Thirty-five years after a grieving mother started one of the most influential and effective grassroots movements in history, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) announces its new National President, Colleen Sheehey-Church, the first victim of drugged driving to serve as MADD’s National President, effective January 1, 2015. Sheehey-Church joined MADD in 2005, a year after her 18-year-old son, Dustin, drowned …
MADD Celebrates 35th Anniversary – “No More Victims” – Adding Drugged Driving to Mission
March 13, 2015
Your Teen Magazine for Parents – Parental Anxiety about Teen Driving
March 13, 2015
New series from Your Teen Magazine for Parents contributors addresses the harrowing and sometimes humorous anxiety that parents experience when their first teenaged child takes to the road in the family car – with a salvo of ideas to stave off nervous breakdowns included.
Although just about every parent can remember with fondness their first drive behind the wheel of …
Consumer Reports’ Top 2015 Car Picks
March 13, 2015
In its annual Top Picks list, Consumer Reports has crowned four new vehicles—the Buick Regal, Chevrolet Impala, Subaru Legacy, and Toyota Highlander—with the top honor in each of their respective categories. Domestic automakers picked up two new spots.
Consumer Reports’ Top Picks are the best all-around models in their categories; they are chosen from 270 vehicles the organization has recently …
The Geico Philanthropic Foundation’s Grant Awarded To The Dori Slosberg Foundation
September 21, 2014
The Dori Slosberg Foundation has been awarded a grant for safe driving programs from The Geico Philanthropic Foundation to continue their mission to create safer drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.
This grant will be used to advance safe teen driving programs and driver education related events across the state of Florida along with many community events. Such programs include the “In …
Gender differences of young drivers on injury severity outcome of highway crashes
August 30, 2014
A research paper in the Journal of Safety Reasearch has found that gender is linked to the type of severe or fatal crash a young driver will be involved in.
The study, led by Sunanda Dissanayake, Ph.D. and Niranga Amarasingha, Ph.D. of Kansas State University was based on the evaluation of information collected from the state transportation department’s crash database …