Local Epidemic of Young Driver Auto Deaths Reinforces Need for Education
Free Clinic Offers Young Women Safe Driving Strategies, Auto Care Basics
SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 3 -- The following is being issued by Safe Smart Women:
WHAT: Fatality data show that young drivers continue to be over- represented in fatal crashes. In the Washington, DC area alone, more than a dozen young people have been killed on the roads in recent weeks. In the ten-year span between 1992 and 2002, young women's fatal crash rates escalated by 42 percent at the same time that crash rates for young men declined. To help educate and empower this vulnerable and oft-overlooked population, Safe Smart Women (S2W) is hosting a free CarCare Clinic open to all area young women and their parents. The Clinic will offer hands-on opportunities to learn safe driving tactics and under- the-hood auto care from experts. AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW: Lizzie Nimmich -- Student Advisor, Safe Smart Women A.J. Willingham -- Student Advisor, Safe Smart Women Gordon Booth -- Chief Instructor, DriveTrain Kristin Backstrom -- Executive Director, Safe Smart Women WHEN: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. The Clinic will commence with introductory remarks, and will be followed by hands-on training in the service bay led by six subject-matter experts. WHERE: CarMax, 45210 Towlern Place, Sterling, VA Directions: Exit 9B (Rt. 28N) off Dulles Toll Road. Location is 3 miles north of Toll Road. ABOUT: S2W educates young women on the basics of car maintenance and on strategies for safer driving. S2W reaches young women drivers through its free CarCare Clinics and online at http://www.s2w.org/.