The Novice Driver’s Road Map – Guide for Parents
Practice is the key to a novice driver’s education. To help parents succeed as a driving coach, NETS has produced a new edition of The Novice Driver’s Road Map, an 8-step guide for parents. The Road Map is an easy-to-follow “curriculum” for parents to guide teens in the practice needed to be a safe, focused […]
‘U Txt. Ur Next.’ Teens Talk to Teens About Safe Driving
Three Michigan high schools have received grants to design campaigns that that help teens talk to teens about safe driving in the hopes of reducing serious crashes, injuries and fatalities.
Deaths Among Young Teen Drivers Soar
Countering a more than decade-long trend, the fatality rate among young teen drivers rose sharply during the first six months of 2012, something experts fear may be the result of distracted driving.
Kylie Chappell, Safety Compliance Manager
In doing research for this month’s topic of Teen Driving, I found the statistics startling. In a 2010 study conducted by the National Safety Council, it is reported that an average of 10 teens died each day in motor vehicle collisions in the United States in 2009. The majority of teenage related traffic collisions are […]
Welcome to the Latest Issue of Driving Safety!
As Kylie mentions later in this issue, the statistics for young adult traffic deaths and injury are staggering. In fact, it is the leading cause of death for those between the ages of 15 and 25! Stemming this tide requires awareness of the facts and disciplined action on the part of parents, schools and government […]
