Drive Safe HR

Category Archives: Occupant Protection

  • Home
  • Category Archives: "Occupant Protection"

2019-2020-Get It Together (GIT) Seat Belt Challenge PRESS RELEASE

Increasing Seat Belt Use Among Teens Thirty-five area high schools will be participating in challenge to increase seat belt use Hampton Roads, Va. (October 15, 2019) – Thirty-five local high schools will compete in the 2019-2020 Get It Together High School Seat Belt Challenge.  The aim of this challenge is to increase seat belt use and improve driving behaviors for…
Read more
General Information, Get It Together Seat Belt Challenge, Occupant Protection
No comments
Permalink

Every 15 Minutes

Every 15 Minutes Every 15 Minutes is a two-day program focusing on high school juniors and seniors, which challenges them to think about drinking, driving, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions.  Along with alcohol-related crashes, it focuses on the impact that their decisions would have on family and friends.   First Colonial High School (2019)  Tallwood…
Read more
Distracted Driving, Drugged/Drunk Driving, Impaired Driving Prevention, Seat Belt
No comments
Permalink

SEPTEMBER IS BICYCLIST AND PEDESTRIAN AWARENESS MONTH

Last year, 123 pedestrians died as a result of collisions with motor vehicles - a 7.9% increase compared to 2017. 13 bicyclists, 568 drivers, and 128 passengers died because of traffic crashes during the same period. In 2018, Virginia averaged one traffic crash every 4 minutes! Each day, 2.2 lives were lost and 182 people…
Read more
General Information, Occupant Protection, Pedestrian Safety
No comments
Permalink