EndDD.org and 60forSafety/Injury Board collaborated to bring the 2012 Student Distracted Driving Awareness Initiative to almost 50,000 students across the country in April, May and June as part of the Casey Feldman Foundation/EndDD.org pilot program.
Secretary La Hood announced a comprehensive plan to build on the momentum and progress made to date to end distracted driving. The Blueprint to end distracted driving contains these steps
“This external link will open in a new window” href=”https://www.research.chop.edu” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at CHOP have been analyzing factors associated with teen crashes,
One June 8th, Amherst Attorneys Hershel Gelber & Tim O’Connell of Gelber & O’Connell spoke to students at Williamsville South High School. This was the fifth presentation given by Gelber & O’Connell as part of EndDD’s student awareness initiative and WNY was on the scene.
Most of us would agree that when we text we are taking a chance—taking a chance that something bad will happen. This video, ‘A Game Of Chance’ created by Jamie Shin & Sarah Rosenshine, puts in perspective the chances we are taking. Maybe we all need to think of texting while driving like holding a gun to our head.
Turning Adversity Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of the The National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS)
Lela Jacobson, PhD Behavioral Scientist Center for Injury Research and Prevention The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia In addition to encouraging and persuading current drivers to stop driving while distracted, another important window of opportunity to end distracted driving is to educate learner drivers so that they never begin to drive distracted.
With Distracted Driving Awareness Month wrapped up, a number of surveys and statistics are beginning to roll in from the various campaigns that took place in April. One of the more staggering figures comes from a recent survey conducted by AT&T aimed at figuring out the current impact that teens have on distracted driving cases.
As part of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, CIRP draws upon experts from the fields of emergency medicine, pediatric trauma, pediatric and adolescent development, epidemiology and biostatistics, bioengineering, computational engineering, psychology, behavioral development, communications, and health education. Of particular interest is a fact sheet on the science of crash investigation. There’s a whole lot more
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