[Youth-list] Rell appoints TF on Teen Driving

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Rell Creates Teen Driving Task Force
By GARY LIBOW 
Courant Staff Writer 
5:27 PM EST, November 28, 2007 
 
 
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The governor, following the accident-related deaths of seven teens over the  
past four months, today announced formation of a task force that will look for 
 more effective ways to convince teens to drive safer.

Named to co-chair  the task force are: Robert M. Ward, commissioner of the 
state Department of  Motor Vehicles, and Dr. J. Robert Galvin, commissioner of 
the state Department  of Public Health.

Representatives from law enforcement, insurance,  medicine, driver education 
and school administration will serve on the panel,  along with officials from 
the following state agencies: transportation, public  health, public safety 
and motor vehicles.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell, in a  prepared statement, said the state must act more 
aggressively to boost safety  awareness among young drivers.

Rell has asked for short-term  recommendations over the next two months, and 
long-term strategies over the next  half-year.

The governor called on the panel to examine the effectiveness  of penalties 
associated with unsafe driving by teens, and to formulate new  awareness 
strategies -- aimed at both teens and parents.

Galvin said  state officials must continually strive to make communities 
safer through a  combination of education, awareness and new laws.
Copyright © 2007, _The Hartford Courant_ (http://www.courant.com/) 
 
Dr. Janice M. Gruendel
Governor's Senior Policy Advisor on  Children and Youth
Co-Chair, CT Early Childhood Education Cabinet
Member,  Youth Vision Team & PK-16 Council
Home office:  203-481-9940
Blackberry: 203-824-4766
Mail to: 28 Juniper  Point
Branford, CT 06405

"The people  of Connecticut, and history, will judge us by whether we 
accepted our  stewardship simply to preserve the comfortable status quo or whether we 
seized  it with boldness of purpose. I, for one, am emboldened." Governor M. 
Jodi Rell,  CT State of the State message, 2005



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