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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – This week is National Teen Driver Safety Week, encouraging parents to speech with their teens astir harmless driving habits.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says postulation crashes are a starring origin of decease for teens 15 to 18 years old.
Fresno Police urge parents person conversations with their teens astir the dangers of risky driving.
"I conscionable promote each parents to person the hard speech with your children regarding driving and to get escaped of each the distractions that are retired there," McCray said.
Michael McCray says un-safe behaviors see speeding, texting, and driving nether the influence.
Fresno Police are conducting a postulation information cognition this weekend, focusing connected teen drivers.
"We conscionable privation to marque definite you're harmless and you're doing what you're expected to beryllium doing. And arsenic a young driver, it's truthful important for you to found the close driving habits from a precise young age," Mccray said.
AAA Mountain West Group Spokesperson John Treanor says it's important to signifier harmless driving habits.
"Go implicit scenarios with their kid successful a harmless environment, spell to that parking batch oregon that bare batch oregon that thoroughfare that you know, is going to beryllium harmless to thrust successful and person them really, truly practice," Treanor said.
Being alert of pedestrians and different drivers is besides cardinal to preventing deaths.
"A batch tin hap successful beforehand of you. Just wage attraction if you look guardant and don't look down astatine your telephone oregon what's going connected down you successful the car, you volition beryllium a safer operator by conscionable doing that," Treanor said.
Teen operator information week runs Oct. 19 done 25.
