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ADECA

October 3, 2016
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ADECA teen safe driving events coming soon to high schools in Oxford, Shoals, Geneva and Montgomery
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MONTGOMERY— Over the next few weeks, several law enforcement agencies and related organizations will be hitting the road to talk highway safety with some of Alabama’s newest drivers.

The agencies are all taking part in #NoCrashCourse, a series of teen driver safety events organized by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. The events will take place for high school students in four areas of the state.

• 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5 at Oxford High School in Oxford

• 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 6 at Colbert County High School in Leighton

• 9:50 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 at Geneva High School in Geneva

• TBA at Saint James School in Montgomery

The events will feature speakers and exhibits to attract the students’ interest while delivering critical safe driving messages. Each school will receive a pair of impaired vision goggles for future use in either driver’s education or health classes, and students will be provided with takeaway materials including cell phone card sleeves, pledge cards and information pamphlets.

Agencies participating in the events include the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, AAA Alabama, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, local police departments and traffic-safety champions such as Alabama dirt track racer Cruz Skinner.

“It is critical that teens learn safe-driving habits during their first years behind the wheel, and our goal with #NoCrashCourse is to provide students with some safe-driving strategies to use as they grow in their experience behind the wheel,” ADECA Director Jim Byard Jr. said. “Thanks to Ford and the Governors Highway Safety Association, we are able to partner with several statewide and local law enforcement groups and other organizations to promote highway safety and present this program focused specifically on teen drivers.”

ADECA’s Law Enforcement and Traffic Safety Division is presenting the program with help from a $9,000 grant awarded by Ford Driving Skills for Life and the Governors Highway Safety Association. Back in July, Alabama was one of just five states selected by Ford and the Governors Highway Safety Association to receive a share of $70,000 in funding to support teen safe-driving activities.

In 2015 there were 35 fatalities and 3,259 injuries resulting from 24,971 crashes involving teen drivers in Alabama, according to the University of Alabama’s Center for Advanced Public Safety. ADECA’s Law Enforcement and Traffic Safety Division partners with state and local law enforcement agencies to support efforts to reduce the number of deaths and injuries on Alabama’s highways, including providing federal grant funding for overtime pay for officers and deputies to conduct extra patrols during peak travel periods.

Contact Mike Presley or Jennifer Ardis


For more information, visit:  http://www.adeca.alabama.gov/