National High School Safe Driving Tour by Ford

by • on February 10, 2011 • in News

The Ford Motor Company Fund is investing an additional $1 million to expand the company’s comprehensive Ford Driving Skills for Life National Tour. Teens in high schools across 15 states will be taught proper driving skills via free hands-on driving clinics with professional drivers at their own high school parking lots.

The goal of the program is to reduce traffic crash fatalities involving teenage drivers, focusing on building the skills of young drivers in the areas of driver distraction, speed space management, vehicle handling and hazard recognition.

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Tougher Laws and Safety Awareness in Connecticut

by • on February 7, 2011 • in Connecticut Driving Laws

Tougher teen driving laws and training requirements, combined with a greater focus on safe driver awareness, appear to be contributing to the reduction of injury accidents and deaths in 16- and 17-year old drivers in the state of Connecticut.

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Re-Introduction Bill to Ban Cell Phones, Texting While Driving in Pennsylvania

by • on February 7, 2011 • in Pennsylvania Driving Laws

The new proposal comes one week after Pennsylvania received a failing grade for driving safety legislation from a national safe driving advocacy group. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of consumer, health, safety and insurance groups, ranked Pennsylvania as one of the seven worst performing states when it comes to the adoption of 15 overall basic laws the group believes are essential to reducing deaths and injuries on the nation’s highways and reducing health care and other cost.

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Move Over Laws Implemented by Majority of States

by • on January 31, 2011 • in Virginia Driving Laws

Move over laws:

Nearly every state (49 states) has a law that requires drivers to slow down and, if safe, “move over” when passing an emergency vehicle that is actively working on a roadway. Virginia improved its law in 2010 to include tow trucks and other road service vehicles, increasing the number of states with these more comprehensive laws to 39. AAA will continue to promote these laws that have been shown to improve safety for police, tow truck operators, and others who work on our roadways.

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New Oklahoma Traffic Law

by • on January 29, 2011 • in Oklahoma Driving Laws

A new Oklahoma traffic regulation which went into effect in November has caught the minds of people. Presently, if you drive on Highway 75 in Oklahoma – just the way you always have – you might be breaking the law and don’t even know it.

On November first 2010 Oklahoma state law “11-3-0-9″ went into effect. It states that on a four lane highway drivers are no longer allowed to disrupt the normal flow of traffic by driving in the left-hand lane. Motorists must now drive in the right lane, and only use the left lane for passing. With one exception. If you see an emergency vehicle on the shoulder, you need to pull to the left lane and slow down until you pass it. According to the O.H.P the new law was enacted to clear the way for first responders during an emergency and cut down on the number of road rage incidents among drivers.

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New Federal Helmet Law Proposals In Oklahoma

by • on January 29, 2011 • in Oklahoma Driving Laws

The NTSB has proposed a new regulation mandating that everyone riding a motorcycle in the United States wear a helmet. Proposal due, in part, to an increase in motorcycle deaths in the past decade despite an overall drop in traffic accidents. Accident statistics show that riders are much more likely to survive an accident while wearing a helmet than those who do not.

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Side-Impact Airbags Not the Only Factor in Crash Protection

by • on January 18, 2011 • in News

A study just released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that the overall crash rating of a vehicle for side impacts have a significant effect on survivability during a driver-side crash. It’s not just whether a vehicle has side-impact airbags that matters, but the overall rating based upon the institute’s crash tests. Other factors such as strong side support structures influence the overall safety of the vehicle.

The study includes only passenger vehicles with side airbags, demonstrating that airbags, while crucial, are far from the whole story in side crash protection.

So don’t forget to consult the IIHS’s ratings before buying a vehicle.

The report can be found here.

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New Teen Driving Laws in Louisiana

by • on January 16, 2011 • in Louisana Driving Laws

New safer laws for 2011.

New laws mandate that all new drivers must have a signed note attesting to the fact they’ve had 50 hours of driving experience — 15 of them at nighttime — before they’re allowed to even take the test to get a drivers license. Also, until drivers turn 17, they’re not allowed to have more than one passenger in their car after 6 p.m.

Then from 11 p.m.– 5 a.m., drivers younger than 17 years old must have an adult who is at least 21 or a sibling who is at least 18 in the passenger seat before they start their engines.

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Michigan’s New Driving Restrictions for Teenagers

by • on January 16, 2011 • in Michigan Driving Laws

New restrictions will keep all 16 and some 17 year olds in their first year of independent driving off the road between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The exception is if they’re headed to work or school. H.B. 4493

Byron Major, the Owner of Major Driving School, comments:

After a certain time of night, if you have teenagers in the car the crash rates go up really quickly, so if they have a curfew, a little bit earlier, lets say 10 p.m., that will hopefully cut down on accidents

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Tennessee Enacts Tough DUI Laws

by • on January 11, 2011 • in Tennessee Driving Laws

As of the new year several new tough drunk driving laws take effect in Tennessee. DUI offenders with a blood alcohol content of 0.15 or higher are now required to prove they haven’t been drinking before they’re allowed to drive. A breathalyzer installed in the offenders car takes care of that by preventing the ignition from starting until they can blow a clear breath. Cost to lease a breathalyzer is about $60 per month.

Another new law can force a DUI offender with a suspended license to install a breathalyzer in their car in order to get a restricted license, one that is limited to work or school driving.

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