Student drivers have graduated to official drivers

Posted on October 26, 2018
More teen drivers hit the road everyday(WJBC File Photo)

 

By Dave Dahl

Every year, a new crop of 15- and 16-year-olds is on the road. Secretary of State Jesse White says Illinois roads are safer, and people are noticing.

“A study by Wallethub ranked Illinois as one of the top teen driving programs in the nation,” he said at a Chicago teen safety fair this week. “We are proud of the fact that, through our graduated driver’s license program, there has been a 51 percent reduction in teen traffic fatalities. Parents have to have 50 hours in the car with them, including ten hours at night; and only one (passenger) in the automobile for the first one year period of time.”

White took part this week in a teen safety fair in Chicago – it included a new video from his office in which teens play with their cell phones in the car and then crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Z-hevlsuQ&feature=youtu.be

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