Online Defensive Driving Tips

New safety driving courses will be held this month by AAA Arizona. These safety driving courses aim towards keeping teenagers and senior citizens free from collision in the year 2011. The classes held in Scottsdale and Phoenix are going to provide families with tips on safety and defensive driving. They will also illustrate the traffic fatalities statistics for the targeted age groups. You can register online for these 90 minute courses. The teen driving courses will focus on the safe and responsible behavior expected when teens are behind the wheel. The driving courses for seniors, educates families when they need to seek transportation facilities for those who no longer can get behind the wheel. According to the national traffic safety experts, the most accident prone people in the U.S. are those aged between 16 to 20 years old and those older than 65. A 2010 research study showed one in three parents thought that their teenage children were still not prepared to drive unsupervised i...

Now, parents will have some reason to celebrate as a recent report shows that over the past few years, the number of teenage drivers in fatal accidents fell more than one third. Even though car accidents still hold the number one cause of death for teenagers with 8 deaths occurring on an average day on American roads. This drop in the accident chart can be credited to the parents. Parents are encouraging their teens to practice safety in their driving. Every parent must influence the habit of safe driving within their children. Some the practical steps that they can easily implement are: 1.Extend the supervised driving periods of their teens beyond the legal age to assess the skills and reactions fully. 2.Explain and reinforce the rules of the road clearly. 3.Create parent-teen agreements to hold teen drivers accountable to expectations. Car crashes are four times higher in teens than their elders and the likelihood of accidents are more when teens are behind the wheel. Parents can inf...

According to Alan Smith, the Bedford County Area Agency on Aging Director, it is a tremendous privilege for senior citizens to be able to drive. “Older people have repeatedly said it would be devastating, it would be terrible to lose their driving license”, he added just before the National Older Driver Safety Awareness Week started. Allen D. Beihler, PennDOT Secretary, believes that it is important to strike the right balance between road safety and the mobility of older drivers, especially since 16 per cent of the state drivers are over the age of 65. “Driving is a privilege; however, the loss of that privilege can be devastating for an older driver who is not prepared to accept the change”, Beihler said. The senior drivers are encouraged to wear seatbelts. Also, new safety driving courses have been initiated especially for senior drivers. Elderly drivers are encouraged to take up these driving classes which also offer a five per cent reduction on insurance premiums. Almost 22 per ce...