Allstate ad or not, I live in Columbus Ohio. Believe me I will be passing this along to everyone I know with or without teens. I hope they pass it along as well. None of us want a teen to be involved in these types of accidents. Nor do I want to be the other driver involved in an accident with a teen that believes they are invincible.
I live in Jax FL, and I can tell you that I get off the road New Year’s Eve at 4:00 in the afternoon, and don’t go back out until after 10:00 on New Year’s Day. People in this city can’t drive under optimal circumstances, and you add teen drivers and alcohol to the mix, and it’s bedlam at the emergency room.
That might be a thought. Teenagers should spend a typical Friday night in an emergency room. I did because of an accident years ago. They might not like what they see. Kind of like the old show “scared straight” for young drivers.
Ah, statistics, how revealing…of what? The obvious! When put in context, we should not surprised that car accidents are the leading cause of injuries to teens, or anyone else. After all, driving a car is the riskiest activity that most of us engage in with any regularity (outside of some hazardous occupations) It also seems logical to me that New Year’s Eve would be the riskiest night to be driving (did we expect it to be in the middle of day on the third Thursday in May??)
I take comfort in the fact that it IS driving that has the greatest risk for most of us, and that it IS New Years Eve that’s the riskiest night to be driving – forewarned is forearmed!
What I would find truly alarming would be something like “the leading cause of injury and death among otherwise healthy individuals is exploding water balloons on July 4th”
What a nice Allstate commercial….I mean what an informative piece of journalism.
Darminism !!
Darminism???? What am I missing? Or did you mean Darwinism?
Allstate ad or not, I live in Columbus Ohio. Believe me I will be passing this along to everyone I know with or without teens. I hope they pass it along as well. None of us want a teen to be involved in these types of accidents. Nor do I want to be the other driver involved in an accident with a teen that believes they are invincible.
I live in Jax FL, and I can tell you that I get off the road New Year’s Eve at 4:00 in the afternoon, and don’t go back out until after 10:00 on New Year’s Day. People in this city can’t drive under optimal circumstances, and you add teen drivers and alcohol to the mix, and it’s bedlam at the emergency room.
That might be a thought. Teenagers should spend a typical Friday night in an emergency room. I did because of an accident years ago. They might not like what they see. Kind of like the old show “scared straight” for young drivers.
D(h)arminism: noun, the belief that life has no purpose and everything is groovy. (See Dharma & Greg)
Another useful way to spunk tax payers money..
if they have this information, why is it not being heavily policed?
Ah, statistics, how revealing…of what? The obvious! When put in context, we should not surprised that car accidents are the leading cause of injuries to teens, or anyone else. After all, driving a car is the riskiest activity that most of us engage in with any regularity (outside of some hazardous occupations) It also seems logical to me that New Year’s Eve would be the riskiest night to be driving (did we expect it to be in the middle of day on the third Thursday in May??)
I take comfort in the fact that it IS driving that has the greatest risk for most of us, and that it IS New Years Eve that’s the riskiest night to be driving – forewarned is forearmed!
What I would find truly alarming would be something like “the leading cause of injury and death among otherwise healthy individuals is exploding water balloons on July 4th”