by Tim | Apr 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today, another interesting topic from the recent Lifesavers Conference. Presenter Pam Fischer, who has been active in safe teen driving in New Jersey and nationally for 30 years, presented a chart that compared the top five things that, according to surveys, parents...
by Tim | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Another nugget of wisdom from the Lifesavers Conference: The dangers of teen drivers having passengers, especially other teens or siblings, are well documented. For teen drivers, any passenger who is not a supervising adult driver is a potential distraction, and the...
by Tim | Apr 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Mar 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
