American Traffic Solutions and Driving MBA team up to promote safe driving practices

American Traffic Solutions and DrivingMBA – two organizations dedicated to driver safety – have combined their resources to provide high schools with driver education materials that speak directly to teen drivers about intersection safety and the dangerous consequences of red-light running.

Red-light running collisions pose the greatest risk of injury and death for motorists, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Ten percent of red-light runners involved in fatal crashes in 2009 were teenagers.

Additionally, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that mile for mile, teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers.

With the help of DrivingMBA, a driver-training and education provider, ATS has made handouts and a PowerPoint presentation freely available to high schools. The intent is to provide assistance in informing and training young drivers in safe driving habits.

See the links below to view the driver education presentation, an informational flier and useful videos.

Please provide video credit to: American Traffic Solutions, Inc. www.roadsafetycameras.com and DrivingMBA www.drivingmba.com.

Teen Facts

• The crash risks for teenage drivers increases exponentially with each additional passenger in a vehicle. With three or more passengers, the crash risk for teenage drivers is about four times greater than when driving alone.
  (Journal of Safety Research – "Teenage drivers: patterns of risk")

• In the United States, 63.5% of the people killed in teen-driver crashes are people other than the teen driver; in Arizona, the number increases to 74.5%. (AAA – Teen crashes – Everyone is at risk)

• Traffic collisions are the No. 1 killer of teens in the United States. On average, 11 teens die each day in preventable crashes. (IIHS)

• One in three Americans knows someone who has been injured or killed in a red-light running crash. (FHWA)

• Mile for mile, teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers. (IIHS)

• More than 5,000 young people, ages 16-20, are killed on U.S. roadways
  each year. (IIHS)

• During the summer months of May through August, nearly twice as many teens (16) die on the road each day compared with the rest of the year, when nearly nine die each day. (NHTSA)