Show Youth Can Lead In Road Safety AN OPPORTUNITY EXISTS for our teenagers to take the lead in reducing the alarming toll of highway accidents according to a recent study co-sponsored by the National Safety Council and American Oil WHO commonly get a lot of the blame for what goes on out on the can establish themselves as leaders in accident according to the survey if they choose to follow what the Council outlines as its formula for WHY ARE TEENAGERS singled out in this cooperative There are three good L They learn faster than other They haven't had time to up a lot of bad They are going to be driving a lot longer than the older HOW DO TEENAGERS STACK up against older drivers like their Not too according to the Councils The facts are that teenagers arc involved in twice as many fatal accidents for the number of miles they drive as drivers over age IN SPITE OF THE AVERAGE teenager's faster reflexes and better the experts point to two important attributes on which the average youngster falls short attitude and YOU WANT TO become a real sharp driver the survey queries in typical teen jargon do you You said it you turn to the The state the test track the trucker Who spends eight hours a day out on the road polishing up his savvy and These according to the not only know the theories of skillful driving they also are hep to the dozens of things that the average teenager learns only after they've happened to him WHAT DO THESE PROS have to say about how to stay alive in today's traffic Just this Don't show off or clown behind the It's the mark of an The pro knows Have guts enough behind the wheel to chicken out when common sense tells you it's time to give Quit worrying about who's The public highway Ls for not Do your racing at the Indianapolis if you're so The squeal of tires and roar of an exhaust may sound like hot stuff to a driver who needs it to build up his ego but it tags him a strictly an amateur to the real YOUR COACH send m a player who had been the cooperative report it goes double for A GROWING NUMBER OF according to the really want to be pro Not not but sensible and skilled INCREASING NUMBERS OF teenaged drivers are enrolling in driver education courses in high school Many it the best graduation present they YOUNG DRIVERS are urged to set a personal behind the wheel that will Influence others especially fellow teenagers to regard mature driving as the behind the CONCLUDES THE KIND TO OLDER drivers You may be one yourself |