file photo Thanksgiving Eve Auto Crash by Boyd Loving
New Jersey promoting Teen Driver Safety Week
The state is promoting a driving orientation seminar for teenagers about to get their driver’s license and their parents as part of an awareness campaign during Teen Driver Safety Week.
The effort is geared toward battling the lead killer of young people in New Jersey: From 2008 through last year, 216 17- to 20-year-olds were killed — and more than 113,000 drivers under the age of 20 were injured — on the state’s roadways, according to the Division of Highway Traffic Safety.
“Parents have spent their entire lives trying to protect their kids, but then they hand their teens the keys to a 2-ton machine, and expect them to know what to do,” the division’s acting director, Gary Poedubicky, said in a statement. “We want to remind parents that they still have a lot to teach their teen drivers.”
To that end, the orientation, Share The Keys, is a data-driven tutorial that teaches parents and teenagers with driving permits the laws of the road, how parents can lead by example and enforcing rules such as curfews and passenger limits. The 90-minute seminar was developed by Kean University and the Division of Highway Traffic Safety. For information on how to bring the program to a local school or community, visit https://www.nj.gov/oag/hts/downloads/STK_Program_Desc.pdf. (Patberg/The Record)
When I attended RHS, they made us watch some bloody films of actual accidents with dead bodies. “Agony on the highway’ and ‘signal ##”. The shock factor worked. I always wore seatbelts there after. I believe it was in our ‘health’ class in the mid 1970’s. It should be required watching.
#1 the film was signal 30