What’s the best gift you can give Mom for Mother’s Day? A promise.
Do your part to put an end to distracted driving. Below is EndDD.org’s checklist of simple steps you can take to avoid distracted driving and to protect yourself, your friends, family and others from preventable crashes.
1️⃣Drive without reading or sending texts, snapchatting, using the internet, Facebook or social media of any kind.
2️⃣Call/text before I start driving to let parents, friends and others know when I’ll arrive.
3️⃣Program autoreplies to texts and calls so others know you are not responding because you are driving.
4️⃣Wait to text or call others until they have stopped driving.
5️⃣Pull over to a safe location to check texts, social media, or listen to voice mail.
6️⃣Deputize my passenger when I am driving to text or make calls for me.
7️⃣When alone, turn my cell phone off before starting to drive.
8️⃣Stop texting, or end phone conversations with others once I learn they are driving.
9️⃣Pull over to a safe location or wait until I am finished driving to eat or apply make-up.
1️⃣0️⃣Pull over to a safe location or wait until I am finished driving to adjust music, scroll through I-Pods, I -phones or similar devices.
1️⃣1️⃣When being driven by a distracted driver ask the driver to drive safer.
1️⃣2️⃣As a passenger, share the responsibility for arriving safely with my driver and offer help so my driver does not drive distracted.