Apr 19, 2013
This past weekend I attended the Lifesavers Conference, the annual meeting of the national traffic safety community. My next few posts will report on a variety of things I learned there (in Denver, in the snow). There have been some studies and reports about teens... read more
Apr 10, 2013
Sometimes blogging is easy. Friends in the traffic safety community send me stuff that is so amazing it speaks for itself. The video linked below is the work of students at Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford, Connecticut. Thanks to Kevin Borrup at Connecticut... read more
Mar 28, 2013
Along with its recent report on the increase in the first six months of 2012 in 16 and 17 year old driver fatalities, the Governor’s Highway Safety Administration has updated its national survey of the minimum age in state laws for a teen to obtain a... read more
Mar 15, 2013
As many of you have likely heard, during the past weekend, 15 teens died in three crashes, six in Ohio, five in Texas, and four in Illinois. Each crash involved a teen driver at the wheel and multiple passengers. In two of the three crashes, as I understand it, the... read more
Mar 12, 2013
Traffic and pedestrian safety is as local as making sure we can walk safely to our town centers, our schools, our neighbors’ front yards, our places of worship. But it is also a global public safety crisis. In the next sixty days, we all have an opportunity to... read more
Mar 8, 2013
The Governors’ Highway Safety Administration has issued a new report, New Study: Teen Driver Deaths Increase in 2012 (Feb. 26, 2013), based on preliminary fatality statistics for 2012, and the key finding should send a big shiver up our collective national... read more
Feb 21, 2013
It’s that time of year again – the results of Connecticut’s statewide safe teen driving video contest for high school students has been announced by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Our governor and 26 judges selected the finalists, and Travelers... read more
Feb 15, 2013
In 2008, Connecticut overhauled its teen driver laws, transforming them from one of the most lenient in the nation to one of the strictest. One of the thoroughly debated provisions was newly-licensed drivers carrying passengers. Before 2008, licensed teens could... read more
Feb 12, 2013
For as long as I have been involved with safer teen driving, one statistic has continued to bother me. In 2007, four Connecticut teens (a 19 year old driver and three 16 and 17 year old passengers) died in a crash in which the police estimated the car’s speed,... read more
Jan 28, 2013
In my “day job” (as an attorney), I work occasionally with the president of an engineering firm, a man in his sixties, who got his engineering degree in the early 1970’s – before the days of computers, and when calculators were clunky machines... read more
