Driving Skills for Life Promotes Safer Teenage Driving

fordSkillsLast week, Ford launched its Driving Skills for Life program right here in Miami, aimed at assisting teenage drivers with improving their driving. The program is designed to reduce the alarmingly high number of driving fatalities involving teenagers. Ford plans to launch the program in fifteen additional places around the United States, addressing topics such as controlling the vehicle, evasive maneuvers to avoid pedestrians, managing speed, safe follow distance and more.

Per the Governors Highway Safety Association, teenage drivers are one more than 1.5 times more likely to be involved in a traffic accident resulting in fatalities than adult drivers. Close to 3,000 teenagers lose their lives each year because of fatal car accidents. This number could potentially be reduced if teenagers receive extensive training on proper safety and driving techniques.

Instead of avoiding the subject, Ford is also focusing on how drugs and alcohol affect teens by showing them the many dangers of impaired driving. Distracted driving is also discussed in the program as both impaired and distracted driving are among the major factors in traffic fatalities with teenagers involved. Despite efforts to address it, texting while driving remains a major problem on the Florida roadways.

Besides Florida, the Driving Skills for Life program will also be making stops in states like Georgia, California, Texas, Alabama, Illinois, and more.

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