New AAA Website Offers One-of-a-Kind Resources to Empower Parents, Teen Drivers

AAA empowers parents to get involved with their teens’ learning-to-drive process with the launch of its new teen driver safety website, TeenDriving.AAA.com. The interactive site helps parents and teens manage the complex coming-of-age process by providing users with specific information based on where they live and where they are in the learning process – from preparing to drive (pre-permit) through the learner’s permit and solo driving.

The site features AAA StartSmart, a series of online lessons and newsletters based on the National Institutes of Health’s Checkpoints program, which has been proven to help parents improve teen driver safety and is being offered nationally for the first time. Launched this summer, the site also offers an online version of AAA’s Dare To Prepare workshop and lessons from the auto club’s Teaching Your Teen To Drive program, both of which assist families which have a teen who is or soon will be learning to drive.

To assist parents who want to teach their teens to drive, AAA offers an

inexpensive kit called Take the Wheel. The program qualifies as driver’s ed. under Oklahoma’s GDL law and also entitles the teen to receive the standard driver’s ed. discount on auto insurance premiums. AAA Oklahoma’s 40 offices statewide stock the kit and it’s also available at www.AAATakeTheWheel.com or by calling (800) 222-2582.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens, killing nearly 6,000 teens annually, and the risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher for 16- to 19-year-olds than for any other age group. Through safety programs, driver training and legislative efforts, AAA is an active leader in helping to reduce the number of teens injured and killed in vehicle crashes.