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Welcome to the Drive Alive Web site. This site is for parents, teens and businesses in Allen County, Indiana. The site has information that can help parents prepare teen drivers for the road ahead. The goal is to reduce teen deaths on local roads! |
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Drive Alive co-founder Ralph Taylor
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Teens drivers using a cellphone or texting will be breaking the law as of July 1
As of July 1, teens will be
breaking Indiana Law if they use their cell phone for
talking or texting while driving. Governor Daniels recently
signed Senate Bill 16 to reduce the high traffic fatality
rate for teen drivers. Several provisions that take effect
July 1 are aimed at reducing
Teens will get their license a few months later under new law in effect as of July 2010 A new law that will take effect in July 2010 will mean teens will be eligible to get their license on a new timeframe. Currently, teenagers who take driver’s education can get a license at 16 years and 1 month. That will be extended to 16 years and six months. Teens who don’t take driver’s education now can get a license at 16 years and 6 months. They also would have to have 50 hours of driving supervised by someone age 25 or older to get a license. The new law will extend that wait to 16 years and 9 months. |
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distractions
in vehicles. They include banning drivers younger than 18
from talking on cell phones or texting while driving;
extending the period in which new teen drivers’ passengers
are restricted from three months to six months; and
expanding nighttime driving restrictions for the first 180
days.
A
program of the Allen County Coroner's Task Force on Youth-Death
Reduction to prevent youth vehicle deaths. In partnership with Fort
Wayne Healthy Cities Committee, Inc.
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