Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Distracted
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This document outlines strategies for effectively speaking up when witnessing distracted driving as a passenger. It discusses the three types of distraction: manual, visual, and cognitive. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for 16-21 year olds, often due to excessive speed, lack of scanning, and driver distraction. Friends are often reluctant to speak up when being driven distracted by others. The document provides frameworks like the "AFS" approach to acknowledge the behavior, state your feelings, and offer a solution respectfully. It emphasizes sharing responsibility with the driver to arrive safely and offers examples of speaking up or helping in a non-accusatory way.
Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Distracted
- 1. Presentation Version 2013-14 1.3 HOW TO EFFECTIVELY SPEAK UP WHEN EXPERIENCING DISTRACTED DRIVING Joel Feldman Esq., MS Anapol Schwartz Philadelphia, PA SADD National Conference Washington, D.C., June 24, 2014 Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Distracted
- 2. Distracted Driving is: Driving while engaged in any activity that could divert a person's attention away from the primary task of driving. (SOURCE: Distraction.gov / NHTSA)
- 4. · Manual · Visual · Cognitive THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF DISTRACTION
- 5. Abbotsford Police Department Video
- 6. Just a Few Seconds
- 7. MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES ARE THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR 16-21 YEAR OLDS · Excessive speed Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia CIRP, Teen Driver Source, April 2011 Majority of serious teen crashes are caused by · Lack of scanning · Driver distraction
- 9. WHO WANTS TO KEEP THEIR FRIENDS SAFE? Who is willing to speak up when friends drive distracted—even if it might be a difficult conversation?
- 10. 18-24 YEAR OLDS ARE LEAST LIKELY TO SPEAK UP WHEN DRIVEN DISTRACTED BY OTHERS USDOT NHTSA April 2012
- 11. SPEAKING UP WHEN FRIENDS DRIVE DISTRACTED · Pros of speaking up when friends drive distracted? · Cons? Why might it be difficult to speak up?
- 12. GOALS: Increase your comfort about speaking up Adapted from Bacchus Network Bystander Intervention, 2013 Increase your confidence that you will be successful in helping your driver drive safer
- 13. WHO HAS EXPERIENCED DISTRACTED DRIVING? What have you seen as a passenger? How did you feel being driven by a distracted driver?
- 14. YOUR FEELINGS WHEN EXPERIENCING DISTRACTED DRIVING INCLUDE What have you seen as a passenger? How did you feel being driven by a distracted driver?
- 15. Two sides to distracted driving
- 16. WHEN EXPERIENCING DISTRACTED DRIVING YOU HAVE A CHOICE Say nothing and hope you and your friend arrive safely OR Speak up and share the responsibility with your driver for arriving safely
- 17. WHY DON’T Because we care about each other DRIVE DRUNK? FRIENDS LET FRIENDS ... AND DISTRACTED?
- 18. Even though it’s not illegal it’s still dangerous Bridgestone and Tosh Chambers, Harrisburg, PA.
- 19. “AFS” FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION A Acknowledge the behavior F State your feelings about the behavior S Solve the problem by offering a solution
- 20. “I see that you are having trouble staying in your lane while texting” ACKNOWLEDGE THE BEHAVIOR IN A FACTUAL NON-EMOTIONAL MANNER IF YOU CAN “I see you are steering with your knees because your hands are full”
- 21. STATE YOUR FEELINGS USING “I” STATEMENTS Avoid being accusatory (“your driving is …”) “I am a little nervous when you text” “It scares me when the car goes over the center line”
- 22. SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY OFFERING A SOLUTION Share Responsibility with the Driver “Let me send that text for you” “We are not in a hurry-pull over so you can use your hands to eat” “I can answer the phone”
- 23. LET’S PRACTICE
- 24. IT STARTS WITH YOU—CHANGE THE WAY YOU DRIVE Change the way others drive
- 25. Taking Action to Drive Safer The Family Safe Driving Agreement
- 26. YES I CAN Drive without sending or receiving texts. Call/text before I start driving to let parents, friends and others know when I’ll arrive. Pull over to a safe location to check texts or listen to voice mail. Deputize my passenger when I am driving to text or make calls for me.
- 27. Pull over to a safe location or wait until I am finished driving to eat or apply make-up. YES I CAN Stop texting, or end phone conversations with others once I learn they are driving. Wait to text or call others until they have stopped driving. When alone, turn my cell phone off or on vibrate before starting to drive.
- 28. Pull over to a safe location or wait until I am finished driving to adjust music, change CD’s, check Facebook, surf the internet, scroll through I-Pods, I -phones or similar devices. YES I CAN When being driven by a distracted driver ask the driver to drive safer. As a passenger share the responsibility for arriving safely with my driver and offer help so my driver does not drive distracted.
- 29. Stay Informed. Educate Others. Do YOUR part to help End Distracted Driving. Please take a moment to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter: “End Distracted Driving” & “The Casey Feldman Network” @end_dd