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Article: Auto safety pays off for area schools
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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There is a sense of relief, and accomplishment, in high schools
across Illinois right now, after new figures show the number of
teens killed in car crashes has been reduced by 50 percent in the
past two years.
In the first nine months of 2007, 127 teenagers died in car
wrecks - compared to 60 this year, according to Secretary of State
Jesse White's office.
Grassroots groups, parents, police, legislators and teens
themselves have come together to tackle the No. 1 killer of
teenagers and, despite the encouraging news, more work needs to be
done, they say.
"It has all worked together. In all my years of working with
government, I have never seen so many agencies work together for a
common ...