Tampa Teens Work to Inform Distracted Drivers
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It’s a given that teen drivers are one of the hazards of the roads. The Tampa area is number one in a recent Allstate study of teen crashes. The study took a look at crash data, claims data, and teen population size in the top 50 metropolitan areas in the nation. Nationwide, car crashes are the number one killer of teens.
Today, there were around 20 local teens from area schools who took turns standing on a lifeguard stand at a busy Tampa intersection. They were looking for distracted drivers who were doing things like driving while they talked cell phones, ate, drank, and did text messaging.
A running count was logged and fed into an 8-foot message board drivers could see while they were stopped at the intersection.
I think this is a worthy exercise for the teens and I can only hope it made at least one driver out there today stop and think about their focus they were placing, or not placing , on their driving. Kudos to the kids who were doing this project. May it remain ingrained in their minds forever.
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