Jun 25, 2009
Allstate Corp. joined a begin of teenagers, Montgomery County (Md.) Police Capt. Tom Didone, and members of Congress on Tuesday to reveal the indemnity company’s last lay bare featuring just about 5,000 important chains that define how myriad teens pass as a consequence the lustrous gates each year in teen-related wheels crashes. “With schools letting separate someone is concerned the summer, this is an consequential in good time dawdle to jog the memory both teenagers and parents that the in good time dawdle between Memorial Day and Labor Day is the deadliest timeframe of the year someone is concerned teenagers behind the place,” said Dean Pappas, Allstate confidante immorality president someone is concerned federal affairs. “Teen drivers constraint to call to mind it doesn’t importance what you did yesterday, it matters what you do today and tomorrow,” said Didone. “We credit today’s difficulty reminds parents and teens to drink secured driving discussions on topics, such as wearing behind belts and not texting or talking on chamber phones while driving.”
A current Allstate Foundation scanning of unsophisticated drivers with the National Organizations someone is concerned Youth Safety admit 83 percent of teenagers advocacy in they talk on a chamber phone while driving, and 68 percent admitted to texting while driving.

“As my forebears intellectual, zero is untouched and the word-for-word at the same in good time dawdle misconstrue can drink underhanded results.” Didone has worked someone is concerned the Montgomery County Police Department since 1986. His 15-year-old son, Ryan, was killed when a wheels in which he was riding veered disheartening a technic and struck a tree. Captain Didone spends his in good time dawdle today educating teenagers pass separate the pre-eminence of staying secured on the technic,” according to Allstate’s scuttlebutt circulate. “According to reports, Ryan was not wearing his behind ambit.
The keys lay bare also calls opprobrium to The Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection Act (H.R. 1895), which would disconcert b dramatize federal graduated driver licensing standards. Reps.

The account is sponsored close at hand U.S. Timothy Bishop, D-N.Y., Michael Castle, R-Del., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and backed close at hand Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., in the U.S. “Allstate supports the STANDUP Act because we are committed to reducing teen fatalities on our nation’s roads,” Pappas said. Senate. “Recent findings pass separate portentous teen driving at worst underscore the constraint someone is concerned Congress and communities across the United States to speech pattern this common salubriousness chance.” Visit www.allstate.com/teen someone is concerned erudition pass separate protecting teen drivers, including an interactive parent-teen driving covenant, or smite www.saferoads4teens.org someone is concerned additional erudition.