National Teen Driver Safety Week is October 17-23 this year. We encourage you to be part of the change and join other teens, parents and traffic safety advocates across the country in a national dialogue. Be the best kind of influencer – the kind that could save lives. Get the facts and use them to […]
Teens Take Home Top Honors in 14th Annual Driving the Message Contest
Recognizing Student Excellence in Advocating Teen Driver Safety Car crashes are a leading cause of death for teens 15 to 18 years old in the United States, second only to teen suicide. Teen drivers are at a higher risk of being in a car crash due to driver inexperience. That lack of expertise, coupled with […]
LISTEN: TTI Thinking Transportation Episode 6. Featuring YTS Program Manager, Russell Henk
Episode 6. May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor. Celebrating 20 years of improved young driver safety.FEATURING: Russell Henk Car crashes have long been the leading cause of serious injury for people under age 25 in America, and in most years the top cause of death for teenagers. Russell Henk, an expert in young […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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