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A Combination Sure to Combust

Parties, Cars, and Dangerous Behavior A true story by Waamene Yowika According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes—that’s one person every 48 minutes in 2017. These deaths have fallen by a third in the last three decades; however, drunk-driving crashes […]

2019 Video Contest Winners

At the 2019 U in the Driver Seat Symposium, attendees were asked to participate in a 60-second video challenge. College teams had one week to complete the video and garner social media engagements for a third of their final score. Teams were also scored on creativity and messaging. The theme for this year’s video contest […]

You’re Not Invincible to Distracted Driving Dangers

Listen up. Distracted driving is an issue and will remain one as younger generations grow up with a cell phone always at their fingertips. The graph below, created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that the number of drivers who use an electronic device is going down.  In 2016, 456 people died […]

Do You Have Road Rage?

Top Reasons Why People Engage in Aggressive Driving Let’s face it. We all want to get where we are going as soon as possible. Sometimes things get in our way, such as traffic, stop lights, pedestrians, and cyclists. I hear this all the time, “People in (insert literally any city name here) just don’t know […]