Making our roads safer for everyone.
Safe Roads Alliance was formed in 2006 as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting safer driving through education and advocacy.
We provide educational services to all drivers on various aspects of driving safety, including: distracted driving, driving safety for teen drivers and their parents, speeding, sharing the roads with pedestrians, cyclists, and other motorists.
Safe Roads Alliance developed The Parent's Supervised Driving Program in an effort to reach out to parents of teens who hold a Learner's Permit. Getting enough of the right kind of experience during this phase of driving has shown to be a critical factor in reducing teen crash rates. Teen drivers with an awareness of the importance of road safety, become safer adult drivers. Parental involvement is an important component of that effort.
Safe Roads Alliance has also partnered with End Distracted Driving (EndDD.org) to develop an in-classroom program for grades 2 ‒ 6 on the topic of distracted driving. Our KIDS SPEAKING UP FOR ROAD SAFETY PROGRAM introduces students to the concept of distraction and how it affects us in our daily lives. The lesson teaches communication skills to help students speak up effectively and respectfully when their adult driver is distracted and when they feel unsafe as a car passenger.
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About Safe Roads Alliance
Safe Roads Alliance was formed in 2006 as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to saving lives through better driving. Safe Roads provides educational services to all drivers on different aspects of driving safety, including: Distracted Driving, issues confronting teen drivers, and sharing the road with vulnerable road users. To register for the Road Safety Relay, click here.
About CMT
Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) is the world’s largest telematics service provider. Its mission is to make the world’s roads and drivers safer. The company’s AI-driven platform, DriveWell™, gathers sensor data from millions of IoT devices — including smartphones, proprietary Tags, connected vehicles, dashcams, and third-party devices — and fuses them with contextual data to create a unified view of vehicle and driver behavior. Companies from the personal and commercial auto insurance, automotive, rideshare, personal safety, wireless, auto retail, and financial services industries use insights from CMT’s platform to power their risk assessment, safety, claims, and driver improvement programs. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in Budapest, Chennai, Seattle, and Tokyo, CMT serves millions of people through 80 programs in 17 countries, including 21 of the top 25 US auto insurers.
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About the New Hands-Free Law
For more info about this law, email [email protected] or visit www.mass.gov/handsfree
Our Educational Programs:
1. Kids Speaking Up for Road Safety Program.
Safe Roads Alliance has partnered with End Distracted Driving (EndDD.org) to develop a 45-60 minute in-classroom lesson—for grades 2‒3, 4–5, and 6—on the topic of distracted driving. The lesson introduces students to the concept of how being distracted affects us in our daily lives and how students can apply that knowledge to situations when they or others are distracted. The lesson also teaches communication skills to help students speak up effectively and respectfully when their adult driver is distracted.
Why is this program necessary?
In the United States, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional death for people ages four to twenty-four. Driving distractions are serious and have become an increasingly problematic issue, particularly with our addictive use of smartphones. A recent study indicates that parents are regularly driving in a distracted state with their children in the car. As described in a 2018 article in The Journal of Pediatrics (McDonald, et al, 2018), researchers found that among a group of 760 parents/caregivers of 4-10 year olds, in the 3 months prior to the study 47% talked on a hand-held phone, 52.2% talked on a hands-free phone, 33.7% read texts, 26.7% sent texts, and 13.7% used social media while driving with their child in the vehicle. Children are being exposed to heightened crash risks by their parents and others, and the goal of this program is to help them recognize distracted driving and to give them tools to effectively speak up when it occurs. As our children will be the next generation of drivers, it is critical to teach them early about the importance of focused driving. The sad reality is this: among drivers ages 16‒19, the frequency of crashes caused by distracted driving skyrockets to nearly 60%.
Go here for more information and to register for the program materials.
Want to bring this program to your school? Email [email protected]
2. The Parent's Supervised Driving Program
We also developed an app to help families track their driving experience together and to keep safety tips top of mind. The RoadReady app offers parents and teens an easy, educational and convenient way to log the state required supervised driving time with the click of a button. Find out more information about RoadReady here, and download in the Apple Store or Google Play.
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