Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Teen Safe Driving Awareness Week
WETHERSFIELD – Connecticut’s Safe Teen Driving Awareness Week (Dec. 4-10) is an opportunity for community leaders statewide to organize their area teens around the theme of How A Community Helps to Make Teens Safe Drivers for submitting a video to DMV’s teen safe driving video contest.
DMV sponsors the annual “From the Driver’s Seat to the Director’s Chair” video contest in cooperation with The Travelers Companies, Inc.
DMV is also releasing today a new agreement (see link under RESOURCES on this website) between a teen and adult teaching them to drive. It starts a discussion for every community, every adult involved in a teen driver's training and every young driver before a teen gets behind the wheel. The Commissioner’s Advisory Committee on Teen Safe Driving completed work on it today.
Videos for the contest must illustrate a specific community effort to help prevent crashes, injuries and deaths among 16- and 17-year-olds, who are the state’s youngest and most inexperienced drivers. The deadline for submitting a video is January 13, 2012. Contest information and rules can be found at www.ct.gov/teendriving/contest.
Connecticut has annually marked its own Safe Teen Driving Awareness week in December for the last several years. It is championed by !MPACT, officially known as Mourning Parents Act, Inc., an organization of families and friends of teens who died in car crashes.
DMV sponsors the annual “From the Driver’s Seat to the Director’s Chair” video contest in cooperation with The Travelers Companies, Inc.
DMV is also releasing today a new agreement (see link under RESOURCES on this website) between a teen and adult teaching them to drive. It starts a discussion for every community, every adult involved in a teen driver's training and every young driver before a teen gets behind the wheel. The Commissioner’s Advisory Committee on Teen Safe Driving completed work on it today.Videos for the contest must illustrate a specific community effort to help prevent crashes, injuries and deaths among 16- and 17-year-olds, who are the state’s youngest and most inexperienced drivers. The deadline for submitting a video is January 13, 2012. Contest information and rules can be found at www.ct.gov/teendriving/contest.
Connecticut has annually marked its own Safe Teen Driving Awareness week in December for the last several years. It is championed by !MPACT, officially known as Mourning Parents Act, Inc., an organization of families and friends of teens who died in car crashes.
Friday, September 16, 2011
West Hartford teen starts "Buckle ur phone" campaign
The Hartford Courant reported today on an initiative by a teen and her younger brother to raise awareness around the serious consequences of texting while driving and change behavior through the sale and promotion of red thumb bands. Distracted driving is a serious issue for both adults and teens and we can use all the help we can in getting people to put their phones down when they drive.
http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-west-hartford-thumb-bands-0917-20110916,0,562985.story
http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-west-hartford-thumb-bands-0917-20110916,0,562985.story
Thursday, September 15, 2011
National Teen Driver Safety Week – October 16-22, 2011
The Young Driver Research team at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has updated the Ride Like A Friend. Drive Like You Care (RLAF) website in time for National Teen Driver Safety Week – October 16-22, 2011!
Please visit www.ridelikeafriend.org to learn how you can support teens in conducting RLAF, a peer-to-peer school-based campaign that encourages safe teen driver and passenger behavior.
Please visit www.ridelikeafriend.org to learn how you can support teens in conducting RLAF, a peer-to-peer school-based campaign that encourages safe teen driver and passenger behavior.
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