Safe driving is a team effort. Encouraging your friends to drive safely at all times makes a big difference to making our roads safer, and sparing the lives of friends and loved ones.
Ways YOU Can Get Involved:
- Bring this campaign to your own school!
- Come up with your own plan/ ideas and distribute the bracelets any way that you want (As long as we get the pledge cards back so we can add the names to the master pledge sheet)
- Sell bracelets at your school as a fundraiser.
- Raise $ for a club, team or even for your Prom!
- Give them away to anyone who signs the pledge; help us spread awareness and warn of the dangers of texting while driving.
Any other ideas, interest or involvement is welcome and encouraged.
Please email Jason@plg-pllc.com to learn more and become involved with the TADD project.
Last fall one of my lacrosse players lost his life in a texting related car accident. He was driving while texting. We are selling t-shirts in his memory with the slogan “Head up for Eagle.” Eagle was his nickname. I would love to incorporate the whole TADD thing at our home game on April 23.
I run the SADD chapter @ Armada High School in Michigan & am interested in purchasing some of the wrist bands that are shown on this site. We are actually focusing our January Monthly Awareness Campaign on this subject & I would really like to incorporate the bands in our efforts. At your earliest convenience, please forward me a price list of such bands.
Thanks so much & Thank You for sharing such an important message!!
M. Bobcean
AHS SADD Advisor
my friend was on her way home with her mom and this girl was textin while driving and got in there lane hit them head on and my friend was pronounced dead at the sene she was 15.
I am a member of the city council in Torrington, Connecticut and a liaison to the Mayor’s Committee on Youth. The kids on our committee wish to educate, advocate and promote a strong message regarding distracted driving. I am interested in including your bracelets in their campaign. Can you please advise how I can incorporate the same in the Mayor’s Committee campaign?
I am a SADD Advisor and we are having a program May 2nd on texting and driving. Looking for a pledge the students can sign about not texting and driving in the future. Do you have one you could email me. thank you for your help.
kim
We NEED your help saving lives. Cell phones are something we can’t live without. Texting & Driving will cause you to NOT live anymore. Text Tastefully.Please take the TADPOLE Pledge today!! http://toadd.org/tadpole/pledge
i just lost one of my friends while he was texting and driving little did i kno he was driving when i texted him….. miss u forever kh
We are currently working on a Festival in the Boca Raton Fl area at thier new UF stadium. We are with the Justin Bieber group that is working towards the prevention of text and driving nationally. You can see that at http://www.phoneguard.com We are contacting all schools on a national level to get behind this movement. The festival is April 28 2012 and we would like to hear from someone from your group in helping us make this a reality. You can reach me by email and I will send my phone number from there. We are pressed for time and it looks like you have your ducks in a row to make this happen. Look forward to hearing from you.
David Carter
Texting and driving is like the equivalent to driving after having 4 beers. Your eyes are off the road for at least 4 seconds, and within that 4 seconds, SO much can happen. A car infront of you could maybe slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a kitten or squirrel or something, and you wouldn’t realize they stopped… so you would run into them. Imagine how dumb you would feel. It’s not worth it.
I’m curious if I could submit an article to you guys to post on your blog as a guest blogger. I just wrote a paper about the dangers of texting while driving for my college English class. I am also about to start doing a speech on it for my communications class. Would you accept an article from me to post on your blog? If you would like that, could you go to my blog at aguideforwomen.blogspot.com and contact me under the “Contact Me” tab. I don’t want to give my email out to everyone here. I would really love doing this. I was going to post it on my blog, but I think it would be more useful here. Please let me know either way. I could also post a link to your page on my blog if you would like. Thanks!
I believe an effective way to communicate the dangers involved in distracted driving is by writing “mobituaries” for those killed. A listing of mobituaries would clearly bring the reality to light.
I want to get my school more involved with Teens Against Distracted Driving. And I was wondering what I need to do to give braclets to anyone that signs the pledge or sell them as a fundraiser.. Umm please email me and Thank You..
You should get involved with the Higher Education Community!
i am a mother of 4 with 2 of them now working on getting their drivers license. I am interested in getting the bracelets to use as a fundraiser for my daughters softball team and for my sons football team. PLease let me know how I can get the bracelets
Please let me know how I can receive the bracelets for fundraisers
Hi all, we have developed a patent pending app that can be installed on phones to curve texting and driving. It workings by putting the phone in standby mode while the vehicle is in motion and cannot be deactivated without a password. So a parent can install on their child’s phone and stops the ability to text while driving. The phone will still notify during incoming texts but cannot be responded to or read until the vehicle speed has reduced below 15 MPH and stopped. It can be deactivated by entering a password if the person is not the driver. If anyone has more interest in this app you may contact us at drivingalive@gmail.com
I was driving home one day and got a text message, all the sudden i ran off the road i wasn’t hurt the car wasnt either but it scared me to death so i will never be texting and driving again
Please let ME know about getting the bracelets for some fundraising and awarness thank you.
I just graduated this past June. On Christmas Eve of 2009, one of the wrestlers at my school got into a car accident. He was pronounced dead at the scene. In October of the following year, my Junior year, one of my really good friends got into a car accident with her boyfriend. They didn’t see the truck in front of them, as they were driving at night, and she was killed immediately. Her boyfriend survived, though. Ever heard of Rachel Scott? The first victim of the Colombine shooting? How her family promoted “Rachel’s Challenge” in many schools? Natassia and Jonathon were our school’s Rachels. They were kind. They got along with everyone. They were just, the best people. There is one more person who was probably the biggest Rachel in our whole community. Michael Vollmer. He was one of my family friends. He didn’t die from an accident, but he still stood next to Natassia and Jonathon. He was one of the best. Some say he died in his sleep from an enlarged heart. Kind of ironic, isn’t it? What had happened to these 3 wonderful people, makes me think about how easy it is to lose your life. I’m actually too scared to drive, but knowing that’s the only way of following my dreams and traveling, I have to learn. Texting and driving isn’t a joke. I was almost in an accident with one of my best friends not too long ago. We were at a stoplight, and she was moving forward a little. There was a truck in front of us with 2, maybe 3, little kids. If she wouldn’t have thrown her phone in my lap and stomped on her breaks, someone could be seriously injured or even dead right now. Don’t take your life for granted. Don’t to stupid things while you’re driving. Be extra careful on the streets, whether you’re driving or walking. Life’s too short. Live it well, but smart.
I just spread the word to everyone I saw in town
Ashley Peroni I totaly agree with that last part. Life is really too short to be going out here acting crazy, not paying attention and getting killed due to texting and driving. So to all the texters out there, Put those phones down and walk another day. So save your lives and dont text and drive. please, life is to presous to waste, take the pledge, pledge to not text and drive. Have a chance to enjoy life, and be safe.
Hello,
My name is Mercedes Jackson I am a senior at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff majoring in Criminal Justice which I am also the president of the Criminal Justice club. we would like to have a “Dont Text and Drive” event on our campus and at a local high school in our community. So we are asking you all if you could help us in any kind of way for our event. We decided to do this type of event, because a student at our university passed away last school year as a result of texting and driving. So we just want to inform our peers and community about how dangerous and serious this issue is. You can aslo contact me at 901-340-1697.
Thanks
I just recently lost one of my best friends to a distracted driver who was intoxicated. My friend just got a brand new motorcycle, which he had been working 3 jobs in order to pay for college and the bike. He was pulling out of his driveway and the truck came out of no where and hit and killed him on impact. DON’T TEXT AND DRIVE PEOPLE OR DRIVE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE!!!
My SADD (Students Against Destructive Decicions) Officers will be National Presenters at the SADD National Conference in Orlando. Would you be able to send us 500 hundred bracelets and the pledge cards. We will use this as a part of our presentations. We will mail the cards back to you. Approx. 1000 teens from all over the US will be there. Whatever we don’t use I will mail it all back to you. Dr. Catherine Webb Marquette Catholic High 219 East 4th Street Alton, IL 62002
We are working on pennies, so this would be a Godsend.
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