I was honored to be asked by the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility to help promote their program for Teen Driver Safety Week.  I Know Everything is a program designed to encourage conversations between parents and their teens to help teens stay safe while behind the wheel.  Please check out my public service announcement below – otherwise known as my first ever vlog! (And don’t ‘cha just loooove the screen shot it chose for the video preview?  Duck face gone wrong?? Also, if it is just a blank screen when you press play, expand it to full screen.)

Please take time this week to have conversations with your kids.  Below are the four questions to get you started.  Perhaps ask one per day and then make up your own! Would love for you to comment with the scenarios you come up with!

The I Know Everything survey results show why these conversations are crucial:

• 25% did NOT know how to handle a passenger who is drinking in the car
• 27% do NOT know how to safely get home when their driver has been drinking
• 38% are NOT sure how to handle a friend distracting them while driving
• Half (53%) of teen drivers say sometimes they find themselves in a situation behind the wheel they are not prepared for.

And I know I said it in the vlog, but it is worth repeating…Motor vehicle crashes remain the number one killer of teenagers ages 15 to 20, even though underage drinking and drunk driving among teens is down across the nation.

Even though it is illegal for people under 21 to drink any alcohol and drive, one-third of all teen drivers killed in vehicle crashes had a .01 BAC or higher in 2011.

Everyone shares the road – teens, adults, law enforcement, first responders – and we believe this education effort will save lives, making the roads safer for all.

Stay safe out there and #JustDrive.  Nothing else!