No other hazard or behavior comes close to claiming as many teen lives as driving. Approximately 100 teens die each year in car crashes in Virginia.

Partners for Safe Teen Driving is conducting a campaign with the release of the music video "It Can Wait" to let students and parents know about the dangers of texting or talking on a cell phone and driving. CLICK HERE for more information.

Involved, informed parents have long been considered the most influential factor in promoting safe teen driving. The mission of Partners for Safe Teen Driving is to help communities develop a parent education program, so that parents can guide their children through the first perilous years of driving.

Many school divisions and communities in Virginia have partnered to develop Safe Teen Driving programs. Approximately 43 communities now require parents of teen drivers to attend a meeting. At this meeting, parents receive information about Virginia's graduated licensing procedures, current driving techniques, procedures for helping teach their children to drive, curfew restrictions, and more.

A kit with step-by-step information about how communities can start their own programs has been sent to every school division in Virginia. CLICK HERE for more information.

 

April 17, 2012
Updated: Police ID Victims in Weekend Motorcycle Crashes - An Iraq war veteran was one of two men killed this weekend in separate accidents on Joplin Road. The first collision happened at 9:48 a.m. Saturday near the Prince William Forest Park headquarters when the 17-year-old driver of a 2007 Volkswagen Golf tried to make a U-turn in a driveway, but backed into the path of an oncoming motorcycle driven by Christopher Lee Capo, 34, of Dumfries, police said.

Capo, who was wearing a helmet, tried to swerve his 2010 Aprilia RSV4 bike out of the way but didn't make it in time, said Prince William County police spokesman Jonathan Perok. Capo, father of three young children, was pronounced dead at the scene. Speed and alcohol were not factors and the teen driver, of Manassas Park, has not been charged.

March 20, 2012
Teen killed in crash on WestConn campus - DANBURY -- A Danbury High School senior, who was killed in a crash on Western Connecticut State University's Westside campus Sunday, had been playing basketball with friends only a short time earlier before his car went over a median and slammed into a rock outcropping, school officials said Monday. Christopher Reyes, 17, was pronounced dead at the scene, university spokesman Paul Steinmetz said. Reyes was ejected from the driver's seat around 9:20 p.m. when his car struck the outcropping jutting from the grassy area that runs along University Boulevard, the only artery into campus, Steinmetz said.

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