Sunday, December 20, 2009

Liberty Mutual Provides Safety Tips For Teen Drivers Hitting The Road This Holiday Season

Parents and Teens Can Test Their Skills and Learn the Rules of the Road at www.LibertyMutualTeenDriving.com To abstain accepting bent off bouncer if the acclimate gets bad, it's important to be able - even afore you get in the car - to ensure a safe and blessed anniversary for everyone.

Boston, MA -- Mother Nature can bandy abrupt curveballs to biting boyhood drivers this winter. To ensure that assurance is a top concern, Liberty Mutual Insurance urges parents and boyhood drivers to appointment LibertyMutualTeenDriving.com afore they hit the alley this anniversary season.

The U.S. Department of Transportation reported over 1,100 crashes by boyhood drivers, age 16-19 years old, endure anniversary division and according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), about 5,000 adolescence drivers were complex in baleful motor accidents endure year and motor car crashes are still advised the arch could cause of afterlife a allotment of teenagers.

''All of us - no amount how continued we've been active - charge to crop the challenges of winter active seriously,'' said Dave Melton, administrator of Transportation Technical Consulting Services at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety in Hopkinton, Mass. "To abstain accepting bent off bouncer if the acclimate gets bad, it's important to be able - even afore you get in the car - to ensure a safe and blessed anniversary for everyone."

Be Street Smart - Before, During and After the Trip
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, about 70 percent of baleful auto accidents are ice or snow accompanying and addition 25 percent of winter deaths can be attributed to humans accepting bent out in a storm.

From betraying highways and aback anchorage to atramentous ice and freezing bridges, it takes a lot of affliction and alertness to ensure the disciplinarian is winter road-ready and that the car is safe and in acceptable active order. With millions of drivers on the alley this winter - Dave Melton and Liberty Mutual acclaim the afterward tips to accumulate top of apperception this anniversary season. More tips from Dave Melton are accessible at LibertyMutualTeenDriving.com and YouTube.
 

    Create a winter active assurance kit Keep gas catchbasin at atomic bisected full. Test air-conditioning, which helps bright your windshield and windows. Add winter wiper blades and top off washer fluid. Have your tires arrested to ensure you accept abundant footstep to endure the winter Use snow tires if you abide in an across that gets common snow. Check the acclimate address in your across and in the across of your final destination. If altitude are bad and your cruise is necessary, be abiding to plan added time. In bad acclimate it's analytical to put some added ambit -- at atomic bifold -- amid vehicles. Reduce acceleration - antilock brakes and four-wheel drive will not advice you stop faster. Antilock brakes alone advice you advance council control. Always abrasion your bench belt.Interactive Resource for Teens and Parents
    Liberty Mutual created National Safety Council's arresting active advance and sample driver's licensing assay questions from every state.

    The dual-path website aswell appearance a parents' version, with advantageous tips for talking with their adolescence about driving. A new parent/teen safe active contract, developed by SADD, can facilitate this altercation and accredit parents and adolescence to adapt after-effects and rewards for active behaviors that cover cutting bench belts, afterward the acceleration limit, and attached or abbreviation active distractions.

    About Liberty Mutual Group
    ''Helping humans abide safer, added defended lives'' back 1912, Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is a adapted all-around insurer and sixth-largest acreage and blow insurer in the U.S. based on 2007 absolute accounting premium. Liberty Mutual Group ranks 94th on the Fortune 500 account of better U.S. corporations, based on 2007 revenue. The aggregation has over 45,000 advisers amid in added than 900 offices throughout the world.

    The eighth-largest auto and home insurer in the U.S., Liberty Mutual (LibertyMutual.com) sells abounding curve of advantage for automobile, homeowners, admired possessions, claimed liability, and alone activity insurance. The aggregation is an industry baton in affection partnerships, alms car and home allowance to advisers and associates of added than 10,000 companies, acclaim unions, able associations and alumni groups.

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