SurvivetheDriveTM 
 

Driver Safety Education and Training Can you improve your "best behind the wheel?". Government legal requirements, restrictions and regulations deal with enforcement, fault and blame. . . . a well-intentioned public safety program. In the past fifty years the laws and the DMV driver's test have not improved as an effective crash deterrent. Driver preparation, education and training have stagnated. For many teenagers, that responsibility has been handed over to the parents, however that might work. This picture demonstrates the kinetic consequence of someone's very public error. I hope the parents teach their kids well. We Can Help. Car crashes aren't "accidents" as most news articles would describe them. In every collision in some behavioral manner someone, you or someone else, made a mistake, no matter how small, that caused it. The ice-crashed driver receives a warning, "too fast for conditions", everyone knows water freezes; predictable phenomena. You can't let yourself crash or be crashed. (Unfortunately, squirrels and deer can't be taught to cross the road safely. Not your bad.) When it comes to safety, your car is a guided, moving piece of equipment. It isn't smart enough to crash itself. The photograph accurately demonstrates this fact, however gruesome. "Every crash has violence and injury potential." We take seriously the Forty Thousand unintentional violent fatalities and Two and a Half Million injuries that take place each year on our roads (U.S.) decade after decade. How can you become a more prevention-conscious, conscientious driver? Or help others? SurvivetheDrive provides a positive, active, motivational presentation that explains the facts, conditions, situations, kinetics and conscious control of driving safely . . . and the consequences of operator errors, however unintentional or inadvertent. The presentation uses descriptions, analogies, mnemonics and demonstrations and powerpoint graphics to illustrate what isn't covered by the DMV Driver's Test and what isn't commonly known by most licensed drivers. Our communities depend on education to influence behavioral improvement and accomplishment. We depend on training to improve our athletes, surgeons, airline pilots and electricians. We concentrate on medical care, drug abuse prevention, quitting smoking, nutrition and domestic violence prevention in our health and wellness programs, yet the leading health risk for people under the age of 44 (U.S.) is the unintentional violence of car crashes. Some extra effort on driving will help. The SurvivetheDrive program is supported by research, social data, and the principles of psychology and education. The SurvivetheDrive program can also be effectively coupled with supplemental emotional or grief-oriented programs or emergency service crash enactments and portrayals.