Philadelphia Car Accident Lawyer Blog

When I went to high school, driver’s ed was a requirement and made me a much safer driver. Unfortunately, driver’s ed classes which were once a mainstay in high school have become almost non-existent in suburban Pennsylvania high schools as they have in high schools around the country. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration and the Pennsylvania Department of Education dropped driver’s education from its list of priority programs when federal funding disappeared. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2008, approximately 3,500 people in the United States ages 15 to 19 were killed in car accidents with more than 350,000 seriously injured. Teen drivers incur more fatalities and injuries per mile than any other age group. A spokesman for MidAtlantic AAA, Katherine Rossy, noted that AAA would like to see driver’s ed reestablished as federal priority so that states could implement standardized courses increasing behind the wheel training. The experienced Philadelphia car accident lawyers at Reiff and Bily are committed to motorist safety and call for re-instituting driver’s ed in our high schools.