From donating bicycle helmets to rewarding cities in the Carolinas with the safest traffic records, the Carolina Motor Club Foundation for Traffic Safety provides education, assistance and recognition annually.
With more than 2,500 traffic deaths annually in the Carolinas, carnage on our highways is an unacknowledged health epidemic that kills more people locally each year than the total of those who have died from SARS, Legionnaire’s Disease or Asian Bird Flu.
Thanks to the AAA Carolinas Board of Directors and AAA members, the AAA Carolinas Traffic Safety Foundation in the past year has been active in numerous traffic safety campaigns in North and South Carolina.
An Active Traffic Foundation
• Creating a graphic traffic safety video with statements from survivors, family members and friends of those who have died in traffic crashes in South Carolina.
• Conducting Traffic Safety Days at AAA Carolinas offices to promote education on child passenger safety seats, the best way for senior citizens to position themselves in their vehicle and inspecting vehicles for safety defects.
• Donating bicycle helmets to communities to promote safe bicycling.
• Supporting safe traffic events at interstate rest stops for motorists traveling on holidays.
• Making speeches to various groups on traffic safety issues.
• Participating in Senior Citizen days.
• Awarding police departments with the fewest traffic incidents.
• Conducing public polls on traffic safety issues and the effectiveness of driver improvement classes.
• Collecting old vehicle batteries for recycling and sponsoring the removal of mercury switches in older vehicles.
• Providing Spanish language brochures, films and messages to various community groups and at community events.
• Hosting award luncheons for adult school crossing guards.
For traffic safety information, a copy of the SC Traffic Safety video or brochures, please call 704–569-7883. – Tom Crosby |
