Distracted Driving Awareness Month Archives

02
Apr

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month – Learn What you Can Do

by Joel Feldman | Distracted Driving Updates

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, a united nationwide effort to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving and eliminate preventable deaths and injuries on our roadways. Accordingly to the latest statistics released by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), over 37,000 people were killed on our highways in 2016, an increase of 5.6% from 2015. Here is what you can do [ ….]

26
Mar

EndDD.org Prepares for April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month – This Year is Different

by Joel Feldman | Distracted Driving Updates, EndDD Featured Articles, EndDD in the News

Before July 17, 2009 I had never heard of Distracted Driving Awareness Month. For that matter, even though I am a lawyer who has represented hundreds of families in distracted driving cases over the years, I regularly drove distracted. What changed on July 17, 2009? My 21-year old daughter Casey was killed by a distracted

13
Apr

You Don’t Have to Drive Like Your Mom and Dad

by End Distracted Driving | EndDD in the News

Joel Feldman, spoke with 300 juniors at Great Valley High School in Malvern, PA on April 9th in connection with April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month campaign. He made it clear to the students that he believed that distracted driving is not just a teen problem.

01
Apr

April, Distracted Driving Awareness Month – Hands Free is Not Risk Free NSC Infograph

by Dianne Anderson | Distracted Driving Updates

Think you are safe if you are not holding your phone while driving but are having a hands-free conversation? Safety experts call it the hands-free myth. A recent National Safety Council (NSC) poll shows that 80% of U.S. drivers believe hands-free cell phones are safer than using handheld. However, over 30 scientific studies have shown

19
May

GTLA Announces Year-Round Partnership with EndDD.org to Kick Off National Distracted Driving Awareness Month

by Dianne Anderson | EndDD in the News

The Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, with 2,000 members, announces year-round partnership with EndDD.org to kick off National Distracted Driving Awareness Month in GA [….]

02
Apr

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month

by Joel Feldman | Distracted Driving, Distracted Driving Updates

April promises to be a very busy month for EndDD.org. We will be releasing the results from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia study on our 2012 EndDD.org presentation. We were able to change some attitudes and behaviors but need to do more […]

19
Apr

Marking Distracted Driving Awareness Month – IN DE AND PA, EndDD.ORG BUILDS SUPPORT

by Dianne Anderson | EndDD in the News

With a Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General and state lawmakers joining the cause, EndDD.org reached out to drivers and their passengers in Delaware and Pennsylvania, especially teenagers, with an urgent and life-saving warning to change their driving habits and stop driving distracted.

10
Apr

Distracted Driving Awareness Month guest contributor Joel Feldman: Celebrating my daughter’s 25th birthday

by End Distracted Driving | Distracted Driving Updates, EndDD Featured Articles, EndDD in the News

“This past weekend, on April 6, we celebrated my daughter Casey’s 25th birthday. But Casey wasn’t there. She was killed in 2009 by a distracted driver, a 58-year-old man behind the wheel of a van. He took his eyes off the road for just a few seconds. Pink was Casey’s favorite color, so we released pink balloons in her memory….” Read the post of Casey’s father, Joel Feldman, founder of EndDD.org on the U.S. DOT site.

04
Apr

Distracted Driving Awareness Month – A Look Backward Over The Last Year – 75,000 Teens and Counting

by Joel Feldman | Distracted Driving, EndDD Featured Articles

By Joel Feldman: April is National Distracted Driving Awareness month and I will be participating in events next week as Pennsylvania and Delaware join other states in announcing the adoption of distracted driving awareness initiatives for April. I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to personally speak with more than 10,000 teens and adults over the last year as part of The Casey Feldman Foundation’s EndDD.org program.

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