AAA Offers Traffic Safety Presentations
Traffic crashes are becoming a public health crisis in our society, as over 43,000 American lives are claimed every year on our roads. With over 80 years of traffic safety experience under our belts, AAA offers a wide variety of community traffic safety education programs aimed at keeping our roads safe for everyone.
We offer myriad presentations aimed at a variety of audiences, including elementary students, teens, seniors, community groups and employees at corporate functions. Whatever the needs of your organization, we can tailor any presentation to fit your group. We are prepared to customize the length and style of any presentation.
Please feel free to contact us at publicrelations@arizona.aaa.com and arrange to have AAA partner with you.
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Here are some of the programs we offer:
Dare to Prepare
AAA Arizona’s Dare to Prepare workshop is a presentation that provides critical information parents and teens need to know before teens take the wheel. Dare to Prepare aims to increase the amount of teen exposure to traffic safety issues, encourage dialogue between teens and their parents and promote safe teen drivers. The presentation achieves these objectives by providing guidance and resources to help teens through the learning-to-drive process, including:
- State and national statistics on teen driving
- Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) components
- State requirements for obtaining a permit and driver's license
- Parents’ roles and responsibilities
- What to look for in a driving school
- Driving logs and contracts
- Practical tips on teaching teens to drive
- Tools and resources that can help
Otto the Auto
Through fun educational videos and a website, “Otto the Auto” teaches children in preschool through second grade the important information they need to know to remain safe on and around our roads, whether they are a pedestrian, riding in a car or riding a bicycle. Otto the Auto and his friends teach students important traffic safety principles while increasing their knowledge of reading, math, spelling and other basic skills.
Helmet Your Head: Bicycle Safety
The focus of the Helmet Your Head program is to make students aware of the devastating consequences that can occur if they choose not to wear a helmet. This fun and interactive program will teach kids the importance of helmets while learning about the brain. Lessons utilize a lifelike brain and skull, educational handouts and demonstrations on proper helmet usage, with the chance to win a free helmet!
School Safety Patrol
For more than 87 years, the AAA School Safety Patrol program has provided a safer pedestrian environment and a wide spectrum of educational opportunities for millions of schoolchildren. The program has been praised by safety and education groups around the globe for reducing injuries and deaths among five to 14 year-olds, the age group most at risk for pedestrian injury. The program also instills students with a sense of responsibility and leadership, as each day they protect classmates going to and from school. AAA Arizona can bring a qualified traffic safety expert to your school to help introduce and set up this program.
Distracted Driving
Did you know that for every two seconds a driver diverts his attention from the wheel, his possibility of a fatal crash nearly doubles? To combat this increasing safety concern, AAA is committed to educating drivers on the full range of distractions that can lead to crashes – text messaging, rubbernecking, adjusting the radio, attending to children, talking to a passenger, eating and drinking, using a mobile phone, reading a map – all are activities that divert the driver’s attention from the driving task. All of these activities place the driver, passengers and others on the road at risk.
Seat Belt and Child Passenger Safety Awareness
Seat belts are the single most effective means of reducing the risk of death in a crash and have saved approximately 211,000 lives in the last 30 years in the United States alone. In 2004, 797 people died while riding in cars and light trucks in Arizona. Of these, 60 percent died while not wearing their safety belts. Crashes cost employers about $799 million annually in the Arizona and about $430 per employee.
AAA Arizona can provide a qualified guest speaker for your school, corporation or community organization. We have programs available to help increase seat belt awareness and usage by your employees, students or members.
Drunk and Drugged Driving
In 2006, 17,602 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes. Stopping drugged and drunk driving needs to be a community-wide effort. AAA can offer tips to parents to help talk to your teens about drinking and driving. We can help schools arrange alcohol awareness events and provide guest speakers. AAA also has corporate presentations on drugged and drunk driving prevention because AAA is dedicated to making the roads safer for everyone.
Tips for Parent Driver Training
Though recent studies show that parent-only driver training is not as effective as formal drivers education, parents play a vital role in shaping driving habits and behaviors behind the wheel. The new Graduated Driver’s License laws in Arizona require permit drivers to have 30 hours of supervised behind-the-wheel training, at least 10 of which must be at night. In this parents-only class, AAA can help parents navigate the difficult process of behind-the-wheel training. Included in this presentation are helpful handouts and resources, as well as an email newsletter subscription aimed at coaching parents through this daunting process.
Senior Mobility
AAA also offers two senior mobility programs: Carfit and Roadwise Review.
CarFit
CarFit is an educational program developed by the American Society of Aging, AAA, AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association to help older drivers improve the “fit” of their vehicles' safety and comfort. At the event, trained professionals from AAA and other organizations will work side-by-side to assist senior drivers with items such as a clear line of sight over the steering wheel, adequate space between the front airbag/steering wheel and the driver’s breastbone, properly adjusted head restraints, easy access to gas and brake pedals and proper seat belt usage.
Roadwise Review
Roadwise Review is a computer-based screening program that tests seniors on the most likely predictors of crash risk. Because of their fragility, seniors have the highest crash death rate per mile of everyone on the road except teenagers. In fact, people over 65 are the fastest-growing population in the United States and by 2020 there will be more than 40 million licensed drivers ages 65 and older.
AAA Arizona can bring a qualified traffic safety expert out to your senior group and demonstrate how this computer-based program is set up and used.
To arrange a presentation of any of these programs, please contact our Traffic Safety Specialist at publicrelations@arizona.aaa.com.
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