By Sean W. Have you ever been driving and signaled, only to have the cars around you notice, speed up and make an effort to block you out? If not, you probably haven’t been driving more than a week. That or you don’t use a turn signal which is an obvious poor choice for numerous […]
Nearly 80 percent of crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involved some form of driver inattention within three seconds before the event
Seatbelts can serve other purposes
When teens learn to drive some think it’s cool not wearing seatbelts. But 1 in 10 teens who learn to drive this year will have a potentially fatal crash.
Learn to drive without alcohol. The more alcohol, the less likely you are to buckle up. 80% of teens who die in alcohol related crashes were not buckled up.
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.
Teens learning how to drive a car have grown up with cell phones. Parents must use their authority to have their teen learn to drive without a cell phone.
As teens learn to drive it is important to recognize sources of distractions. When learning how to drive a car teens must be trained to remove distractions.
In the first year of driving teens have the greatest risk of crashing. Making a habit of wearing a seatbelt as you learn to drive may save you in a crash.
Teens can learn how to drive a car from stories of other teens making fatal errors when driving a car. To stay safe teens must learn to drive without errors.
Teens learning how to drive a car can’t have distractions from phones. To stay safe teens must learn to drive with their phones turned off while driving a car.
Your parents learned how to drive a car before there were cell phones, ipads, GPS devices etc. Today’s teens need to learn to drive and not be distracted.
The 1st year of driving a car is the most dangerous. Many teens crash. Therefore learning how to drive a car needs to include safety at a crash site.
Awareness campaigns to teens as they learn how to drive a car, combined with other preventive measures can decrease the amount of drowsy driving crashes.
Toyota has a front seatbelt air bag and Ford, a rear seatbelt system. Making a habit wearing a seatbelt is critical for new drivers learning how to drive a car.
These campaigns are part of a growing concern about the need for teens to learn how to drive a car in a safe and responsible manner.
Fewer students report riding with alcohol–impaired drivers after attending school-based learning how to drive a car programs.
Drugs have adverse effects on judgment, reaction time and motor skills – critical for driving a car especially for teens just learning how to drive a car safely.
Seatbelts separate car crashes from fatal car crashes. They save lives. Why don’t teens, inexperienced in how to drive a car, wear them when driving a car?
Teens are learning how to drive a car and are driving cars in an environment choking with distractions. Laws are ineffective so parents need to be the solution.
Teens Learn to Drive is a Canadian non-profit organization focused on reducing death and serious injury on the roads.
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