The B.R.A.K.E.S. Pro-Active Teen Defensive Driving Program: Saving Lives and Making Our Roadways

Unnecessary tragedy and hardship can be avoided through the exercises that are not included in driving school curriculums.  That’s why proactive training is so effective—it offers actual, behind-the wheel experience in controlled environments that simulate what happens too often on today’s highways and surface streets. These are the situations that most often lead to on-road tragedy.

Having taught approximately 45,000 teens across the country over the dozen  years, it’s especially rewarding to know that our program is truly making a difference.  An independent study reported that our graduates are 64 percent less likely to be in a crash in their first three years of driving. But even 12 years into this, we’re still at the starting line.  There is so much work to be done to reach our country’s newest and most inexperienced drivers, as well as their parents. 

And while B.R.A.K.E.S. and other great programs are having a measurable impact, the rate of fatalities and injuries caused by car crashes remains high.  Simply stated, one is too many.

I ask parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts to help fight this national epidemic. At a time when preoccupation and distraction is unprecedented, we must do something, and we must do it immediately.  As I can tell you personally, too much is at risk.

Report this Page