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Parents: Family Driving Contract Important For Your Teen
Help protect your teens with a family driving contract.
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Logging On And Getting Behind-The-Wheel
Since 1997, DMV-approved DriversEd.com has been America's #1 online drivers education solution: "click" log on to enroll, "learn" start the DriversEd.com course, "drive" get your DMV certificate of completion.
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Teens Pick Up On Their Parents' Bad Driving Habits
Although they seem to be involved in listening to music, chatting with friends or gazing out the window, preteens and teens are actually keen observers-and students-of their parents' driving habits.
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Prepare Young Drivers For Safe Winter Travel
Many young drivers will venture onto the roads this winter season, some for the first time. In fact, there are almost 3 million drivers in Canada between the ages of 16 and 24.2 That's why it's important for parents to prepare teenagers and young drivers for the difficult winter months, by making sure their vehicles are properly maintained and they've been given helpful instructions and well-stocked emergency kits.
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Five Things Your Teen Must Know Before Driving
Although teens may learn the fundamentals of driving through a driver's education class, it is up to parents to steer them toward safe, practical, real-world driving habits. That's because a driving instructor may teach his/her students how to operate a car, but it is parents who really teach them how to drive.
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Safety Tips For Teen Drivers
Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death of teenagers and young adults. One National Highway Safety Administration study indicated that 16- to 24-year-old drivers accounted for 25 percent of all traffic deaths. However, parents can help their teenagers stay safe behind the wheel in a number of ways.
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towSearch Now Provides More Detailed Towing Information
towPartners today announced that it’s towing and road service provider locator tool, towSearch, has been enhanced to include more detailed information on the over 5,000 companies in it’s Gold Level network. From wrecker companies to full scale towing and recovery operations with diverse capabilities, the towSearch tool is currently averaging over 2,000 searches per month by those members of the public needing to find automotive service providers. The towSearch directory of companies is a free tool searchable by fleet managers, the general public, automotive repair facilities and anyone needing road services.
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Teen Safety On The Road
One of parents' greatest fears for their teens is safety in a motor vehicle-outranking concerns over sexual activity, alcohol consumption and drug use-according to a new Harris Interactive survey commissioned by the Chrysler Group. There are steps you can take to help keep teen drivers on the road to safety.
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Tips On Protecting Young Teen Drivers
Driving is the biggest risk teens face. Here are safety rules to help protect them. According to data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, car crashes take more young lives than all other causes--and in larger proportion than for any other driving age group. And most of the fatal crashes and serious injuries come in the very earliest months of unsupervised driving.
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Preventing Teen Driving Deaths
A recent survey conducted by The Allstate Foundation found some intriguing data about how parents protect their teens.
While parents know the No. 1 killer of teens is car crashes caused by teen drivers, the majority don't understand the main causes of these crashes or the current Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) laws.
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Keep On Driving
Age alone does not determine a person’s ability to drive safely; however certain physical changes that are a natural part of the aging process do affect one’s capacity to anticipate and react to dangerous driving situations. More than 19 million people over the age of 70 are driving in the United States. According to The National Older Drivers Research and Training Center, this age group is the fastest growing segment of the country’s population.
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What's Killing Our Teens? U.S. Survey Describes The Factors Contributing To Vehicle Crashes
From cell phones to chatty friends, teens are driving under very risky conditions that contribute to motor vehicle crashes, their No. 1 killer. According to nearly 6,000 high school students surveyed by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm, most teens recognize the hazards of drinking and driving, but there is a long list of distractions and other factors that lead to teen auto crashes.
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How to Buy a Safe Car for Your Teen Tips for Choosing a Safe Car for Your Teen Driver
So, your teen just got a driver’s license? Chances are you consider this development both a blessing and a curse. There’s a sense of freedom in no longer having to act as your son or daughter’s personal chauffer. But there is also the fear of knowing that new, young drivers are involved in more traffic accidents than other segments of the driving population.
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Helping Curb Teen Drunk Driving
A firsthand account can drive a lesson home. That's the idea behind a campaign that's sending a young man across the country to talk to students about drunk driving.
According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2005, 16,885 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes-an average of one almost every half hour.
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Elderly Drivers: Stop or Go?
Without so much as a tap on the brakes, my aunt whizzed through another stop sign. "What are you doing?" I shrieked. "That was a stop sign."
"Oh," she replied rather offhandedly, "they just put those there so you'll look before you go into an intersection."
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Young Drivers Need Winter Practice
One of the more nerve-wrecking experiences of parenthood occurs when your teenager first earns his or her license to drive. While many parts of Canada have ensured that new drivers be accompanied with a more experienced driver in the vehicle, it's important that parents take some time to share safety tips with their teenagers.
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How Old Is Too Old To Drive?
Driving has long been a family affair. Be it family road trips, the infamous "backseat driver" in the family or teaching a teen how to drive, driving is a hot topic for families. What's more, families also play an important role in encouraging safe driving practices among their older loved ones.
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Keep Your Teen Driver Safe Behind the Wheel
Parents, are you protecting your teen driver when she gets behind the wheel? Traffic crashes result in 44 percent of teen deaths, the leading cause of teen fatalities in the U.S., according to the National Safety Council. But driving and insurance experts agree: parents can play a big role in helping their teens stay safe.
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Grown-Up Advice for Young Drivers
Teens' lack of driving experience means they are at a greater risk of becoming involved in a collision or experiencing an automotive breakdown. Accordingly, there are many factors parents need to consider before their teenage children get behind the wheel. AAA offers the following tips for parents as they hand their children their first set of car keys.
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When It’s Time to Take the Keys Away
How would you react if you were sitting in the back seat, one of your parents were driving, and they became slightly confused when it came time to take an exit? Or if they brushed a curb while driving down the road?
Most people wouldn’t consider either situation alarming, but what if your loved one got lost on the way to the grocery store or some other place they had been to dozens of times before?
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Finding The Right Used Car For Your Teenager
Okay, you're thinking of buying a car for your driving- age teenager, and with the price of new cars climbing you've decided on getting one that's pre-owned. These tips will help steer you towards a used car that fits the bill without breaking your budget.
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Race Car Drivers Train Teens in Driving Safety
Teens all across the country are learning to be safer drivers, thanks to Driver's Edge, a nonprofit organization developed by professional driver Jeff Payne to address the number of youth-related automobile collisions and fatalities. The Driver's Edge staff of professional race car drivers and driving instructors will train teens in 15 U.S. cities as part of its annual National Tour.
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Keeping Teens On The Road To Safety
According to the latest information from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), teens have the highest crash risk of any drivers, at nearly four times that of drivers over 20. In fact, the IIHS says 39 percent of all deaths of 16- to 19-year- olds are caused by car accidents, making it the leading public health problem for teenagers.
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A New Look At Ways To Keep Teen Drivers Safe
Giving some thought to how teens think and feel about driving could help keep them safe. That's the conclusion of a study that examined attitudes and opinions teenagers hold about getting behind the wheel. The research was commissioned to explore reasons behind the alarming statistics about teens and motor vehicles. Every year in the U.S., nearly 6,000 teenagers are killed and another 300,000 are injured in motor vehicle crashes.
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Safety Program Gets Teens Road Ready
Parents hold the keys when it comes to their teens' driv-ing safety. In fact, research shows that when parents take an active role in their teens' driving education and set driving guidelines, they can reduce their teens' chances of being in a crash by up to one-third. According to government statistics, traffic crashes remain the No. 1 killer of teens. In 2003, teen drivers were involved in more than 1.7 million vehicle crashes, injuring nearly 400,000 teens and killing nearly 5,000. And teen traffic deaths peak in the summer, when teens spend more time on the road than they do during the school year.
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New Tool Helps Seniors Play It Safe Behind the Wheel
Americans are living longer than before. If you're over 65, you are part of the fastest-growing population in the U.S., thanks to today's advanced medicine and healthier, active lifestyles. If seniors can be found swimming, jogging and golfing, then who's to say when they become too old to get behind the wheel? By 2020, there will be more than 40 million licensed drivers age 65 and older, according to AAA. Although they are more likely to wear their seatbelts, less likely to drink and drive, and less likely to speed, senior drivers are more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash.
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New Program Helps Teen Drivers Practice Skills
Practice can make perfect. This adage holds true for sports, playing a musical instrument and especially when young people are learning how to drive. While parents cannot protect their teens from every risk they may encounter during these years, helping teens improve as drivers may help prevent the tragedy and devastation that a motor vehicle crash too often brings to a family.
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How Teens Can Become Safer Drivers
If you want to pinpoint the reason many young teens have serious crashes, it can be summed up easily-inexperience. Whether they are on their way to a party, the mall or a friend's house, teens may find themselves in driving situations they aren't equipped to handle yet.
Teenagers can become safer drivers, say officials at GEICO, by developing more experience and avoiding certain driving situations until they are better prepared to handle them.
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Lens Implant Potentially Improves Driving Safety
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved new claims for Pfizer's Tecnis, making it the first eye lens implant for cataract patients with the potential to improve the safety of older drivers with cataracts and the people with whom they share the road.
About 60 percent of people over age 65, and 70 percent of those over 75, have some degree of cataract development, a clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision. Approximately 2.5 million older people undergo cataract surgery each year in the United States.
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Savvy Seniors Take Technology On The Road
Seniors are hitting the highways in record numbers. The Travel Industry of America (TIA) reports that travelers over the age of 55 take to the road more than any other age group. They're also hitting the information super highway as the fastest growing age demographic to log onto the Internet, according to a 2004 Pew Internet study. Quickly adopting technology, three-fourths of Americans over age 54 made a consumer electronics purchase in 2003.
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Older Drivers And Safety-A Family Conversation
There are many factors that can drive a person's concern about just how safe it is for an older family member to be behind the wheel.
Although studies show that older drivers are, as a group, safe drivers, as people age, driving can become a somewhat more difficult and challenging task, especially for those with physical and cognitive health problems.
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