Learning to Drive: Smoking While Driving
Smoking is stupid, smelly and unhealthy. It’s also a distraction that takes a hand off the wheel.
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Learning to Drive: Eating While Driving
You need two hands on the wheel. Eating and drinking are distractions that take your mind off driving and at least one hand off the wheel.
Learning to Drive: Distractions from Passengers
Passengers have responsibilities too. They need to respect the driver and make sure the environment is calm and safe so the driver can concentrate on driving.
Learn to Drive: Free Online Course to Help Parents Teach Their Teens to be Safe Drivers
If you have a new teen driver in the family (or a teen who will be driving soon), take advantage [...]
Driver ED: Woman Driver Gives Birth at 70 mph!
If you’ve been living in North America for the last 6 months, you know how dangerous it is to text [...]
Learn to Drive: National Youth Traffic Safety Month
For teens, spring and summer months represent a time of fun, freedom and excitement. This celebratory season includes prom, graduation, [...]
Driving Tips: Types of Distractions When Driving
Music Teens love their tunes. Whether it’s CDs, MP3s, or the radio – music is a big part of their [...]
Driving Tips: Examples of Dangerous Distractions
Nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involved some form of driver inattention within three seconds before [...]
Driving Safety Tips: Cell Phones and Other Distractions
When You’re in a Car: Talking on a Cell Phone is NOT the Same as Talking to Your Passenger. [...]
Learn to Drive: Texting While Driving….The Dangers
Dr. Strayer warns teens, “Every generation thinks they’re different. We all think we’re better drivers than our parents. Teens [...]
Driver ED: Graduated Driver License (GDL)
Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) programs are more complicated than the old systems but worth every ounce of effort that went into putting them together – and then some! They really do save lives.
Learning to Drive: GDL Passenger Restrictions are Reducing Teen Deaths
One of the key restrictions in Graduated Driver Licensing programs restricts the number of teen-aged passengers in the car. States [...]
Teens Learning to Drive: What’s Up with Parents in New Jersey?
It bothers me when people fight new laws just for the sake of it. Some laws are really there to [...]
Learn to Drive: Passing Farm Tractors
Many deaths or serious injuries have occurred when passing a farm tractor.
Learn to Drive: Emergency Stops with ABS Brakes
During normal stopping, ABS work the same as other types of brakes, but in emergency stopping situations you need to operate them differently.
Teens Learn to Drive: Starting and Stopping Smoothly
Practice starting and stopping until you get the feel for the gas and brake pedals and can apply pressure evenly.
Learn to Drive: Proper Steering
New drivers often make a big mistake by trying to stay in the middle of their lane by micro-steering the car. They watch the lines on the road and try to stay within them. You can’t do it and it’s dangerous to drive that way. You need to be looking much further down the road.
Teens Learn to Drive: Changing a Tire
Changing a tire is dirty, nail-breaking work and, with luck, you may never need to do it. But just knowing that you could do it, if you needed to, is empowering! Knowing what to do and being able to take charge in an emergency could also make you someone else’s hero.
Teens Learn to Drive: Checking Your Tires
If you don’t look after your tires you’ll spend way more money on gas because you won’t go as far on each gallon. But that’s not all! Bald, under-inflated or over-inflated tires are dangerous! They cause accidents, injuries and even – deaths.
Learn to Drive: Checking Coolant
One of the other fluid levels to keep an eye on is COOLANT. It’s a greenish or orange-ish liquid that’s sometimes called antifreeze.
Learn to Drive: How to Check Your Oil
Remember the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz? He couldn’t reach his oilcan so he rusted so badly he couldn’t move. Your car needs oil as badly as the Tin Man but you need to be more proactive about taking care of it.
Driver Ed: Parents as Driving Coaches
No Teen is Really a Safe Driver Watch the news any evening and you’ll quickly realize that driving is dangerous [...]
Teen Drivers Need More Sleep to Stay Safe
Drowsy driving is extremely dangerous, especially for teens because their internal clocks are already out-of-whack. Most teens have a hard [...]
Learn to Drive: Consequences of Drinking and Driving
Facts about Alcohol The more alcohol teens drink, the less likely they are to buckle up. (Drivers and passengers.) 80% [...]
Learn to Drive: News Item on Drunk Driving Accident
Have a Back-up Plan If you drive, it’s your responsibility to stay sober and get all your passengers home safely. [...]
Learn to Drive: Summer is the Most Dangerous Time for Teen Drivers
Last year in North Carolina, 139 teens were killed in car crashes. The highway patrol is pulling out all stops [...]
Teen Driving News – Latest Car Crash Statistics Involving Teen Drivers
The latest National Young Driver Survey from State Farm and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, highlights 4 risk factors that [...]
Driving Safety Tips: What Shape is Your Vehicle In?
This is the first holiday weekend of the summer and everybody (that can) heads north to get out of the [...]
Learning to Drive: Avoiding a Rollover
8 Tips for Avoiding a Rollover
(Nearly 75% of all rollover crashes occur in rural areas. Use extra caution on rural roads.)
Seat Belts Save Lives
Katie Marchetti died because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. She’ll always be 16 to her family.
Learning to Drive: A Car is Not a Bike with 4 wheels
Every parent remembers the day their child mastered the 2-wheeler. Perhaps there were a few preliminary lessons, maybe even a [...]
Learning to Drive: Diddy Buys His 16 Year-Old Son a Stupid Car
Sean P. “Diddy” Combs has created an empire that’s earning him a fortune. It’s a shame he can’t devote a [...]
Learn to Drive: Airbag Safety
Airbag Safety Seatbelts combined with airbags provide the best protection for drivers and front-seat passengers. In every crash there are [...]
Learn to Drive: Lone Survivor Wore a Seatbelt
Groups LEAST Likely to Wear Seat Belts: Males Youths: Ages 16 – 24 Occupants of Pickup Trucks Rural Occupants Rear [...]
Learn to Drive: Developing a Seatbelt Habit
Two-thirds of teen drivers and passengers killed in crashes were not wearing seat belts. Some teens think it’s cool not [...]
Funny Video of Ellen Degeneres and Teaching Driving
Ellen uses humor to teach teens how NOT to drive.
Driver ED: Seatbelts Can Have Other Uses
Seatbelts can serve other purposes as this video points out :~)
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Learning to Drive: Smoking While Driving
Smoking is stupid, smelly and unhealthy. It’s also a distraction that takes a hand off the wheel.
Learning to Drive: Eating While Driving
You need two hands on the wheel. Eating and drinking are distractions that take your mind off driving and at least one hand off the wheel.
Learning to Drive: Distractions from Passengers
Passengers have responsibilities too. They need to respect the driver and make sure the environment is calm and safe so the driver can concentrate on driving.
Learn to Drive: Free Online Course to Help Parents Teach Their Teens to be Safe Drivers
If you have a new teen driver in the family (or a teen who will be driving soon), take advantage [...]
Driver ED: Woman Driver Gives Birth at 70 mph!
If you’ve been living in North America for the last 6 months, you know how dangerous it is to text [...]
Teen Drivers Need More Sleep to Stay Safe
Drowsy driving is extremely dangerous, especially for teens because their internal clocks are already out-of-whack. Most teens have a hard [...]
Learn to Drive: Consequences of Drinking and Driving
Facts about Alcohol The more alcohol teens drink, the less likely they are to buckle up. (Drivers and passengers.) 80% [...]
Learn to Drive: News Item on Drunk Driving Accident
Have a Back-up Plan If you drive, it’s your responsibility to stay sober and get all your passengers home safely. [...]
Learning to Drive: Avoiding a Rollover
8 Tips for Avoiding a Rollover
(Nearly 75% of all rollover crashes occur in rural areas. Use extra caution on rural roads.)
Seat Belts Save Lives
Katie Marchetti died because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. She’ll always be 16 to her family.
Learning to Drive: A Car is Not a Bike with 4 wheels
Every parent remembers the day their child mastered the 2-wheeler. Perhaps there were a few preliminary lessons, maybe even a [...]
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7/26/2010
Seat Belts Save Lives
Katie Marchetti died because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. She’ll always be 16 to her family.
5/4/2010
Learn to Drive: Lone Survivor Wore a Seatbelt
Groups LEAST Likely to Wear Seat Belts: Males Youths: Ages 16 – 24 Occupants of Pickup Trucks Rural Occupants Rear [...]