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Looking For A Scholarship ? Check This Source!

Monica Zech — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:37:27 +0000

Excellent scholarship information from Senator Joel Anderson’s office:

http://legplcms01.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/images/SD36/images/Mar2012/Anderson_eAlert_030912.htm

A Mother’s Story – Losing Her Daughter Due To Texting

Monica Zech — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:19:47 +0000

A mother shares tragic her story of losing her daughter. On December 30th, 2011 her daughter was texting and driving when she lost control of her vehicle, crashed and died.

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Ripley-County-Teen-Killed-in-Crash-While-Texting/d6yUXcKISUGlctUdmhmCEw.cspx

Parents Of Teen Who Died Texting & Driving

Monica Zech — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:46:30 +0000

Parents of teen who died texting and driving: ‘Kids think they’re invincible’…Bright, outgoing college teen Taylor Sauer proved in the last minutes of her life she knew right from wrong — but still committed a fatal mistake. Click on the following link to see their story:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46627015/vp/46626165#46626165

Attention Parents & Teens – Tragic Story Involving Helium

Monica Zech — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:54:51 +0000

Oregon Teen Dies After Inhaling Helium at Party
It’s a common party trick, but the death exposes the real dangers of inhaling helium, especially from a pressurized tank. Click on the following link for the full story:

http://www.emsworld.com/news/10633017/oregon-teen-dies-after-inhaling-helium-at-party?cmpid=email_CPS120224006&utm_source=EMS+Weekly+Recap&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS120224006

Increase Seen In Teen Driver Deaths During 2011

Monica Zech — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:51:53 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A report released on February 16, 2012 by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reveals that the number of 16- and 17-year-old driver deaths in passenger vehicles increased slightly for the first six months of 2011, based on preliminary data supplied by all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Overall, 16- and 17-year-old driver deaths increased from 190 to 211 – an 11 percent increase. If the trend continued for the second half of 2011, it will mark the end of eight straight years of cumulative declines in deaths for this age group. Click on the word “report” or insert the following link in your address search bar.

http://www.ghsa.org/html/media/pressreleases/2012/20120216_teens.html

Great Safety Website Offered By Insurance Company – For Parents & Children

Monica Zech — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:53:18 +0000

There are many things that kids and their families can do to stay safe if there is a fire at home. Learning what to do if a fire happens is one important lesson for kid to absorb. Knowing where to go in a house fire and who to call for help are two other important things for a kid to learn.

The following website link offers very helpful home fire safety tips for kids.

Please click on the following link:

http://www.insurancequotes.org/home-fire-safety-for-kids/

Home Escape Plan Saves Family

Monica Zech — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:09:53 +0000

Having a home escape plan saved the family of a well known country singer, click on the following link:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/06/05/trace.adkins.fire/index.html?iref=allsearch

Buckle Up & STOP Texting – Remember Alex Brown Foundation

Monica Zech — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:23:39 +0000

On November 10, 2009, the Brown family’s teenage daughter died following a single car crash. The investigation found she had been “texting” when she rolled her truck off the roadway. As it rolled she was ejected through the front windshield.

Her parents started the “Remember Alex Brown Foundation” known as B.U.S.T. – Buckle Up & STOP Texting program. Click on the following links for more information.

http://www.rememberalexbrownfoundation.org/foundation/index.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEiBVfvnR6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKOiMSkLxY

Saving lives!

Distracted Driving – A Deadly Problem – Take The Pledge!

Monica Zech — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:25:05 +0000

Yes – “distracted driving” is a nation-wide problem! It injures and kills motorists and pedestrians every day!!!

I talk about distracted driving in my driving safety lectures, but I’ve also been the victim of distracted drivers (3) times in my driving career. First, I was hit by someone who flew into a parking where I was, while he was looking down at paperwork and talking on a cell phone – I was able to hit the gas and clear my drivers’ side to avoid certain death. Second, I was on a freeway - when a driver was busy looking to his right talking to his passenger and failed to notice stopped traffic ahead, he rear-ended traffic while jumping in front of me. The third, and hopefully the last, a motorist ran a STOP sign by “two” car lengths coming off a freeway to a surface street, she was in a hurry and busy talking to her young daughter, she looked to her right and “failed” to look to her left as I approached from her left side with the “right of way” – jumping into my path…”that” crash almost paralyzed me. I’ve got the scar from my $65-thousand neck surgery as lasting proof… so “yes” I know this problem all too well. (By the way my alertness and seat-belt saved me in all three incidents.) But sadly, I also respond to these incidents almost daily as a spokesperson for a police and fire department!

Please take a look at the following two websites, the second is Oprah’s “NO PHONE ZONE” campaign – please take the pledge, and have your family, friends, school, workplace, and civic groups “take the pledge!” It is a matter of Life and Death!

www.distraction.gov

Take the pledge:

http://www.oprah.com/questionaire/ipledge.html?id=4

Thank you and stay safe!

Monica Zech

Safe Driving Educator

monicazech@cox.net

Teens & Drugs – What You Should Know

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:54:55 +0000

What You Need To Know About Alcoholism

Research shows that teens believe that using prescription drugs is
safer than using illegal drugs, because they are medication. They also
think that having and using prescription drugs is legal. These and other
myths may help fuel a recent increase in teen drug abuse. See more
information below.

Teen Prescription Drug Use Fueled by Myths

Experts examining the recent increase in prescription drug abuse by teens believe that the trend is fueled in part by myths and misunderstandings surrounding the drugs in general.
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‘It Won’t Happen to My Teen’

Many parents just do not want to believe that their children will become involved in the use of drugs, prescription or illegal. It’s one of the myths surrounding teen prescription drug abuse: it won’t happen to my child.
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More Bad News for Alcohol-Energy Drinkers

A recent study found that bar-hopping college students who mixed alcohol with energy drinks were more likely to be very intoxicated and more likely to drive while drinking.
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