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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Alachua County Sheriff's Teen Driver Challenge

This past week, three wonderful girls from Levy County were in a terrible car crash when an oppusum crossed the road in front of their vehicle. Two girls were killed and one remains in serious condition in a Tampa Hospital.



As parents, our hearts go out to these families as we try to understand how such a horrible tragedy can happen. What can we do do prevent such a thing? Perhaps nothing. Perhaps something.



A few months ago, Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell appeared on our show "Ask a Lawyer" and described her departments Teen Driving Challenge. The program takes teen drivers and arms them with information about all the dangers of driving and puts them through emergency driving on the department's driving course. The Teen Driving Challenge teaches kids emergency braking and evasive manuvers, off road recovery and skid control. Call the Sheriff's Office at 352-367-4099 to enroll your teen driver. The course is free.

posted by Mark Avera at 1/02/2010 06:59:00 PM

1 Comments:

 Hayes Legal Videos said...

A sad story for certain! It's good to see action being taken toward helping educate teen drivers.

Of course it is important to realize that just teaching someone about emergency braking or evasive driving isn't quite enough to make those methods effective. In times of panic and stress the body reacts in the way it is most accustom, whether it be freezing, cowering, or responding effectively.

It would take a lot of practice in this program to instill those qualities, and I hope they take that into consideration.

January 06, 2010 9:26 PM  

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