Other Resources
Please visit these sites to find more useful information for teen drivers and their parents.
Licensing and Insurance Information
Car Insurance
A site dedicated to understanding automobile insurance.
Graduated Licensing
Know the laws in your state.
State Farm Young Driver Information
Information about adding a teen or young driver to your insurance policy.
Driver Safety Education and Stats
AAA Texas: Teen Drivers – Keys2Drive
Teen and parent information, including quizzes, articles and a parent-teen agreement. Information may be customized by state.
The ART of Driving
A two-fold site designed to increase awareness among teenagers of the risks involved in being a young driver and to advocate for improvement in youth driver education courses.
Edmunds.com: Driver Safety Series
A series of articles detailing the risks and statistics associated with teen driving and tips for improving safety.
Ladies Home Journal – Teen Driving: a Parents’ Guide
This site contains statistics and tips to help parents keep their teens safe and steps to take before buying a new vehicle for your teen.
Leland-West Insurance Brokers
A page full of car safety links.
NHTSA – Teen Drivers
A resource for parents and teens including articles on teen driving dangers and graduated driver licensing.
NHTSA – Data Resources
Get the latest reports with data.
The Safe Driver
Always a fun and interesting spin on driving topics.
TeenDriving.com
This site contains useful facts and tips to help teens be safer drivers under different situations.
Texas Department of Insurance – Free Safety and Health Publications
Driving in the Rain (Take-5 for Safety) [pdf]
Teen Safe Driving - Georgia Department of Transportation
The Georgia Department of Transportation in collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, Georgia Department of Driver Services and Riverdale High School Technology Team has put together helpful information and resources to promote driving safety among teenagers. The goal is to educate teen drivers about the importance of following all traffic laws and safety standards when traveling on Georgia’s highway system.
Texas Department of Transportation
Public safety education page.
Texas Education Agency: Driver Training and Education
World Health Organization: Road Traffic Injuries
The World Health Organization (WHO), the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations’ system, works with partners—governmental and nongovernmental—around the world to raise the profile of the preventability of road traffic injuries.
Distracted Driving
AT&T “It Can Wait”
AT&T has launched a messaging campaign along with a powerful mini-documentary to educate consumers about using cell phones while driving. Find resources, a texting & driving IQ quiz and pledge forms.
Consumer Reports
A guide to distracted driving & teen safety.
Distracted Driving
The Official US Government Website for Distracted Driving.
Drowsy Driving
Drowsy Driving
National Sleep Foundation site dedicated to public awareness of driving while tired.
National Sleep Foundation (NSF)
Alerting the public, healthcare providers and policymakers to the life-and-death importance of adequate sleep is central to the mission of NSF. NSF is involved in public education and awareness initiatives including drowsy driving prevention.
Speeding
Keep Kids Alive Drive 25
A non-profit organization founded in the summer of 1998, Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 is a safety campaign targeting observance of the residential speed limit.
Safety Belts
Click it or Ticket
Texas schools can order a free display kit for their school.
Driving Under the Influence – Drinking and Drugs
Chronicles of a Teen Killer
Video from Houston-Galveston Area Council. A team of high school students from all over the Houston area was assembled by Texas Pictures to help create this powerful, graphic documentary that targets teens as the audience. The video is available on DVD to educators. Contact HGAC at 713-627-3200.
2young2drink
Website developed by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Includes ducational materials, posters and more.
Apps and Services
AT&T DriveMode
App for Blackberry. Allows you to temporarily limit the features of your mobile device so you stay focused on the road. Set up auto-replies to texts, emails and phone calls to let people know you’re on the road and will get back to them.
ZoomSafer
This company offers a service which prevents teens from texting while driving.
Texting while driving PSA Videos
AASHTO – Teen Texting While Driving Message
Don’t Text and Drive – WARNING: this video is very graphic. It depicts three teen girls driving into oncoming traffic and shows in detail what could happen inside a car during an accident of this type.
Bus Driver Crash – a camera inside the bus shows how distractions can result in less reaction time. WARNING: language has not been edited.
Grant and Scholarship Opportunities
Bank of America: Student Leaders
Learn how to be a Bank of America Student Leader. Selected students participate in an eight-week paid internship and a week-long Student Leadership Summit to gain valuable civic, social and business leadership skills.
