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The 2010 Driving the Message Contest has come to an end and the winners are in!
In the poster category first place went to Renata Gonzales from Communications Arts High School with “Death Comes in the Many Forms.” Second place went to Jenna Newton of MacArthur High School with “Cut Out of the Picture.” Angel Ortiz from Ysleta High School took home third place for “Death is Waiting.”
Texting has become an addiction – everywhere you go you see kids, teens, and adults on their phones texting. We text at dinner, during class, at work, during a movie and even while driving! I myself can’t help to look down at my phone when I see that I received a text but in that split second it takes to read that message I am putting my life and other drivers lives in danger. How many more people must be injured or killed before we as “texters” realize that to spare a life we must put down the phone and drive?
Do you want to be a leader in saving teen lives? Here’s your chance! Teens in the Driver Seat is looking for teens to be a part of the second TDS Teen Advisory Board.
The term of the teen advisory board will be from May 1, 2010 to April 30, 2011.
So what will TDS Teen Advisory Board members do?
The Global Road Safety Decade of Action working group met in Washington, D.C., on February 24, 2010.
You’re probably wondering, “what is the Global Road Safety Decade of Action?”
The goal of the working group (which also met in 2009) is to reduce the amount of road deaths in 2020 by 50 percent. The purpose of the group is to make sure that goal is obtained.
I was driving home from school yesterday, and as I was stuck in traffic, I looked over and saw this stupid girl reading a book while driving. She literally had the book on the steering wheel, while driving. At one point she put down the book so she could text. ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME? I mean, I understand that you get bored when you’re stuck in traffic, and that we are moving 1 mph. BUT COME ON, YOU’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, IN A CAR, LADY!!!!! I was just hoping for her to bump into the car in front of her, and then I could have laughed.
That’s pretty dumb. Although, at least she wasn’t texting while riding a MOTORCYCLE. Look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klteYv1Uv9A If that isn’t a death wish I don’t know what is!!!
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I agree very unprofessional. At least in your community you have signs! We dont have any signs and the law is being enforced……the irony! 
Ysleta High School, El Paso, TX
If I could change one thing about the way my friends drive, I would stop them from speeding.
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