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Youth Transportation Safety

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December 21, 2020

Teens in the Driver Seat® and General Motors continue partnership to create a campus traffic safety culture.

Health and safety of the state’s youngest road users is still of upmost importance for groups like Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) and General Motors whose partnership began in 2019. In 2018, 3,370 people were killed in a crash involving a teen driver (15 to 19), and motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause […]

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October 21, 2020

TTI’s Teens in the Driver Seat® Launches New App to Encourage Safety in Young Drivers

  Car crashes account for nearly one-third of all teen deaths in America each year. As a part of National Teen Driver Safety Week Oct. 18–24, teen advocates of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) program launched its You in the Driver Seat (YDS) smartphone app, aimed at encouraging safer […]

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October 19, 2020

College Students, Traffic Safety Professionals Attend Virtual 2020 U in the Driver Seat Symposium

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) U in the Driver Seat (UDS) education and outreach program held its virtual 2020 UDS Symposium Oct. 7–9. Now in its eighth year, the symposium raises awareness about the leading cause of death for young adults ages 18–25 — traffic crashes. This year’s theme was “recharge to save lives on our […]

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November 4, 2019

General Motors Funds Expansion of Landmark Teen Driving Safety Program to America’s Heartland

As part of National Teen Driving Safety Week, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) Program is announcing that a generous grant from General Motors (GM) will help TDS reach even more teen drivers with its safety messaging next year. These funds will support ongoing outreach efforts in Texas, where TDS was […]

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June 18, 2019

Statewide Symposium Empowers College-Aged Youth to End Preventable Car Crashes

Car crashes remain the leading cause of injury and death for young persons under the age of 25. Two of the leading causes of these crashes that involve young drivers in Texas are distracted driving and impaired driving (under the influence of alcohol or drugs). The U in the Driver Seat (UDS) peer-to- peer program […]

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April 11, 2019

Dallas Morning News publishes: As cars get better, driving gets worse

by Russell Henk “Auto design has evolved from safety belts and airbags that help us survive crashes to features like lane-departure warnings and automatic emergency braking that help us avoid them. Still, the rate of distracted driving deaths rose twice as fast as overall crash deaths in the first half of this decade, according to […]

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Why Teens in the Driver Seat Works

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Teens in the Driver Seat Celebrates It’s Impact Over the Last 15 Years

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