Force fight against accidents
A group of legal work in the fight against teen wrecks try invites students to teach, such as safety messages. Georgia to fifth place in the nation and per capita teen-age driving deaths related to South Carolina and Tennessee, after 1996, statistics. The number of victims of 29 percent teen Georgia has increased by 183 to 286 of 1994-96.The Task Force visited Georgia to four schools, including Savannah’s Jenkins High School, in an interview with small groups of students and leaders, their ideas on what should be done to ensure that the mortality rate.
The Group is particularly concerned about how young people increasingly aware of the importance of seat belts. The Task Force is the information it collects, to attend the general assembly during the year 1999.
Far federal, car accidents are the No. 1 killer of teenagers. More than 60 per cent of deaths, young people are not capable of seatbelts, “said John Morris, Executive Director of the Atlanta-Teen-Driver Safety Council.
“ We want early warning of the population vis-à-vis this epidemic,’’said Morris. “ We are going to No. 1 in the nation teen victims.”
Wyoming, the list of teen killed 63.3 per 100000 youth. Georgia has a mortality rate of 44.9.
State Senator Chuck Clay, chairman of Task Force, said the key youth better to do on the dangers of driving are education, justice and punishment. The youth realize their driving licence may be in danger if they fail to comply with the rules, they listen.
“ Death is the best incentive,”he said. “ If the penalty is a joke, then reflect their behavior.”
Next week, Jenkins High students receive a strong memory of the law. Every Friday, for the remainder of May, Savannah police to verify that students wear their seatbelts. If not, they receive an appointment for $ 15
“ If you hand that ticket, you will see a change in behaviour, Sir,’’said Clay.
Jenkins High students say seat belt use among teenagers, but they know that it is always a problem. The nine encounters with students of the Task Force, he knew that someone seriously injured in a car accident. But many of his friends said he still believes will not get them that they invincible.
“ I could not do lose one of my classmates,’’said Senior Calvin Butts, recommends that increased the fine for not wearing a seat belt from $ 15 to 50 $ U.S..
“ Many of us not to think about how we are fortunate about the situation in his reader, étudiant”a declared the end of President Kim Cooper. “ Done learning this information and want to tell me that people on it.”
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