Roswell, Centennial High Schools Receive Grant To Promote Safe Driving

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Roswell, GA -- Nine schools in the Fulton County School System have received Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) grants from the Georgia Office of Highway Safety.

The grant will enhance SADD chapters throughout the district with “the idea that student input into the solution will help alleviate the problem of teen driver fatalities in Georgia,” the school system said.

The grant allows the district to receive up to $45,000 to fund SADD activities, including grants of $2,500 each to Alpharetta High School, Centennial High School, Chattahoochee High School, Creekside High School, Independence High School, Langston Hughes High School, McClarin High School, Northview High School and Roswell High School.

SADD chapters are designed to address drinking and driving among teens in Fulton County high schools. The grant funds will help schools establish or maintain a SADD chapter; complete a minimum of two safety belt checks; host ghost-out, crash car event, or safe prom and graduation activities; provide leadership training to SADD chapter members; and support drug prevention activities.

Drivers ages 15-19 have a higher rate of crashes, injuries and fatalities than adult and elderly drivers, with car crashes remaining the number one cause of death for teens. In 2012, there were an estimated 156 crash-related deaths of drivers ages 15-20.

That number represents 13 percent of all traffic fatalities in Georgia and an overall decrease from 17 percent in 2007.

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