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Ride Like A Friend. Drive Like You Care
Ride Like A Friend. Drive Like You Care (RLAF) is a school-based initiative focused on the relationship between teen drivers and their teen passengers. Improving the safety of teen driving with peer passengers is at the heart of RLAF. The program aims to 1) build awareness about teen drivers’ motor vehicle crash (MVC) risks involving passengers in their car and 2) establish beliefs and behaviors among teen drivers and passengers that promote safe driving.
Designed as a peer-to-peer in-school campaign, RLAF engages teens thoughtfully on the topic of driving safety and passengers. RLAF also provides a sense of empowerment and responsibility as to their role in the car, whether as a driver or passenger.
National Teen Driver Safety Week
National Teen Driver Safety Week (NTDSW) was established by Congress in 2007 to focus attention on the nation's epidemic of teen car crashes and to find solutions to lower teen drivers' fatal crash risk. The initiative was supported by the traffic safety experts at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance Companies®. This year NTDSW takes place October 17 to 23.
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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was founded in 1855 as the nation’s first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric health care professionals and pioneering major research initiatives, In the traffic safety arena, the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP works to reduce death and injury from young driver-related crashes through scientific research and outreach. For more information, visit http://www.research.chop.edu/programs/injury/.
State Farm Insurance Companies®
State Farm® insures more cars and homes than any other insurer in the U.S., is the leading insurer of watercraft and is also a leading insurer in Canada. State Farm's 17,000 agents and 67,000 employees serve over 77 million auto, fire, life and health policies in the United States and Canada, and more than 1.9 million bank accounts. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies. State Farm is ranked No. 32 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies. For more information, please visit statefarm.com® or in Canada statefarm.ca®.
