Teen Drivers
Driver education programs play a role in preparing teens to drive, but should not replace the importance of driving with a parent or older repsonsible driver. In order to become safe drivers, teens need opportunities to improve through gradual exposure to real life driving situations. Teens become safer drivers with more driving experience.
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Reduce Your Teens Risk
Any driver can make a costly mistake behind the wheel; however teens are the most at risk. They bring to the road a unique mix of inexperience, distraction, peer pressure and a tendency to underestimate risk.
Some of the major risk factors teenage drivers now face are:
Teen passengers
Nighttime driving
Technology (Texting/Phoning/Radio)
Speeding
Practice, Practice, Practice,
Parents need to provide plenty of opportunities for teens to gain experience behind the wheel, covering as many situations as possible.
Get rid of distractions
Due to the high distraction rate, it is suggested that you ban all cell phone use in your teen's car. Another huge risk reducer is prohibiting your teen from taking other teen passengers along for the ride.
Talk to your teen
Take time to have an open dialogue with your teen. Driving can be a stressful topic to discuss, but discussing the importance of seatbelts, proper driving position and following posted speed limits makes teens more focused on doing the right thing on the road.
Driver Safety Agreement
We want to help teens to learn to be safe and to drive safely.
Click here for our Teenage Driver Safety Agreement
Driver education programs play a role in preparing teens to drive, but should not replace the importance of driving with a parent or older repsonsible driver. In order to become safe drivers, teens need opportunities to improve through gradual exposure to real life driving situations. Teens become safer drivers with more driving experience.
Reduce Your Teens Risk
Any driver can make a costly mistake behind the wheel; however teens are the most at risk. They bring to the road a unique mix of inexperience, distraction, peer pressure and a tendency to underestimate risk.
Some of the major risk factors teenage drivers now face are:
- Teen passengers
- Nighttime driving
- Technology (Texting/Phoning/Radio)
- Speeding
Practice, Practice, Practice,
Parents need to provide plenty of opportunities for teens to gain experience behind the wheel, covering as many situations as possible.
Get rid of distractions
Due to the high distraction rate, it is suggested that you ban all cell phone use in your teen's car. Another huge risk reducer is prohibiting your teen from taking other teen passengers along for the ride.
Talk to your teen
Take time to have an open dialogue with your teen. Driving can be a stressful topic to discuss, but discussing the importance of seatbelts, proper driving position and following posted speed limits makes teens more focused on doing the right thing on the road.
Driver Safety Agreement
We want to help teens to learn to be safe and to drive safely.
Click here for our Teenage Driver Safety Agreement
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