22 Is Nationwide Teen Driver Security Week, But Our Children Deserve To Have Us Focused
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October sixteen-22 Is Nationwide Teen Driver Security Week, However Our Youngsters Should Have Us Centered On Teen Visitors Safety 52 Weeks Of The Year
10/20/2016 04:05 pm ET Up to date 2 days ago
Joel Feldman Founder, The Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation and
It is wonderful that many organizations, together with mine, (Finish Distracted Driving) , will be holding occasions, providing resources and highlighting measures to keep teenagers safer on the highways this week. Focusing attention on the epidemic of teenage crashes, including fatalities, can solely assist in our battle to maintain our teens protected. However given that motor vehicle crashes are the main reason behind death for teens, should not we be working to save lots of teen lives all year long? 2015 saw the biggest share enhance in visitors fatalities in 50 years, reversing what had been a general downward trend in traffic fatalities since 2007. In a latest GHSA report , it was found that crash fatalities for teens increased by 10%, a higher share than any other age group. Preliminary estimates for 2016 suggest that this awful pattern will proceed and that 2015 was not an aberration. Teens are killed in motorcar crashes at a fee almost 3 times that of another age group. It is undisputed that our cars have gotten safer with more airbags, electronic stability control and anti-lock braking techniques. Applications concentrating on seat belt use and impaired driving have also lowered crashes and, together with safety improvements to our cars, are doubtless explanations for the downward pattern in fatalities from 2007-14. So how can we clarify this sudden enhance in traffic fatalities typically, and specifically for teenagers?
In its "2015 Motor Vehicle Crashes: Overview," NHTSA noted that there was a 7.2% enhance in fatalities in 2015 as compared with 2014. In wanting closer at the data, for fatalities attributable to "Human Selection," it was discovered that no class increased as a lot as fatalities attributable to distracted driving. Specifically, distracted driving fatalities elevated by eight.8.%, fatalities attributable to failure to wear seat belts 4.9%, from impaired driving 3.2% and from rushing 3.0%. It has lengthy been believed that the proportion of crashes attributable to distracted driving is underreported, and a latest research by AAA Foundation for Traffic Security urged that distracted driving now could also be concerned in additional than 50% of great teen crashes.
So what can we do fifty two weeks of the yr to keep our children secure? Parents can put away their smartphones whereas driving and mannequin protected distraction-free driving for his or her youngsters. Mother and father need to be the drivers that they want their youngsters to be. All of us, teenagers and adults, when passengers, should require our drivers to drive with out distraction. As passengers, now we have a alternative to take a seat within the automobile and preserve quiet when our driver drives unsafely or we will converse up. Talking up and insisting that we be driven distraction-free exhibits that we care and can change drivers' behaviors.
Via , I communicate with teens and adults throughout the country about distracted driving using science-based mostly presentations developed with the assistance of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia(CHOP). I grew to become a traffic security advocate because my daughter Casey was killed by a distracted driver in 2009 has partnered with the American Association for Justice(AAJ) , the nationwide trial legal professionals' association to supply distracted driving presentations with none price to center school, highschool or school students through the 2016-17 tutorial year. Through our volunteer network of speakers we've already given greater than 50 shows, since August to greater than 15,000 college students and the feedback has been very positive. We are on monitor to surpassing our objective of presenting to 100,000 students by June of 2017. To schedule a presentation in your neighborhood go to -a-presentation/
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