours. The penalty for a second offence is 15 days and 30 days for a third offence.
Drivers also must pay an $89.63 fee to get their licences reinstated.
Those discovered to have 80 milligrams of alcohol or higher in 100 millilitres of blood will continue to face criminal charges.
Margaret Miller, the national past president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the move is something the organization has been advocating for many years.
"I think, literally, eight to 10 years it’s been on our radar as one of the measures that would significantly reduce impaired-driving deaths and injuries," said the Shubenacadie woman whose son was killed by a drunk driver in 2004.
The change to the Motor Vehicle Act was passed last October but its implementation has been delayed. In an interview in May, Transportation Minister Bill Estabrooks blamed the delay on computer problems at Service Nova Scotia.
Miller said her organization will continue to push for random breath testing as another way to reduce the 70,000 deaths and injuries due to impaired driving that occur in Canada every year.
Random breath testing is used in many countries around the world, where statistics show decreases in deaths and injuries of 18 to 35 per cent after the random tests were introduced, she said.
"The real expectation in Canada is that if random breath testing comes into play, we’re going to see 20 per cent less deaths and injuries. If you take that from the 70,000, that’s a small town in Nova Scotia that will not be affected each year. . . . When you start looking at those numbers, my only question as a mother who has lost somebody is ‘Why didn’t they do this years ago?
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Safe driving stressed to students
With the real-life tragedy of a car crash that killed four Tracy teens in mid-September, Millennium High School students heard a message Thursday that hit close to home.
“It’s scary: Right when you are learning how to drive, you are at the highest risk of getting in an accident,” Kelly Browning told the students in a morning assembly. She’s the California executive director of Impact Teen Drivers, an organization that endeavors to make teens aware of the risks of reckless and distracted driving.
Sophomore Jordan Northcutt said she’s starting to think about getting her driver’s permit, and the presentation was instructive.
“They gave good tips on how to drive,” she said.
The Sept. 18 crash near Schulte and Lammers roads left a recent Millennium graduate and three other Tracy teens dead. Investigators said the car was speeding when the driver lost control, ran up a dirt embankment and flipped over, landing in a nearby canal.
For more than an hour Thursday, folks from Impact Teen Drivers and the California Highway Patrol stressed the importance of safe driving to the charter school’s freshman and sophomore students by combining heartfelt talks, student participation and striking video presentations.
Teens, especially, are at risk of making fatal driving choices. Car crashes are the No. 1 cause of death for young people from ages 16 to 20, according to Impact Teen Drivers. About 25 percent of fatal teen crashes happen when alcohol and drugs are involved. The rest can be chalked up to recklessness, distractions and the inexperience of youth.
When Browning asked if anyone had ever lost someone they knew in a car accident, most of the students raised their hands.
“We’ve had kids going to teens’ funerals this year,” said Scott Snyder, a teacher at Millenium. “It was probably one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had.”
In his closing remarks, event partner Ken Ucci of Get Real Behind the Wheel recalled another teen driving fatality. His son Mike was killed in 2007 when a car he was in crashed in front of West High School.
“You and I have to make an effort to become more aware and look out for each other,” said Ucci, who added with tears in his eyes that his son would probably be attending University of the Pacific if he hadn’t died.
During lunch at the school, Ucci and Browning were out with the students, giving them a chance to enter a sweepstakes to win either $1,000 or enrollment in racecar driving school. Ucci also handed out safe driving contracts for teens and parents.
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“It’s scary: Right when you are learning how to drive, you are at the highest risk of getting in an accident,” Kelly Browning told the students in a morning assembly. She’s the California executive director of Impact Teen Drivers, an organization that endeavors to make teens aware of the risks of reckless and distracted driving.
Sophomore Jordan Northcutt said she’s starting to think about getting her driver’s permit, and the presentation was instructive.
“They gave good tips on how to drive,” she said.
The Sept. 18 crash near Schulte and Lammers roads left a recent Millennium graduate and three other Tracy teens dead. Investigators said the car was speeding when the driver lost control, ran up a dirt embankment and flipped over, landing in a nearby canal.
For more than an hour Thursday, folks from Impact Teen Drivers and the California Highway Patrol stressed the importance of safe driving to the charter school’s freshman and sophomore students by combining heartfelt talks, student participation and striking video presentations.
Teens, especially, are at risk of making fatal driving choices. Car crashes are the No. 1 cause of death for young people from ages 16 to 20, according to Impact Teen Drivers. About 25 percent of fatal teen crashes happen when alcohol and drugs are involved. The rest can be chalked up to recklessness, distractions and the inexperience of youth.
When Browning asked if anyone had ever lost someone they knew in a car accident, most of the students raised their hands.
“We’ve had kids going to teens’ funerals this year,” said Scott Snyder, a teacher at Millenium. “It was probably one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had.”
In his closing remarks, event partner Ken Ucci of Get Real Behind the Wheel recalled another teen driving fatality. His son Mike was killed in 2007 when a car he was in crashed in front of West High School.
“You and I have to make an effort to become more aware and look out for each other,” said Ucci, who added with tears in his eyes that his son would probably be attending University of the Pacific if he hadn’t died.
During lunch at the school, Ucci and Browning were out with the students, giving them a chance to enter a sweepstakes to win either $1,000 or enrollment in racecar driving school. Ucci also handed out safe driving contracts for teens and parents.
Read more: Tracy Press - Safe driving stressed to students
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