PLN 2

Today for my PLN I read an article from the Denver post called Teen traffic deaths down in Colorado, and what matters from this is that teen car accident deaths are down and that means that they are started to realize that they need to drive responsibly. It stated that

Last year, 43 teens were killed in motor-vehicle crashes in Colorado, a 34 percent drop from 2006. In that year, 66 teen drivers and passengers — ages 16 to 20 — were killed, according to data compiled by the Colorado Department of Transportation. Colorado teen motor-vehicle deaths are down 60 percent from a high of 107 teens killed in 2002.

Still, safety officials are concerned about teenagers consistently ranking among those least likely to buckle up. Of the 43 teens drivers and passengers killed in Colorado last year, 27 (63 percent) were not wearing seat belts.

That is a pretty big drop but still more than 60% of the ones who died last year were not wearing seat belts. Even though it is a small number maybe if they were wearing their seat belts they still would have been here. I think that we should enforce seatbelt laws a lot more and make it a lot harder to get away with not wearing your seat belt. This relates to my English class because a couple of students and I did a PSA about teens and distractions while they are driving. It was about how it causes a lot of the accidents that teens are involved with. If they would eliminate distractions and focus on driving maybe that number would be a lot less.