SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions)
The purpose of SADD is to protect lives and to improve the general well being of the school and community. Topics that SADD may address include harassment, as well as tobacco,
drug and alcohol abuse, texting and safe driving.
Texting & Driving Statistics (textinganddrivingsafety.com)
- Twenty-three percent (23%) of auto collisions involved cell phones in 2011.
- At 55 mph if you look at your phone for five seconds, you've driven the length of a football field.
- Texting makes a crash 23 times more likely.
- Teens spend about ten percent (10 %) of their driving time outside of their lane when texting and driving.
- Iowa prohibits all drivers from cell phone use and texting while driving.
- Texting & driving causes 11 teen DEATHS everyday.
- Texting & driving is six times more likely to cause an accident than driving intoxicated.