Parent Night Course Intro

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State of New Hampshire Departments of Education
and Safety Division of Program Support
DRIVER EDUCATION RISK PREVENTION CURRICULUM GUIDE
Crash Facts Teen Drivers Habit Development
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Male drivers spends an average of 81 minutes a
day driving

• If a male receives his license at 16 and drives
  for sixty years, he will drive 29,565 hours in
  his lifetime
• That is a equivalent to driving 24 hours a day
  for 1,232 days or 3.375 years of his life
• USA Today USA Snapshots-10/12/98

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Female drivers spends an average of 64 minutes a
day driving

• If a female receives her license at 16 and drives
  for sixty years, she will drive 23,360 hours in
  her lifetime
• That is a equivalent to driving 24 hours a day
  for 973 days or 2.665 years of her life
• USA Today USA Snapshots-10/12/98

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September 11th Occurs Every 25 Days On Our
Nation's Highways
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Americans Killed in Combat vs.Motor Vehicle
Fatalities
3,070,189
620,219
(225 years)
(100 years)
Combat Deaths 1775-1999 Motor Vehicle
Fatalities 1900-1999.
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N H Crashes 2007

• Fatal 122 129 Killed
• Reported, Entered into System Injuries or
  1000 29,958
• Total Injuries (39.4 of Reported) 11,803

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Driver Research

• 90 of fatal crashes are the results of driver
  behavior
• 21 of those crashes attributed to aggressive
  driving
• 90 of fatals could have been avoided if driver
  had reacted one second earlier

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Driver Research

• 50 of all rear-end and intersection related
  collisions and 30 of oncoming traffic collisions
  could have been avoided had the driver recognized
  danger 1/2 sec. earlier and reacted correctly

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Safety Belts Work!

• Most effective means of reducing fatalities and
  serious injuries when traffic crashes occur
• Estimated to save 9,500 lives in America each
  year
• Lap/shoulder belts, when used properly, reduce
  the risk of fatal injury to front seat passenger
  car occupants by 45 and the risk of
  moderate-to-critical injury by 50

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Safety belts and child safety seats work!
Yet, in the U.S. in 2006 55 of both adults and
children who died in traffic crashes were
unrestrained.
NHTSA 2006
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COSTS?

• 50 Would Have Lived
• Reduced Injuries
• Hospital Stay Shorter
• Rehab Treatment
• Employee/Employer Losses
• Insurance Costs/Rates
• Ability to Control Vehicle To Avoid or Reduce
  Crash Costs

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HOSPITALIZATION

• CRASHES - 2003
• WITH SB 1 IN 6 17
• WITHOUT 1 IN 3 32
• 1996 SB 20 UB 31
• 1998 SB 18 UB 33
• 2000 SB 16 UB 30

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Motor Vehicle Crashes Teenagers
Motor Vehicle Crashes Teenagers

• Motor vehicle crashes are the LEADING cause of
  death for teenagers ages 15-20
• Teenage drivers ages 15-20 account for 6.3 of
  all drivers but account for 13.6 of all
  drivers involved in fatal crashes

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Teenage Licensed Drivers

• 1 in 6 are involved in a law enforcement reported
  crash every year
• 1 in 40 are injured in a collision every year
• 22 teenagers are involved in fatal crashes every
  day
• 10 teenagers parish in crashes every day
• 17 of 16-20 year olds involved in fatal crashes
  in 2004 had BAC of .08 or higher
• Drivers 16-24 year olds represented 24 of all
  fatalities in 2004
• Source NHTSA, 2004

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2006 TEEN CRASH FACTS

• In 2006, young drivers age 16-20 were involved in
  6,984 fatal traffic collisions.
• 461,000 16-20 year olds were injured in traffic
  collisions.
• 993,000 young drivers ages 16-20 were involved in
  crashes resulting in property damage only.
• 3,406 young people were killed.
• 1,648 16 20 year olds died in crashes involving
  at least one driver/motorcycle operator with BAC
  of .08 or higher.
• Source NHTSA, 2006

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TEEN CRASH FACTS

• Sixty-three percent (63) of teenage passenger
  deaths take place when another teen is driving
  the vehicle. (Insurance Institute for Highway
  Safety, IIHS, 2001)
• Forty-one percent (41) of fatal crashes
  involving teenagers occur at night (between the
  hours of 900 p.m. and 600 a.m.). (IIHS, 2001)
• In 2000, the estimated economic cost of
  police-reported crashes involving drivers between
  15 and 20 years-old was 32.8 billion. (NHTSA,
  2001)

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16 Year Olds Deficiencies in Specific Driving
Behaviors that Cause Crashes (McKnight 2002)
1) Attention-23 2) Adjusting Speed-20.8 3)
Search Ahead-19.1 4) Search To The Side-14.2 5)
Maintaining Space-9.8 6) Tie-Search to
Rear/Emergencies 9.4
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US Crash Pyramid
196.2 Million Licensed Drivers

• Deaths
  42,642
• Injuries 2,575,000
• Property Damage
  4,281,000
• LER
  Crashes 10,933,000
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  Unreported Crashes
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  Close Calls
• Stressful
  Situations
• High Risk Driver Behaviors
  Estimated 9 X 10 ²³
• Not Everything That Counts Can
  Be Counted - Albert Einstein

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Risk Factors

• Choose 3 numbers between 1 62
• Choose 3 more numbers between 63 150
• Choose 3 more number between 150 223

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What are the chances

• of a crash occurring under those circumstances?
• a crash could be prevented?
• any two students chose exactly the same 9 risk
  factors?

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Trillions of Ways a Crash Can Occur

• To significantly reduce the chances of crashing
• We need to eliminate those risk factors
  contributed by our performance and, acquire a
  system of preventative habits.
• 10 Model Driving Habits serve as an insurance
  policy to give low-risk behavioral patterns that
  will provide protection against an over
  accumulation of risk factors.
• That's what this course is all about.

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10 Model Driving Habits

• Driver Vehicle Readiness
• See Clear Path Before Moving
• Keep the Car in Balance
• Use Reference Points
• Do LOS-POT Searching
• Turn Decisions in Actions
• Control the Intersection
• Get Rear Zone Control
• Control With a Front Vehicle
• Be Courteous to Others

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Process of Habit Development

• For Positive Habit Development to Occur
• Need to know what to do have the desire to do
  it
• Demonstrate that you are capable of doing it
• Overcome internal resistance and tame the monster
  of bad habit
• Be able to know when it is correctly or
  incorrectly performed
• Practice doing it correctly 28 times
• Do it correctly without thought

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Habit Development

• Knowledge what to do and why
• Skill how to do
• Attitude desire or want to do
• KAS Habit
• Pattern of Behavior Can Be Learned or Unlearned
• Requires Time, Energy and Commitment

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Four Levels of Driver Performance

• Automatic Okay Behavior
• With no conscious thought process, one takes the
  correct action by habit.
• Intentional Okay Behavior
• When one thinks about it, one knows he/she has
  taken or is taking the correct action.
• Intentional Not Okay Behavior
• When one thinks about it, one knows he/she has
  taken or is taking the wrong action.
• Automatic Not Okay Behavior
• With no conscious thought process, one takes the
  wrong action by habit.

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Risk Prevention Education Makes a Difference

• Concurrent Class and
• In-car Sessions
• Behavior Based
• Simple to Complex
• Pre Determined Routes
• Conscious Level of Learning
• Goal of Risk Prevention Habit Formation

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Parental Involvement SupportMakes a Difference

• Behavior Specific Guided Practice
• Conscious Level of Performance
• Records Routes
• Recognition
• Reinforcement
• Repetition
• Low Risk Driving Style

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You Can Make a Difference

• Self Be an example
• Be a positive influence on others
• Support COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAMS