Parents believe that the key to safe driving
Well, because the painful issue of transport in adolescence deaths is back in the news, Phil Berardelli wants mothers and fathers, clearly on hand:
“Parents would never say that a child who wants to play the piano,” I’ll buy six hours, then give a concert. “She would never tell a child wants to play football,” I’m going to six practices and you’re ready for business. “… These activities require an investment of time and money.”
But even if the child wants to lead - “The most dangerous of what he or she can do that in an ordinary life,” says Berardelli - much of the reaction of parents is totally different:
“Take six hours of driver training. And here are the keys to the car. ”
Six hours behind the wheel of professionals is necessary for the instruction of Maryland 16 years to test for a driving licence (this number has doubled in Virginia, the District, it is not necessary driver’s course).
Six years ago, Todd Waymon Silver Spring dumbfoundingly learned the futility of such training may be limited. His son, Matthew, 16, Matt Williams’s Irn classmates, 16, and John Francis value of 40 years, father of three, were killed, that the teenage driver speeding Subaru Outback, that young people were in a lost control of riding, Blendend value Pickup.
Six years later, sometimes Waymon is projected in Matt’s old pals - all young men now. “They move along the right,” Waymon said wonderingly. As for Matthew: “I guess, what it would be 22 now,” he says in a voice so tortured that listening feels intrusive .
Some things, a mother or father is never finished, that parents of more than 7000 young people in USA, die each year in car accidents learn. Since September, accidents young drivers killed 17 people in the area of Washington, stressed the limited effectiveness of current systems - including driver training courses - for the reduction of deaths.
These deaths could “news”, but they are not new. In 1994, Berardelli now an editor at United Press International, wrote that articles free insistence of parents, a “hands-on” approach to education by a drunk driver girls Bethesda, 16, killing himself and a friend and two seriously injured when she collapsed pals just bought-BMW. Shortly thereafter, he wrote the manual “Safe Young Drivers: A Guide for Parents and Teens” (for more information, see www . safeyoungdrivers.com).
Ten years later, the dead teenagers driving transport are increasing, not slide. Within 20 months, that the USA was at war in Iraq, said Berardelli, 1259 Americans died in the conflict. “During the same period were 10 times more young people - more than 11000 - have died violently on our highways.”
Preventing youth many car accidents are two things Berardelli said. One thing is for states to increase the minimum age for teens can obtain permits and licenses. Maryland youth of 15 years, 9 months, students can obtain a permit, they can VA boy 15 1 / 2 In the district, the minimum age for approval to 16 years. Experts say all ages under 16 is too young
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