NHTSA MATERIALS
NHTSA offers materials for numerous traffic safety campaigns, including drunk driving, car seats, vehicle safety, distracted driving, and motorcycles. These marketing tools offer a way to get involved through traditional media and online media.
We encourage local, state, and national traffic safety advocates to download and use these traffic safety materials in your community throughout the year and during campaigns. These resources are also available for parents, teachers, caregivers, and anyone who wants to make a difference in their community. Assets for various campaigns are available for use in donated and paid media.
Utilizing the numerous resources found here can make an impact that will reach beyond your community. By raising public awareness through paid, earned, and social media, and maximizing your local resources, you can make a difference and save lives.
NHTSA offers materials for numerous traffic safety campaigns, including drunk driving, car seats, vehicle safety, distracted driving, and motorcycles. These marketing tools offer a way to get involved through traditional media and online media.
We encourage local, state, and national traffic safety advocates to download and use these traffic safety materials in your community throughout the year and during campaigns. These resources are also available for parents, teachers, caregivers, and anyone who wants to make a difference in their community. Assets for various campaigns are available for use in donated and paid media.
Utilizing the numerous resources found here can make an impact that will reach beyond your community. By raising public awareness through paid, earned, and social media, and maximizing your local resources, you can make a difference and save lives.
Programs and Grants
MEMBERS -
Important Reading and Viewing of the S.T.A.N.D.U.P. Act.
The Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection Act (also called the STANDUP Act) was introduced in the U.S. Senate on March 9, 2011 by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Check out her website noted below and also the YouTube recording of the Gillibrand proceedings above.
http://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/gillibrand-announces-final-congressional-passage-of-national-teen-driving-safety-plan.
We need to recruit Senator Gillibrand and provide her with data that we have regarding how well the students in our programs perform so that she sees both sides of this problem. We appreciate her standing up and speaking out about safe driving for teenagers and need to provide her with more information and insight about our programs throughout the state.
We need to recruit Senator Gillibrand and provide her with data that we have regarding how well the students in our programs perform so that she sees both sides of this problem. We appreciate her standing up and speaking out about safe driving for teenagers and need to provide her with more information and insight about our programs throughout the state.
Legislative Report
Al Vigna and John Graham, members of our New York State Driver Traffic Safety Education Association's Legislative Committee testified at a New York Senate hearing on distracted driving Feb. 13, 2012. A live stream was available by Senator Fuschillio's web site. Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_gWVTUGhhM&feature=player_embedded#!
NYSDTSEA had a ten minute window of time to make points and recommendations regarding how driver education programs might help combat the distracted driving problem. We hope to team with the Senator's office to take steps to curb the growing practice of PED use ( portable electronic devices) on our nations roads.
In December, the NTSB called for a nationwide ban on driver use of portable electronic devices. Christopher Hart, vice chairman of the NTSB , spoke talk about these proposals.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 5,400 people were killed and an estimated 448,000 were injured nationwide in crashes involving distracted driving in 2009.
Others testifying at the hearing included State Police, Superintendent Joseph D'Amico, Motor Vehicles Commissioner Barbara Fiala, and representatives of AAA, Auto Alliance and Toyota.
Spread the Word
New YORK, Jan 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- Two national traffic safety education organizations are inviting teens to help spread the word about the dangers of distracted driving with a contest to find the best youth-generated public service messages for radio.
Entries open Feb. 2 for the second annual JST DRV Radio PSA Contest, sponsored by The National Road Safety Foundation and NSSP, the National Student Safety Program of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association (ADTSEA).
Young people ages 14 -- 18 are invited to submit a radio PSA that talks to teens about the risks of distracted driving. The winner will receive a $1,000 and an expenses-paid trip to Wisconsin to participate in the NSSP national youth conference in mid-July. The winning PSA will also be broadcast nationally on the air and online. Three runners-up will each receive a $500 prize.
"Traffic crashes are the number one cause of death among U.S. teens, with 5,000 young people killed annually and thousands more injured," said Michelle Anderson of The National Road Safety Foundation. "The U.S. Secretary of Transportation has called distracted driving a national epidemic, and this contest will encourage young people to communicate important messages about the issue to peers in their own voice."
"As today's technology enables young people to be constantly connected with friends, distracted driving is a major problem that is growing in scope exponentially," said Jan Meeker, of the Hawaii Dept. of Education and NSSP Liaison to ADTSEA. "A quarter of all teens admit to texting behind the wheel and the highest proportion of distracted drivers in fatal crashes was under the age of 20."
Last year's winner, Avneet Singh, a ninth-grader from Clinton, Mississippi, submitted a radio PSA that begins with the sound of a car engine starting, followed by the sound of fingers texting on a cell phone. We hear the engine revving, and then tires squealing and a crash. The voiceover says, "Texting is a leading cause of teenage deaths. Dying to text is no LOL (laughing out loud) matter."
Entries should be recorded and must be 15 or 30 seconds in length. Entries must include a wmv file or a live link, and should be mailed by April 30 to National Road Safety Foundation JST DRV Contest, 18 East 50th St., New York, NY 10022. They can also be emailed to [email protected].
The JST DRV Radio PSA Contest is organized by The National Road Safety Foundation, Inc., which produces traffic safety education programs that it distributes free to schools, police and others, and the National Student Safety Program, the youth arm of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association.
Visit www.jstdrv.orgor www.adtsea.org/nssp/ for contest rules. Entry deadline is April 30, 2012.
Contact: David Reich [email protected] 212 573-6000
SOURCE:The National Road Safety Foundation. The information on this page is provided by PR Newswire. All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution of this content without prior written consent from PR Newswire is strictly prohibited. Learn more about this service.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_gWVTUGhhM&feature=player_embedded#!
NYSDTSEA had a ten minute window of time to make points and recommendations regarding how driver education programs might help combat the distracted driving problem. We hope to team with the Senator's office to take steps to curb the growing practice of PED use ( portable electronic devices) on our nations roads.
In December, the NTSB called for a nationwide ban on driver use of portable electronic devices. Christopher Hart, vice chairman of the NTSB , spoke talk about these proposals.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 5,400 people were killed and an estimated 448,000 were injured nationwide in crashes involving distracted driving in 2009.
Others testifying at the hearing included State Police, Superintendent Joseph D'Amico, Motor Vehicles Commissioner Barbara Fiala, and representatives of AAA, Auto Alliance and Toyota.
Spread the Word
New YORK, Jan 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- Two national traffic safety education organizations are inviting teens to help spread the word about the dangers of distracted driving with a contest to find the best youth-generated public service messages for radio.
Entries open Feb. 2 for the second annual JST DRV Radio PSA Contest, sponsored by The National Road Safety Foundation and NSSP, the National Student Safety Program of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association (ADTSEA).
Young people ages 14 -- 18 are invited to submit a radio PSA that talks to teens about the risks of distracted driving. The winner will receive a $1,000 and an expenses-paid trip to Wisconsin to participate in the NSSP national youth conference in mid-July. The winning PSA will also be broadcast nationally on the air and online. Three runners-up will each receive a $500 prize.
"Traffic crashes are the number one cause of death among U.S. teens, with 5,000 young people killed annually and thousands more injured," said Michelle Anderson of The National Road Safety Foundation. "The U.S. Secretary of Transportation has called distracted driving a national epidemic, and this contest will encourage young people to communicate important messages about the issue to peers in their own voice."
"As today's technology enables young people to be constantly connected with friends, distracted driving is a major problem that is growing in scope exponentially," said Jan Meeker, of the Hawaii Dept. of Education and NSSP Liaison to ADTSEA. "A quarter of all teens admit to texting behind the wheel and the highest proportion of distracted drivers in fatal crashes was under the age of 20."
Last year's winner, Avneet Singh, a ninth-grader from Clinton, Mississippi, submitted a radio PSA that begins with the sound of a car engine starting, followed by the sound of fingers texting on a cell phone. We hear the engine revving, and then tires squealing and a crash. The voiceover says, "Texting is a leading cause of teenage deaths. Dying to text is no LOL (laughing out loud) matter."
Entries should be recorded and must be 15 or 30 seconds in length. Entries must include a wmv file or a live link, and should be mailed by April 30 to National Road Safety Foundation JST DRV Contest, 18 East 50th St., New York, NY 10022. They can also be emailed to [email protected].
The JST DRV Radio PSA Contest is organized by The National Road Safety Foundation, Inc., which produces traffic safety education programs that it distributes free to schools, police and others, and the National Student Safety Program, the youth arm of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association.
Visit www.jstdrv.orgor www.adtsea.org/nssp/ for contest rules. Entry deadline is April 30, 2012.
Contact: David Reich [email protected] 212 573-6000
SOURCE:The National Road Safety Foundation. The information on this page is provided by PR Newswire. All rights reserved. Reproduction or redistribution of this content without prior written consent from PR Newswire is strictly prohibited. Learn more about this service.