The EndDD.org presentation was taken to teens in Nevada this past week with a training session also for Nevada volunteer speakers who will continue to spread the effort throughout the state. Joel Feldman, founder of EndDD.org and father of Casey Feldman, who was killed by a distracted driver in 2009, spearheaded the effort, talking to
… I went on to Fordham University, where I made a great friend named Casey. This is the moment where I showed the students a slide with photos of Casey and myself throughout our time together, as well as two Facebook wall posts from Casey. In this moment, the audience realized my direct connection to this cause and the root of my passion for this issue.
Joel Feldman holds a picture of his daughter, Casey, while he discusses the dangers of distracted driving during a driver education class at Longmont High School in CO.
“I wasn’t texting, I wasn’t using my cell phone, but I still killed someone”, says 17 year old Kate McGuire in the new PSA video produced by Casey’s father, Joel Feldman, now incorporated into the EndDD distracted driving presentation. This is one of the first distracted driving videos which features both the driver and the victim’s family. Kate, a senior in high school, describes how her selfish act killed a 61 year old man who was about to become a grandfather for the first time. Emily, the daughter of the man who was killed talks about how this senseless and preventable crash has affected her and her family.
New York state teens are hearing the EndDD message
The EndDD campaign has been taken to Massachusetts and kicked off at the State Capital in a press conference
From opposite ends of the country, 21-year-old Casey Feldman and 18-year-old Kassy Kerfoot would never know their Moms would meet in Idaho to become allies in a life-saving campaign.
In the most recent edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association , Jeffrey Coben, M.D., and co-author Motao Zhu, M.D., PhD argue in a Viewpoint submission that automobile manufacturers must be required by the federal government to design vehicles so that hand-held devices are rendered inoperable when the vehicle is in motion. The
In the largest study of its kind to date, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report last month revealing that 4.2% of drivers reported falling asleep at the wheel within the previous 30 days.
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