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Teen Driver Safety Week: Watch out |
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Written by Jared Leone
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
Congress declared Oct. 15 to 20 National Teen Driver Safety Week. To honor the first time the national spotlight has been on young drivers, TheSequitur.com has culled the best teen driver stories from across the country.
- One 17-year old driver just got four-years for a DUI crash that killed a passenger and injured another.
- A Florida teen was pulled over and gave the officer this excuse: he was trying to make it home before curfew.
- A California driver was sentenced to six months after reckless driving killed a schoolteacher.
- With a credit to timing, the police report in the Nick “Hogan” Bollea driving disaster, which left his passenger in a hospital possibly for life, was released early in the week. Nothing real revealing, but the officer did draw a neat diagram of how the Toyota Supra Bollea was driving spun out.
No matter if the driver is teenage or middle age, the combination of speed and cars can kill. There is at least one group working to make the dangers of driving less of a problem for less-experienced drivers.
[Freep.com, WFLA.com, Chicago Tribune, Herald Tribune, CBS13.com, St. Petersburg Times]
Jared Leone, a TheSequitur.com senior editor, is a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times and a federal courthouse stringer for the Associated Press. |
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