Traffic safety program goes online

Posted 10/28/20

Safety advocates, school administrators, educators, health officials, and parents of teen drivers are invited to join an upcoming First Impact traffic safety presentation online.

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Safety advocates, school administrators, educators, health officials, and parents of teen drivers are invited to join an upcoming First Impact traffic safety presentation online.

The First Impact program will be presented Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. via the Zoom video meeting app.

First Impact is a 90-minute, evidence-based traffic safety program that educates parents and new teen drivers about Missouri’s graduated driver license law.

For a link to register for the online program, go to the First Impact Zoom Northeast event page on Facebook.

The goal of First Impact is to eliminate new driver crashes and reduce resulting injuries and fatalities, by increasing parental awareness and enforcement of Missouri’s graduated driver license law.  

Objectives of the program are to increase:

• Awareness of teen driving risks
• Understanding of Missouri’s GDL law
• GDL monitoring and enforcement at home
• Importance of being a positive role model

The program is delivered by trained facilitators and law enforcement officers who coach parents by presenting key facts and proven strategies to help parents lower their teens’ crash risk by utilizing the Missouri GDL law. The statewide program is available free of charge. Funding is provided by MoDOT’s Highway Safety & Traffic Division and State Farm Insurance.

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