NOYS Traffic Safety

The NOYS Traffic Safety Working Group aims to serve as the resource center for teen driver safety ideas, behaviors, and projects for NOYS partners.  The Traffic Safety Working Group will provide support on traffic safety policy challenges, program opportunities, fundraising initiatives, responses to current events, teen driver statistics and research, and other issues involving traffic safety as they arise.  In addition, the NOYS Youth Traffic Safety Working Group will monitor traffic safety component issues that affect multiple areas of youth health and safety.

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Global Youth Traffic Safety Month & the Decade of Action

Every day, around the world, 3,500 people leave home and never return because they have been suddenly, violently, killed in a road crash. This epidemic is preventable and partners all around the world are joining forces to address traffic safety. NOYS has teamed up with the UN Decade of Action for Global Road Safety campaign to take National Youth Traffic Safety Month international. NOYS will be providing updates on partnership opportunities for 2012. For more information please send a message to info@noys.org.

NEW PSA Campaign

In an effort to educate young adult drivers about the dangers of reckless driving and curb the behavior of texting while driving, the State Attorneys General and Consumer Protection agencies, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Ad Council are launching a new public service advertising (PSA) campaign nationwide. StopTextsStopWrecks.org is a new campaign website where teens and young adults can find facts about the impact of texting while driving and tips for how to curb the behavior. View the PSA!

Check out National Road Safety Foundation's Teen Kids News!
NRSF produces documentaries, educational programs and public service campaigns for broadcast and use in safety, educational and enforcement programs. NRSF offers its productions free of charge. Find out more at National Road Safety Foundation.

Education Framework for Media Projects Promoting Road Safety for Children and Families

This Road Safety Education Framework is jointly authored by Sesame Workshop and the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP). It is intended as a practical guide for parents, road safety educators and practitioners who are developing content, educational materials and communication strategies to help children better understand the risks associated with travel on or near the roads, and to internalize and implement safer behaviors around roads and vehicles.