Teen drivers

See how service-learning programs at high schools across the country are helping this accident-prone group travel safely.

Child passenger safety

Visit the Middle Tennessee Child Passenger Safety Center located at Meharry Medical College and supported by the Tennessee Governor's Highway Safety Office.

A toolkit for increasing
seat belt use in your community

Go to seatbeltsR4U.org to see how any community can develop a seat belt program tailored for its individual needs.

Have a heart. Seat-belt-maker Takata is building a new test track in Michigan. Looks like safety pays in more ways than one—the plant will cost $14.6 million and employ 500. The photo is one of several magazine ads the company has published around the world.

$99 billion, $500 per driver. That's the annual cost of motor vehicle crashes in the U.S., says a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data available for the study date from 2005. Imagine what those numbers could be if everyone wore a seat belt.
 

As promised: school bus update. The Alert has promised to update you on the 3-year study of school buses in Alabama. Read this story to see what's being discovered and what it's taking to discover it.  

Read more from the latest issue of the Alliance Alert.