by Tim | Jul 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Those of you with sharp powers of observation may have noticed an addition last week to the landing page of this blog: the announcement of the publication of my new book, Not So Fast: Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving. As detailed on our new website,...
by Tim | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
On the heels of my post about how the National Safety Council has done us all a great service by collecting and publishing national news stories about teen driver crashes, they have published an infographic that aptly summarizes the statistics that document teen...
by Tim | Jul 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the past few days I have seen two news reports that individually and together demonstrate our law enforcement system getting tougher with teens who text while driving. The first story involved a 20 year old in Wisconsin who left work to drive home around...
by Tim | Jul 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of the themes I have tried to develop on this blog is how the national public safety crisis of teen driver crashes, fatalities, and injuries is largely hidden from our view, for two reasons: crashes are so common that they are almost always reported as local news...
by Tim | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
For the past week I have been reading in the Hartford Courant, as you have in your newspaper or news source, about one high school after another celebrating its graduation. The school year is over. Summer is in full swing, weatherwise (it’s 94 here in Ct today) and...
by Tim | Jun 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
The AAA Foundation has released a new report about distracted driving, one that measures the relative distraction of hand held vs. hands free electronic devices in cars. The study can be found at...
