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May

Methuen High School Holds Distracted Driving Day

A Massachusetts community joined efforts with EndDD.org speakers Saba Hashem and President J. Michael Conley of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA) to bring the EndDD program to students in MA. Read the article on Massachusett’s State Representative, Diana DiZoglio’s site, reprinted here.

21
May

‘You Have the Power to Save Lives; You Have the Power to Take Lives’

Reprinted from LevittownNow.com: “Joel Feldman lost his 21-year-old daughter Casey several years ago when a distracted driver fiddling with his GPS struck her in Ocean City, N.J. Feldman, a lawyer and creator of EndDD.org, spoke Tuesday to Pennsbury High School students. He warned them about the dangers of distracted driving through demonstrations, facts, video and testimony from a trauma physician from St. Mary Medical Center and a Falls Township police officer [….]

15
May

Distracted driving speaker visits Salida schools

Reprinted from The Mountain News: Joel Feldman, a Pennsylvania father who lost his daughter because of distracted driving, spoke to Salida High School and Crest Academy students at a special assembly Tuesday. Crest Academy seventh-grader Tyler Brown helped bring Feldman to Salida for his presentation. Brown said that while researching a project about distracted driving, he found EndDD.org, founded by Feldman, and used some of his information for his project [….]

14
May

Joel Feldman Receives 2014 Maryland Association for Justice Civil Justice Award for Distracted Driving Awareness Campaign

Joel Feldman, EndDD.org founder, has been working tirelessly to spread the message that distracted driving is risky driving and that distracted driving crashes are 100% preventable.  His message has reached Maryland and with the help of the Maryland Association for Justice (MAJ) members, that message is being heard by teens across Maryland. Joel was recently

05
May

University of Michigan Study – 90% of Parents Drive Distracted With Children in the Car

May is Global Youth Traffic Safety Month, a month designated to bring awareness to the fact that traffic accidents are the number 1 killer of teens and to get teens involved in the solution. We at EndDD.org know that distracted driving is not just a teen issue. We ask teens, as part of our presentation,

05
May

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Distracted Driving Presentations—Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and EndDD.org

The results of analysis of surveys completed in connection with our pilot program in 2012 have been released in a CHOP Research Institute White Paper dated April 9, 2014, “Evaluation of EndDD.org’s Student Awareness Initiative: Effectiveness of a Program to Prevent Teen Distracted Driving.” […]