Week of losing 16: Sixteen teens die each day due to car accidents. We decided that we would pull 16 students out throughout the day at school. A student dressed as a Grim Reaper came to their class and read their obituary. The student wore a dead tag the rest of the week. They sat at the back of the classroom and tried to be invisible. During the week our school of 424 students realized how scary this statistic is because they are in a car everyday.
 
In the U.S. 6,000 youth die every year in car crashes. That is an average of 16 a day. Crashes are the number one cause of death and injury of teens in the U.S. Crashes take more lives of our youth than alcohol, drugs, violence, and suicide. Youth Traffic Safety is no accident and steps can be taken to help protect youth and encourage them to stay safe on the roads.
- Local activities will include the following:
- PSA’s on radio and cable
- A Youth SUMMIT on October 24 from 8:30AM until 12:30PM with three keynotes and breakout sessions at Shallowater High School
- Email blasts to all schools in Region XVII
- Rock Don’t Roll website
- T-Shirts
- Labels placed on pizza boxes and fast food containers.
Shallowater encourages everyone who can increase the awareness about this effort to get involved – auto sales establishments, car mechanic shops, local law enforcement, stores that teens frequently shop, fast food places, schools, places of worship, radio stations, all local media, etc.
- Visit www.noys.org to learn more about the safety campaign
- National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) is a nonprofit membership coalition representing national youth and youth serving organizations that focus on youth safety and health.
For immediate assistance or to arrange interviews, call:
Student council sponsor:
Carleigh Smith
Shallowater High School
csmith@shallowaterisd.net
Student chair:
Roger Lira
Rogerlira22@gmail.com
   
iTune out Distractions posters
Boys and Girls Club: Some of our students went to the Boys and Girls club to discuss the importance of wearing seatbelts anytime you are in a vehicle. We played games and made learning about vehicle safety fun.
Magnets: We made Rock, Don’t Roll Magnets and distributed them to teachers and teens. The students put them on their lockers for everyone to see.
 
 
Harvest Festival
Email Blasts: We sent out email blasts across Texas. These featured our slogans: Slow your ROLL, Silence or be SILENCED, Don’t be ejected; be protected. We sent them to other student council districts, who in turn, posted them in their high schools.
Harvest Festival: During the Harvest Festival we passed out flyers with stats, air fresheners, magnets, and accident car kits.
   
Football game announcements: We had the announcers at football games make pre-game announcements to encourage safe driving. We also had these announcements sent to other schools, which in turn, made them at their home games. Here are some examples of the announcements.
In a typical month more Americans die in traffic than were killed by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
- To explain that clearer,16 teens die each day in traffic related deaths.
- Shallowater High School Student Council wants to lower that statistic.
- Their campaign, Rock, Don’t ROLL is designed to remind all drivers to wear seatbelts; slow down; drive smart, not aggressively; and NEVER drive while impaired.
The number one cause of death for youth is auto crashes, and each year we lose over 6,000 youth as a result of auto crashes. Rock, Don’t Roll is Shallowater’s awareness education campaign to promote youth traffic safety. We urge everyone tonight to drive safely after the ballgame.
Student Council Fall Convention: Our students presented the Rock, Don’t Roll Campaign to our district during breakout sessions. We are recruiting other schools to join our campaign and help raise awareness and lower teen accidents.
 
 
Chalk it up
Chalk it up: We had classes in the school come up with slogans and pictures that encouraged safe driving. We let all classes who participated draw their slogan and pictures on the sidewalk around the school. We then voted on the best slogan and gave that class safety kits for their vehicles. This raised awareness, by the classes researching the statistics and viewing the “chalk work” daily.
   
- We gave air fresheners to insurance agencies to give to new teen drivers. This will begin to raise awareness from the time they get insurance on their vehicle.
   
- We sent air fresheners to the DPS Driver License Offices. They are going to distribute these to drivers getting their permits and their drivers license.
- We also gave Rock, Don’t Roll air fresheners to local driving schools. They are going to distribute them to anyone taking the drivers education course and teens taking defensive driving.
- Lubbock Driving School
- Hub City Driving School
  
- We gave air fresheners to all of the staff in our school.
 
- During pep rallies, we threw air fresheners to the crowd during the month of October. The drama class also preformed a Stomp routine during a pep rally. “Stomp Out Destructive Driving”
  
 
- We put Rock, Don’t Roll air fresheners on vehicles in the high school parking lot in Shallowater on October 10th.
 
- We sent air fresheners to 63 other schools to distribute them to teen drivers on October 15th.
   
- We distributed Rock, Don’t Roll air fresheners to car dealerships. They are going to give these to teens purchasing or test driving vehicles.
- Scoggin-Dickey
- Alderson Cadillac
- Spirit Chrysler Plymouth Jeep
- Frank Brown Auto & Truck Ranch
- Shamrock Chevrolet
- Alderson Lexus
- Mercedes-Benz of Lubbock
- Frontier Dodge
- Gene Messer Auto Group
- Platinum Auto Sales
- Saturn of Lubbock
    
Rock, Don’t Roll Air Fresheners: We had air fresheners for vehicles made with our logo on them. With the air fresheners hanging on their mirrors, they will be more aware of the dangers of destructive driving. Maybe this will decrease the number of accidents. We attached statistics and facts about Rock, Don’t Roll on the air fresheners and distributed them to schools, the community, car dealerships, DPS Driver License offices, and Driving Schools.
 
S.A.V.E.: We and ten other schools attended the SAVE safe driving SUMMIT held in Lubbock. We met with Insurance agents and DPS officers. We were able to talk to other schools and get ideas about how to prevent destructive driving.
  
  
S.A.V.E. meeting
 
Stickers on Merchandise
WEBSITE: We created a website to inform teens about destructive driving. Teens were
able to go to this website to get more information.
Freewebs.com/rock-don’t-roll
Myspace and Facebook: Please be our friend on Myspace and Facebook and learn more about teen safe driving. Look up Rock, Don’t Roll Shallowater.
Businesses sponsoring us:
- These businesses handed out stickers to their customers on merchandise that they sold or on statements. They began putting our stickers out at the beginning of October and will continue through December.
 Drive Safe!
Freewebs.com/rock-dont-roll
- Sonic, People’s Bank, First State Bank, Fast Stop, Dollar General, Shallowater Clinic, Shallowater Pharmacy, Circle Burger, Grimes and Grimes DDS, Stars and Stripes Drive-In, Shallowater Concession Stand, Band Boosters.
 
 
 
Stall Stats: We made “Stall Stats” and placed them in the bathrooms at the high school. This gave our students a chance to read the stats and know how much they are effected every day.
Stall Stats
- 82% of teens accidents are caused by driver error.
- It is estimated that 16 people die from a car crash every day in America
- The important thing to consider is the number of deaths occurring every day, excluding the people involved in car accidents and sustaining severe personal injuries.
- The main causes for car accidents are reckless and negligent driving and alcohol. Inexperience coupled with irresponsible behavior and a lack of respect for the safety precautions are the main causes for such a high number of teenage car accidents.
- Many people talk while driving, which might prove to be fatal because it distracts the driver from the road.
 
Stall Stats
  
Stall Stats
Skits: The drama classes volunteered to write skits that deal with destructive driving and making the right choices. They performed these skits for the school and at the S.A.V.E. safe driving SUMMIT.
 
  
Drama Class Skit
T-Shirts: We designed t-shirts to sale to raise awareness. We have begun taking orders in our High School and will get student councils from other schools to sale the shirts as a fund raiser to raise awareness in their area also. On the front of the shirt there is a huge 16. The students who designed the shirt thought that others would ask, what is the 16 for? By raising their curiosity, we will be able to inform more people about these frightening statistics for young drivers.
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BACK:
Don’t Get Your Face SMASHED!: We had a competition to see who could create the best flyer to raise awareness about some of the dangers of destructive driving. Out of 366 flyers created and hung around the school, the winner was “Don’t get your face SMASHED!” flyer. One student made photo copies of their face with the saying don’t get your face smashed, buckle up! We placed these on vehicles in our parking lots.
   
Tailgate party: We hosted a tailgate party before home football games to hand out information on how to prevent destructive driving, air fresheners, Allstate accident kits, and food. We had the other teams fans join in the fun also. This occurred through the month of October.
   
  
Tailgate Party
   
Tailgate Party
  
Tailgate Party
 
Tailgate Party
 
Tailgate Party
8:25-8:40: Instructions
8:40-9:10: Douglass Freetag
9:10-9:15: Break
9:15-9:40: Breakout Session
9:40-9:45: Break
9:45-10:15: First Responders
10:15-10:20: Break
10:20-10:45: Breakout Session
10:45-10:50: Break
10:50-11:15: Breakout Session
11:15-11:20: Break
11:20-11:50: Dr. Border
11:50-12:05: Evaluations
Welcome to the 2008 Shallowater High School S.U.M.M.I.T. by Shallowater’s Rock Don’t Roll campaign sponsored by NOYS. This year’s schedule is printed above. Today’s S.U.M.M.I.T. will feature three keynote sessions, we have brought in speakers from local organizations and from across the South Plains. They include a district attorney, a member from first responders, and a local administrator. We want each of you to understand that today’s sessions do not focus on drinking and driving alone but, many other aspects and issues that we teenagers face everyday (Myspace safety, STD’s, Various Driving issues, Drug and alcohol use, Health issues, etc.) Below are some of the highlights of the breakout sessions. I encourage each of you to stress the importance of today’s S.U.M.M.I.T. to your students and to help them realize that the issues discussed today are of mature matter and most should not be taken lightly. Thank you for making today possible.
Sincerely,
Macie Williams
Keynote Speakers
Douglass Freetag: He is a prosecutor from the District Attorney’s office. He will speak about the cases he has encountered that deal with destructive driving. He will help educate us about the consequences of our actions.
John Gonzalez: He is speaking about the 1st Responders Memorial, which is dedicated to recognizing local, state, and federal- Fire, EMS, and Law Enforcement agencies that have members who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Also he will speak about preventing destructive driving and becoming one less statistic.
  
Dr. Kenny Border: He is our principal at Shallowater Middle School. He is speaking about the adversities he overcame growing up and how he changed his life to become the person he is today.
 
Breakout Sessions
Coach Hanna – He spoke about a destructive driving accident that killed his daughter. He told students how his life and the lives of others were affected by his daughter choosing not to wear her seatbelt. She was only a teenager when she had the accident.
Craig Williams – Drugs and how we are effected while driving. Are you really okay to drive?
Leroy Beavers – Drugs that are on the streets today. He discussed new drugs to students and their effects on you and your judgement.
TCADD – TCADD Trailer and information about the accident and how to prevent destructive driving.
Glenna Chisum – Blood Donations and how they help save lives.
 
Gloria Caballero – Volunteer Center of Lubbock.
Breedlove – Feeding the hungry and how we can save lives.
Tammy Blackburn – Teen Pregnancy.
 
Captain Joe Longway – Driving Statistics.
Sergeant Jay Jones– Drugs.
Sharon Shoulders – Teen Pregnancy and STDs.
Sharon Shoulders – Teen Pregnancy and STDs.
 
Sharon Shoulders – Teen Pregnancy and STDs.
 
Lt. Chris Heine- Statistics on our offender population.
 
Cindy Couch- Accident involving her brother who was under the influence and killed a woman. She told students how the accident affected the victim’s family as well as hers.
 
Lt. Chris Heine- Statistics on our offender population.
 
Cindy Couch- Accident involving her brother who was under the influence and killed a woman. She told students how the accident affected the victim’s family as well as hers.
 
Tammy Roberts – Date Rape.
 
Wendy McNabb – Drinking and Driving Experiences.
 
Officer Hurst – Accidents involving teen drivers.
Felicia Lefuente – Women’s Protective Services.
Fox 34 news came and covered our SUMMIT on October 24th. The footage and interviews were aired at 4pm, 6pm, and 9pm. You can view it at the following site.
http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7720861&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
 
  
- Car Accident Kits that were handed out. These were donated by Allstate.
Please View Our Photos from our Fall Harvest Activity at:
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