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Dealing with Driving Distractions
Objectives: Youth who complete the lesson can
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Identify factors leading to inattention or distracted driving
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Demonstrate strategies for dealing with distractions
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Recognize components of defensive driving in driver safety
Activities
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Warning! Distractions and Inattention
Youth and parents define the elements of distracted driving, identifying thoughts, feelings, and actions that can distract the driver. Participants learn that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can independently, or jointly distract driving, and recognize how each influences safe driving practices.
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Recognizing and Dealing with Distractions
In this activity, teens learn how driving behaviors can easily become poor driving habits. Youth and parents learn about common driving distractions and how easily those distractions can become habits; such as talking on cell phones, eating or drinking while driving, talking with friends or singing to the radio. Each of these driving distractions take attention away from driving and can easily lead to a crash. Participants role play driving scenarios to explore aspects of self-control and how it can lead to conscious, attentive driving
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Defensive Driving: What's It All About
Youth learn that that it is often easier and safer to be proactive in our driving behaviors that to try and avoid a crash once the vehicle is out of control. In this activity, teens learn the important skill of proactive decision making; determining what could lead to driver distraction, and devising a plan to avoid such situations.
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Parent
Lessons
Parents are instructed to complete at least one parent lesson before the next session. Each lesson provides parents the opportunity to share personal experiences, learn safe driving skills with their youth, and practice on-the-road driving.
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