How to be a Safe Driver

Safe Driving BACKGROUND AND STATISTICS Driving is an essential part of American life. Driving a private vehicle provides a freedom of mobility that allows for changes in plans and routine. Driving can be fun or hectic, business-related or recreational. But most importantly driving CAN BE, and every year IS, fatal for almost 50,000 Americans. Nationally there are approximately 18.1 auto-related deaths per 100,000 people for all ages; but when these figures are broken down into age groups one …

…the state to suspend the license until the teenager is 18. (In many states the parent must sign for a teenager under 18 to obtain a driver's license. At any time before the 18th birthday a parent can refuse responsibility and the state will take the license.) The inconvenience of a few months of extra training is little to give up in the face of a possible ruined life or no life at all. SAFE DRIVING ROCKS!!!!!!!