No Good Reason – Powerful Video

No post, selfie, text, or photo is worth the life of yourself or others. Distracted driving is wrong and YOU can make our streets safer – don’t text and drive. #ITCANWAIT

Join the It Can Wait community by taking the pledge to keep your eyes on the road, not your phone: http://bit.ly/PledgeToWait

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#PutDownthePhone – Canada Distracted Driving Video

https://youtu.be/Pcc3VG1TeaU

It Happens Fast

As a young man, Andrew, drives, (“tweet-tweet”), he’s distracted by a text message from his cellphone on the passenger seat. Hesitant, he picks it up to check and is crashed into by another car; popping up with a neck-tube feeder in a hospital room. His blank expression affirms brain damage.

Andrew sits motionless in a wheelchair …

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Best and Worst States for Teen Drivers

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To identify the best and worst states for teen drivers, CarInsurance.com analyzed these five teen-driving metrics:

  • Number of teen driver fatalities per 100,000 population
  • Effectiveness of Graduated driving license (GDL) components
  • Teen drinking and driving rates
  • Teen emailing/texting and driving rates
  • Average annual insurance costs for teen drivers, which is a reflection of the risk level for this driving group

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Don’t Let An Emoji Wreck Your Life

https://youtu.be/jKErdr0sd_0

Don’t let an emoji wreck your life. If you’re texting, you’re not driving.

The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s mission is to save lives on the nation’s highways.…

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Many Cars have Poorly Rated Headlights

iahhThe Toyota Prius v is the only midsize car out of 31 evaluated to earn a good rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s first-ever headlight ratings.

The best available headlights on 11 cars earn an acceptable rating, while nine only reach a marginal rating. Ten of the vehicles can’t be purchased with anything other than poor-rated headlights.

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