by Tim | Nov 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
My thanks to Juliet Pennington, Diana Dias, and the folks at the AAA Club of Southern New England for their profile of this blog, “A Dad’s devotion to teen driver safety,” published in the November 2012 issue of Horizons, their newsletter, ...
by Tim | Nov 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
Before I get to today’s topic, yes I intend to get back soon to ranking the effectiveness of the various facets of Graduated Driver Laws, the AAA Foundation study of passengers, and my model curriculum for a two hour safety class for parents of teen drivers. ...
by Tim | Oct 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
The AAA Foundation has recently published several excellent and important reports on teen drivers with passengers. I will talk about their most recent piece on passengers, “Characteristics of Fatal Crashed Involving 16- and 17-Year Old Drivers with Teenage...
by Tim | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am pleased today to publish a guest post, from Attorney Richard Console of New Jersey. His post provides an excellent summary of several core vehicle-handling skills. A brief bio of this guest author appears at the end of his article. What’s Your Teen’s Driving IQ?...
by Tim | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
The October 13 edition of The New York Times contains an outstanding essay about how car crashes have affected the lives of President Obama, Mitt Romney, Vice President Biden, and several past presidents and candidates. The link is below. I absolutely love the last...
by Tim | Oct 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
As we begin National Safe Teen Driving Week, I begin a multi-part series about a unique aspect of Connecticut’s teen driver law. In 2008, the Connecticut legislature, based on recommendations from a statewide task force on which I served, transformed the...
