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.
