Summer Teen Driving: NO JOYRIDES

For the past week I have been reading in the Hartford Courant, as you have in your newspaper or news source,  about one high school after another celebrating its graduation.  The school year is over.  Summer is in full swing, weatherwise (it’s 94 here in Ct today) and...

Fatigue – the Sleeper Factor in Teen Driving Crashes

Ok, that’s a bad pun in the title of this post.  Just want to get your attention. Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health in Australia, writing in the American Medical Association journal JAMA Pediatrics, report the results of a large study about teen...

A Creative Campaign to Stop Teen Driver Texting

Getting teens to stop texting involves not just warnings but creative and memorable ways to get teens focused on the problem  (that is, use social media!).  I highly recommend a new campaign prepared and promoted by the folks at Impact Teen Drivers in California,...