“I was astounded to learn that even though 6,000 teen drivers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0and 2,000 of their passengers die every year, and 400,000 kids <\/strong><\/p>\n

are seriously injured, the driving manuals and other literature <\/strong><\/p>\n

usually say little more than ‘Be careful.’\u00a0 Cigarette packs carry<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0warnings about death, and patients going into surgery are<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0warned multiple times that death is a potential consequence,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0but the driving literature doesn’t warn parents about how <\/strong><\/p>\n

dangerous teen driving is, and why. Meanwhile, every night<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0on television we see ads with cars doing 360’s on busy city <\/strong><\/p>\n

streets, crashing through glass, spinning into parking spaces,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0and weaving through dense traffic at high speeds, all without<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0a scratch.\u00a0 Our culture glorifies risky driving. We need a <\/strong><\/p>\n

counterbalance that will caution parents and teens<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I was astounded to learn that even though 6,000 teen drivers \u00a0and 2,000 of their passengers die every year, and 400,000 kids are seriously injured, the driving manuals and other literature usually say little more than ‘Be careful.’\u00a0 Cigarette packs carry \u00a0warnings about death, and patients going into surgery are \u00a0warned multiple times that death is a potential consequence, \u00a0but the driving literature doesn’t warn parents about how dangerous teen driving is, and why. Meanwhile, every night \u00a0on television we see ads with cars doing 360’s on busy city streets, crashing through glass, spinning into parking spaces, \u00a0and weaving through dense traffic at high speeds, all without \u00a0a scratch.\u00a0 Our culture glorifies risky driving. We need a counterbalance that will caution parents and teens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,52,53,51,59,54,48,37,56,49,58,41,60,57,61,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loditrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}