Teen Driver Safety

The leading cause of death among teens - car accidents

Just like buying a new car, there is no Undo button.

Now let's turn our attention to the post sale side of teen car buying, the teen driver safety side. A new car in the hands of an inexperienced teen who does not understand the laws of nature is a lethal weapon. It's a very important responsibility that must be taken seriously, or people will die. It's amazing how every day we turn on the TV and hear of a couple of teens who die in a drag race, or crashed into a tree on the way home from a party, or even during lunch hour at school while partying and speeding where they should not be. Take a look at our car crash photo gallery, Download Software, maybe it will sober you up when you see what can happen when you are not a careful driver.

You would think after all these years and deaths, that our teens would have gotten the message, but there is a never ending supply of young people who think they are invincible, and that it could never happen to them. But it can happen to them, to their friends, to anyone at anytime. It happens every week at a high school somewhere.

It's heart breaking here in South Florida, that every where we go, we keep seeing all these makeshift graves setup after a few teens die in a crash. It's not just one or two here and there, they are sprinkled all over the place, in clusters of 2, 3 and 4! They place these giant lollipop signs that say "Drive Safely" all along the roadside, to indicate where people have died in wrecks. It's real gut wrenching to see them around Christmas, when the parents of those killed go decorate the lollipop signs with Christmas flowers and ornaments, and leave gifts. There are way too many of these grave sites, and we must stop this proliferation now. That is under direct control of you the young driver. There's one spot in Boca Raton where more than 8 teens have died in a few crashes because someone got careless, I think 5 of them died in one crash, and they often speed without wearing seatbelts. If only they would wear their seatbelts, they all probably would have lived.

Our state roads are becoming one big cemetery, and it's all our responsibility to prevent this cancer from growing. This responsibility is ours to impart wisdom to these young adults, but the ultimate responsibility resides with the drivers that are causing the wrecks. We must motivate these young drivers to prevent these accidents and deaths for occurring. Every time passengers get into your car, picture yourself at their funeral apologizing to their mother how it wasn't really your fault their baby is dead after getting into your car and dying in a wreck that could have been prevented, and you get to keep on living and have a normal life. Then while you are moving on and enjoying your normal life, you leave behind you a wake of devastation and family members who never heal, and whose lives now become empty with their loss.

Just think for a moment how much human effort went into bringing your young friend into this world and raising them up before you wipe it out in 1/100th of a second. Their mother labored for 9 months, planned for the baby, spent months preparing the home for the baby, spent thousands of dollars over the years to feed, change diapers, clothe the baby, raise the young child, worry over them, gave up half their life and schedule to fit around their kid's life, than it all gets wiped out in an instant. You really don't want to be responsible for that type of tragic loss.