Saving Our Teen Drivers: Using Aviation Safety Skills on the Roadways: How to Avoid the 13 Most Common Ways Teenage Drivers Kill Themselves

by John H. Loughry

Author John Loughry, a commercial pilot, dissects the 13 most common driving mistakes that kill teenage drivers, and relates them to relevant pilot safety skills. This is a parent's guide to educating... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975326600
• ISBN13: 9780975326602
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Seminee Publishing
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Using Aviation Safety Skills on the Roadways

We have all read text books, instructional publications or technical manuals that are just plain boring. This author's style of intermixing stories from his flying experience keeps the book entertaining and makes it easy to relate to real life experiences. This is not the standard dry, preachy, recitation of the same old driving rules. This book should be manditory reading not only for new drivers but anyone with a less than stellar driving record regardless of age.

What could be more important?

As parents of five young children, my wife and I have decided to make this book required reading prior to allowing our kids to get their permits. These pilot awareness concepts and training techniques are a perfect application for helping all drivers stay safe while on the road.

Writers Notes 2005 Book Award Winner

Highway accidents lead deaths for drivers between the ages of 15 and 20 years, and more than 80% are due to poor decisions wrought from inexperience, peer pressure, and immaturity. Loughry, a commercial pilot, attempts to save our teen drivers by presenting the 13 most common driving errors and the aviation safety skills used to avoid them. Pilots know that that first big mistake can take away your life. Loughry can help avert it.

saving our Teen Drivers

I am a Drivers Education Instructor and have found that this book makes a world of difference for my students. It has helped me to become a better teacher that believes John's message will probably save thousands of lives! !3 Points to remember...don't leace driving to chance! J. Alcarese

An in-depth guide to the hazards of automobile driving

Saving Our Teen Drivers: Using Aviation Safety Skills on the Roadways is a no-nonsense, in-depth guide to the hazards of automobile driving and how to protect oneself from hazards, with especial emphasis on how to teach teenaged children the skills they will need to keep themselves as safe as possible. Written by a commercial pilot with more than 25 years of flying experience, Saving Our Teen Drivers is unique in that it incorporates concepts drilled into aircraft pilots - who must withstand intense responsibilities, scrutiny, and training - and shows how such understanding can be applied to situations that may confront inexperienced drivers. Author John Loughry warns that it is quite possible for a responsible driver to do nothing wrong, obey all the rules and still suffer injury or death due to the disruptive actions of a bad driver. Therefore the key to keeping teen drivers safe is to not only teach them good driving habits, but also to train them how to anticipate and react to threatening behaviors - from staying out of situations that could cause drinking/drugs/drowsiness and driving to mix, to learning how to spot and avoid drunks on the road, to staying cool and focusing on removing oneself from the situation when confronted by viciously aggressive driver. An absolute "must-have" for all households with a teenager ready to get behind the wheel - and fact enthusiastically recommended even to veteran drivers, as a refresher course in how to avoid road dangers before a crisis hits its boiling point and stay cool even if the crisis erupts anyway.