The PEERS Foundation is proud to announce our partnership with Toyota and Toyota’s TEEN Drive 365 initiative. We are excited to announce that The PEERS Foundation will be on National Tour with Toyota’s TEEN Drive 365 program. where we will be touring our AWARE TXT educational simulator experience to help shed light on the dangers […]
Toyota, which has been doing teen safety programs and resources for a decade, has just launched its biggest such campaign to date under its “Let’s Go Places” brand campaign. Called TeenDrive365, the effort includes video content, online tools and advice, and national events about distracted driving. There is also a consumer content video competition dangling […]
The Texting While Driving Tour with AT&T hit Kentucky in late August and had a very successful event. It was event covered in the Madison Courier by their staff writer Renee Bruck. 8/25/2012 9:00:00 AM Did They Get The Message? A simulated scenario allowed juniors and seniors at a local high school to see how […]
AT&T has started a no texting and driving campaign traveling the United States educating youth on the dangers and texting and driving. The new campaign titled “It Can Wait” supported not only in person but also on social media outlets Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #itcanwait. A full news release it below: Americans Urged […]
The PEERS Foundation and AT&T have agreed to partner for the AwareTXT Driving Simulator Tour. AT&T will be traveling around the United States with the PEERS simulator to events reaching everyone from young children in schools to adults at conferences. PEERS Foundation is very excited about this partnership and the awareness AT&T can bring […]
Each year in the Washington D.C. area NBC4 the local news affiliate hosts a Health and Fitness Expo. This year PEERS was on hand with their Texting Driving Simulator. It was a great opportunity for anyone adults or young adults to try it out and get a real life experience on distracted driving. You can […]
State Farms Insurance in conjunction with the PEERS, a health and wellness foundation based in Grand Rapids, MI completed a four school tour in Montana to provide students an opportunity to experience distracted driving. The experience starts with students sitting behind the wheel of an actual vehicle and wear goggles displaying distracted and impaired driving […]
The first National Teen Distracted Driving Summit took place this past October in Washington D.C. and PEERS was on hand to aid in assisting students in experiencing what distracted driving is like. According to an article by ABC News 2 out of Baltimore, Maryland the Summit was hosted by the National Organizations for Youth Safety. […]
At Keystone Central School in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania allowed student to get behind a wheel and experience the consequences first hand of driving distracted while texting. According to the article by Scott Johnson for Lockhaven.com, the students failed miserably with speeding, swearving off the road, into other lanes and even hitting pedestrians. The students themselves found […]
The Children’s Hospital in partnership with State Farm conducted a study that looks into teen deaths related to motor vehicle accidents. This research document displays data of the study on how teens view safety when driving. Over 5,665 students responded to the surveys to create a white sample population to help represent a larger sample […]
Keller Ford sponsored a distracted driving simulator for two days (3/29 and 3/30) at Kenowa Hills High School here in West Michigan. Local Fox News 17 was there yesterday, and we were featured on their nightly news. Check out the full story here.
UPDATE: You can check out the article here, and watch the video below. I just got back from the show at Byron Center High School here in Michigan. Thanks to Harold Zeigler, hundreds of students have been able to try the texting while driving simulator, and the reception could not have been better. It was […]
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The PEERS Foundation is proud to announce our partnership with Toyota and Toyota’s TEEN Drive 365 initiative
