by Tim | Mar 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Mar 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Feb 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Feb 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Tim | Jan 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
