Michelin: Promoting Safe Driving For Teens

(This is a SheBuysCars sponsored Promotion)

Michelin is giving away a free set of tires to help promote safe driving amongst teens.

Infographic: Click here for an eye-opening infographic on whether driver’s education is failing our teenage drivers and not adequately preparing them for the road.

Just last night I was talking to someone about how crazy it was that our kids would one day be driving. My hope is that our roads keep seeing huge decreases in the amounts of lives lost each year. Car crashes are the #1 cause of death to our teens. I wish that would not be the case. Most crashes are preventable.

I am up for anything that supports safer driving. I always start with the humans first. We humans have to drive safely of course but it is also important to make sure your car is taken care of, especially your tires.

Michelin created a grant program specifically calling for people to submit ideas on a way to increase Teen Driver safety within driver education models in the areas of Miami and LA. One grant winner was chosen:

ADTSEA (the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association) is the winner of a $100,000 Michelin/FIA Teen Road Safety Grant. 

Join @SheBuysCars on Monday March 23rd, on Twitter from 9-10PM ET to talk about tire safety and teen driving education using #SafeTires and you can enter to win a new set of Michelin Premiere Tires, valued at $580 when you enter the RAFFLECOPTER on SheBuysCars.com.

Party Details:

We’ll be chatting about tire safety and teen driving education:

WHEN:  Monday March 23, 9-10 pm ET (8-9 pm CT; 7-8 pm MT; 6-7 pm PT)

WHO:

Hosts: @SheBuysCars @TravelingMoms
Panelists: @ScottyReiss @KimOrlando @Judy511 @NicoleWakelin @DianaRowe

WHAT: Twitter party –  tire safety AND teen driving eduction

HOW TO JOIN:  Follow the hashtags #TMOM and #SafeTires

HOW TO ENTER: 

 Enter your Twitter handle, follow @shebuyscars and @TravelingMoms. To be eligible to win you must  participate in the Twitter party using #SafeTires. Tell your friends for extra chances.

Waze: Why I Think It's Dangerous

This past week I was lamenting that newbies to LA didn't have to earn their driving stripes. They no longer had to learn where to go with the Frommer's Guide. They could type in a destination and taking it one more step they now have Waze.

For those of you who don't know what Waze is it's essentially an App that assesses the traffic in multiple routes you might take to get your destination and it takes you home on the safest route. Genius in a city like LA.

But there are some major flaws.

I used it this week a few times and I have to say I found it extremely dangerous.

I typed in my destination, while pulled over and then it gave me voice commands "Let's go!" OK, I thought great.

The screen looks like a video game. While driving it will say things like "Be careful, car pulled over on the shoulder up ahead," then I was thinking who let Waze know there was a car over on the shoulder. I was in dead stopped traffic on the freeway and I looked down at my phone on the middle console. I literally do not do this normally and saw it said it wanted me to rate how bad the traffic was! WTF?

It had me take multiple hairy lefts. Left no one wants to make so I took a right and then turned around. My mind felt scattered and un-focused. I honestly felt out of control. Not worth it, ever.

I might see what Waze has to say before I get in the car but I will be turning it off. I have made it almost 15 years in LA without it and I will survive many more(hopefully) without it. Plus, no traffic, that's so not LA.

Do you use Waze? What do you think of it?

PCH AKA "Bloody Alley"

Yesterday the news reported that Bruce Jenner survived an "accident" but there was a fatality on the PCH.

According to reports Jenner rear-ended a white Lexus in front of him which then went into oncoming traffic.

Much will come from this and time will tell.

Last night my husband I discussed how the PCH is such a deadly road. It's four lanes, high speed and people taking lefts. Essentially a freeway with stop signs and then people turning. If you go to someone's house in Malibu it feel us with this crazy energy, totally opposite of a laid back beach feel.

I just Google "PCH dangergous" and happened upon a father who is making  a documentary about the road dubbed "Bloody Alley."

On April 3, 2010 a young girl named Emily was killed while walking along the PCH.

Michale Shane, Emily's dad has this to say:

Shane said he hopes the PCH film will gain momentum similar to Werner Herzog's 34-minute documentary about the tragic consequences of texting while driving.

“It’s unbelievable how many people have been hurt and killed on this little part of paradise. It’s a war zone,” Shane said.

Despite its focus on a growing list of fatalities along PCH, the film “is not a litany of sorrow,” Shane said, adding that it will explore ways to make the Malibu highway safer, like adding sidewalks, guardrails and stop lights. NBC NEWS

Driving safely is a huge part of where we are failing but infrastructure is also to blame. If multiple deaths are happening on a road we have to speak up and changes should be made.

Why I Appreciate the "Dead Boy" SuperBowl Commercial

I did not watch the Super Bowl.

I am a thespian that way.

I did hear about some of the commercials and one really piqued my interest and clearly that of others, I’m talking about the Nationwide ad with the little boy who died in an accident. 

I have to admit when I saw this I thought yes, not because I’m a sicko, but because being a road safety advocate myself when I heard they were talking about accidents being the #1 cause of death to kids I knew what they were talking about. They are talking about accidents at home and they clump cars into that, my passion. 

Being a road safety advocate I have learned that the word accident is offensive. It implies there was no other outcome. Today, the day after the Super Bowl, Nationwide defended it’s commercial saying, "Preventable injuries around the home are the leading cause of childhood deaths in America. Most people don't know that. Nationwide ran an ad during the Super Bowl that started a fierce conversation. The sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance."

In the road safety world experts and biking enthusiasts hate the word accident, they prefer crash because most crashes are preventable. 

Yet, when it comes to car crashes we tend to write them off as fate just having a hand in them.

The way the media writes about them such as “the car lost control.” Versus, the mom driving was distracted while typing in the phone number of a pizza place to order food.

Seriously, for some reason people do not want to hear it.

The commercial led people to a site called Make Safe Happen. A site that has been dedicated for over 60 years to making kids safer at home. Because the campaign and site are geared at injuries at home they talk about car seats, booster seats, heatstroke and driveway safety.

Americans are upset because they found it offensive? 

I’m sure there were tons of alcohol fueled commercials and lots of big breasted women a plenty all being watched by little ones. I hate adult commercials for kids, I find it offensive that so many kids see such inappropriate material.

I heard the game ended with a brawl? That’s OK?

Here is a company trying to raise a cause for something that could possibly save a life. That’s at least accomplishing something.

Being passionate about car crashes in particular, I wish, of course, they would have talked about the way we parents drive. A crucial conversation that needs to happen and a way of life that needs to change but I am thankful for their coverage of car crashes at any level.

Maybe the commercial made a parent put down that extra beer before they drove home that day, who knows?

2015

I have not posted here in a very long time.

Honestly, it's easier not to think about car crashes. 

I have been dealing with anxiety of my own and had to tackle that along with dealing some personal issues and trying to do less and less just doing it very well. 

I have to drive my kids daily on LA freeways now to school, sometimes it's too much to think about the statistics. I've been at this for nearly 3 years and it's still hard to get through to the mom bloggers.

Doesn't stop me from still participating in it. It's mostly been via Twitter and Facebook. 

A few things: sign up for Finish the Ride here in LA if you can. It's an incredible ride with a very important message. Damian is a rock star for doing all he does. I'll be bringing my 8 year-old this year.

Keep driving safely and keep acting as an advocate.

Sunday is World Remembrance Day For Traffic Victims

Breast cancer gets a whole month, road traffic victims get a day and most people don't know about it.

World Remembrance Day is  this Sunday November 16th.

“The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year – to remember the many millions killed and injured on the world’s roads, together with their families and many others also affected, as well as reflect on the tremendous burden and cost of this daily continuing disaster.”

Jeri Lynch of The Conor Lynch Foundation is organizing of people starting at 11 at the bench in Sherman Oaks that is decorated with remembrance to Conor, her son. My son and I will be there.

If you want to come by, go for it. We aim to hopefully just draw some media. Or take pictures. Or at least honor the dead.

It's frustrating this fight for this cause. Why it gets so little attention is beyond me.

Anyways, feel free to meet up this Sunday.

If We Don't Do Something About It, Who Will?

This past Sunday I woke up at 4:45AM and put on my Wonder Woman socks and stood in my dark kitchen while the rest of the house slumbered.

I snapped a photo.

Jeri, who heads up The Conor Lynch Foundation, invites runners to dress up as super heroes because as she puts it, don't we need more super heroes on our streets?

I knew that I would be meeting some families who had flown in from across the states who had lost children to distracted drivers. I felt a little strange, as if I didn't have a right to campaign for safer streets since I haven't lost a child. Thank God and hope to never, ever.

Yes, I lost my great friend and mourn her but I know a child would be different.

I arrived to Sherman Oaks and it was still dark.

It was also quiet.

I saw a few people setting up wearing their bright orange running shirts with Conor's images on the front. I saw some balloons being unloaded from a van and then I saw those little neon yellow safety guys who hold the red flag that says SLOW.

I saw signs that said "Drive Like Your Kids Live Here" and "Keep Kids Alive Drive 25" and I was flooded with excitement and conviction that I wasn't crazy for my small philantrophic endeavors over here on Fix The Toaster.

I saw some women setting up the memorial garden they had in place. Pictures of people who had died due to distracted drivers.

People seemed to set up their booths quietly and I felt very excited to be surrounded by like minded people yet also saddened knowing the majority of us had lost people to distracted driving.

Dawn broke and the LA sun came up and warmed us up. 

Runners lined up and one woman was sort of hanging by my booth. I decided to say hello and talk to her about Fix The Toaster. So I know this is kind of weird I said, meaning my site's name and she said, it's not weird at all. 

Then she proceeded to tell me how her cousin's 9 year-old son was walking in NYC on January 10th, which happens to be my birthday, of this year, holding his dad's hand, when a cab driver blew through the cross walk and killed the boy.

She said her cousin has become a road safety activist.

I had actually heard of this story as it made national headlines.

                                                                                                     Beautiful Cooper Stock.

I told her how sorry I was and was in awe that, that was the first person I talked to.

I left  my booth to go hear the speakers kick off the event.

Jeri stood up there in her super hero costume and said "We can't bring Conor back but we can make a difference for the rest of us," can you imagine as a mother saying that? How powerful Jeri  is, honestly she's beyond.

Then she had her friends Davide and Leigh Kouchner speak and David had us raise our hands and pledge not to touch our phones while driving, "There's no reason to touch your phone while you are driving," said David.

Then Ben Vereen got up.  Ben had me wiping away tears into my gray hoodie.

He said he had lost someone and was a survivor himself.

I Googled him, he lost hi 16 year-old daughter, Naja, in 1987 when a truck overturned on her car.

“It shattered us as a family,” Vereen said. “I lost a daughter, and that’s something you never, ever get over. I couldn’t handle it. I wanted to kill myself; that’s how I fell into drugs.” Vereen developed a cocaine addiction, entered rehab and struggled to regain his sobriety. ”

— Huffington Post

Then, I'm getting chills just writing this, in 1992 he was the victim of a life-threatening accident when we has struck by a car driven by record producer David Foster while walking along a Malibu highway. 

He was up there, almost preaching, if not us, who? He kept saying. If we don't do something about it, then who will? 

Then some people released yellow balloons in honor of deceased loved ones and it was just raw.

I met Eileen and Paul Miller who lost their son Paul to a distracted driver. Eileen is small in stature but mighty in strength. She sent the distracted driver to jail but only because she persevered, used her mama bear intuition and some signs from Paul from above. 

I met  mom Elissa Schee who lost her beautiful daughter Margay when a person talking on their phone plowed into her bus and it caught on fire.

“Three years for killing Margay?” Elissa Schee said, referring to the prison sentence that Reinaldo Andujar-Gonzalez received Thursday for vehicular homicide and reckless driving.

”What’s my sentence? It’s a life sentence of missing Margay.”
”

— Ocala

I met a few fathers who had started their projects to promote safe driving just by having kids. Neither of them had lost children to distracted driving. This really made an impression on me.

Father's such as Tom Everson, whom I'm talked about extensively on the site because he makes those great "Keep Kids Alive Drive 25" signs. He said the program has been around a long time but has lost a lot of funding due to the economy collapse in 2008.

I met another dad who has started the Text Kills bus. He said his oldest daughter and I think he said he had 3 of them was texting a lot and he was worried about her so he started this.

Wade Morgan was there, a texting car crash survivor. I wish I had talked to him. I just read his story, you can too, his girlfriend was texting and driving when he was in a horrendous crash.

My husband, mother-in-law and three kids all joined me.

My oldest looked over the memorial garden and asked, were they distracted or did someone distracted kill them?

As we drove home I asked him, what do you think of mommy doing all of this for distracted driving? I mean do you think about it?

I thought he might answer, it is weird.

He was silent.

Then I said, do you think it will effect the way you drive?

Yeah, came his voice solemnly from the back.

That's all I can hope for.

I wish there were more events like this. I wish more people would have showed up. It's the #1 cause of death to our young.

If after reading this you are still using your phone when you drive you really should just re-read it and think about all these parents and their beautiful kids no longer with them.

Driving drowsy, speeding and tailgating are all a part of it too.

Thank you Jeri for this event. It meant a lot to me. It was my first time gathering with like minded people and it blew me away. 

Gwyneth Paltrow, She's Just Like Too Many Of Us

I was just reading about how Gwyneth Paltrow's neighbors were furious at her for closing off her street due to a recent fundraising party she had for President Obama at her house.

Many thoughts went through my head.

Then I clicked on a link somehow which showed Gwyneth driving with one hand on the wheel and another on her phone which was up to her ear. Yes, driving while talking which is illegal here in California.

I quickly posted it to Fix The Toaster' FB page.

Then I thought, wait a minute, Gwyneth gets bashed all the time.

I'm not into public bashing but I did post the photo because I want people to think about how if it irritates you that she is doing that then think about how irritating and unsafe it is when you do it. Because a lot of "you" do that don't you?

So, before you bash Gwyneth think about yourself.

Also, Gwyneth, you just did a major campaign, Stand Up 2 Cancer, well how about starting a campaign that puts a spin on driving safely as sexy? And the right thing to do.

It's the number one cause of death to kids.

You've got kids.

In fact 77 teens die EACH week due to car crashes.

Most are preventable.

Anyways, before you bash her think about yourself and Gwyneth, if you read this help this cause out. Shine your blonde light on it lady. 

I'm happy to give you a free Fix The Toaster racerback. I know, that's enticing.

Signs

It was a pleasant surprise to see Ali Landry Tweet and Instagram this. It took my breath away for a second seeing Polly and myself. Even though I set up my own booth.

Kudos to Ali for using her star power to shine light on road safety.

Then someone tagged me in a photo she took of a sign that read Drive Like Your Kids Live Here. I hung up my phone and started driving and not 2 minutes later I saw the same sign!

I pulled over and took a picture.

Despite feel like sometimes this is futile it was a few nice signs and I know people are frustrated and some people obviously heart broken. Especially those who have lost children.

Anyways, felt like a few nice signs.

On Today's Event

Today I was a part of Ali Landry's annual RedCARpetSafety Event.

I was excited to be invited to have a booth there. Any chance to spread the road safety issue. I was dually excited because most vendors were there promoting car seats and installation. While those are important without us adults driving safely it doesn't matter about those. Well, you know what I mean.

We come first.

I had varied reactions.

First, I will admit I was the strangest booth there.

I was selling a concept rather then a product.

I was thankful to have Jeri right next to me in her booth. She was wearing a Wonder Woman costume because "Don't we need to be superheroes out there on our streets?" Says a mom who lost her oldest son to a distracted driver.

Yes, we do of course.

Jeri was brave enough to say to people what at first I was being too PC to say. She said, if we don't drive safe it doesn't matter what type of carseats you use.

The event had many pregnant moms and new moms.

One mom with a baby kept asking me, well what should I do, when I tried explaining Fix The Toaster to her. She asked me to stop telling her about Polly as it was making her anxious immediately.

I realized I needed to pitch to people the site a bit better.

I started telling them the site was a source of info for holding a community meeting, which I have done.

I had a few moms glare at me a bit when I gave stickers to their kids to give to them when they drove without their phones. And one dad flat out said, you better give those to your mom, laughing as he shook his head.

I wonder if people would laugh if I was talking about preventing pool drownings or gun shot victims.

I don't know what's funny about using your phone when you know it's dangerous.

A lot of people thought it was cool and a few were really interested and frustrated in their own neighborhoods and with their own schools.

I met a woman named Pat Hines whom I'm smitten with.

She's cool, smart and became an advocate after her best friend died in a horrific bike hit and run(it involved even worse details)

She has educated Los Angeles kids for years now, she's recognized nationally.

She said parents will not listen to the law, they will listen to their kids.

She said one day LAPD had a female cop go undercover and pretend to walk her kid across the street in a stroller, they ticket 140 people that day.

The next day they did it again.

They ticketed 90 people.

Many of the same people.

Many parents.

It's pathetic.

As I drove home on this cool and cloudy LA day I listened to some mellow music and thought about the darkness these women have encountered via road crashes.

Polly once accused me of worrying about stuff too much and that I would attract it because of my worrying.

I actually felt guilty after she died in the crash that my worrying caused it.

Which is ridiculous.

Sometimes I wonder, do I want to be around bad, bad things that have happened? Then I think, who am I to advocate for this? What am I doing? Or what should I do? Like that woman kept asking me.

But I did encounter darkness when Polly died.

I didn't cause her crash.

I've been an advocate even before she died, I just didn't know it.

For some reason this is a passion of mine.

It blows my mind and other road safety advocates minds that this comes off as radical to a lot of people.

What is radical about wanting our streets to be safer?

Who says so many people should die on our roads?

Today, I saw so many pregnant women and newborns.

I know people don't want to hear it but car crashes are the #1 cause of death to our young. And most of it's preventable.

I know that I also do this because I do not want my kids to be killed in a car crash.

No one does but yet it's going so far under the radar. This is my channel for my nerves and my anguish over losing my friend.

I'm comforted by these new friends I'm meeting and curious to see where this will all go.

I honestly don't think I'll live to see a huge change. I think it will change but not for awhile.

I can't wait for the day when people look back at us and think how crazy we were for accepting this as just normal.

Car Crashes vs. Enterovirus D68

I'm really sick of people worrying about the wrong things.

Yes, it would be very scary if your child or you contacted Enterovirus D68. But so far no one has died from it.

Every day in America 5 kids die in mostly preventable car crashes.

The cause of this crash was being looked into but two children died as well as 3 adults when the driver swerved.

Wash your hands and then get in your minivan moms and STOP using your damn phones.

Stop speeding.

Leave space between yourself and the car in front of you.

Seriously, of course it would be scary but what is frightening is that car crashes are the #1 cause of death to your people and we don't do shit about it.

Fix The Toaster Women's Tank

I'm getting ready to have a booth at the upcoming RedCARpetSafety Event and I've made up a tank to wear to the event.

Voila!

I have ordered 6 of these, 3 in Large and 3 in XL. They are a really cute tank, I have another one for something else.

If you are interested in buying it just shoot me an email and I'll send you a PayPal invoice for $35. That will include shipping.

Guest Post by David Little

This is a guest post by Fix The Toaster contributor David Little.

In early 2012 I watched a news story on the dangers of distracted driving. It was then that I realized I had a story to tell and perhaps could have a hand in changing the way we look at cell phones and driving.  My education began, and I learned as much as I could about this epidemic, so that I could speak and write on the subject and perhaps change some behavior and even save a few lives.

What I wasn’t prepared for was the number of new friends I would make in a relatively short period of time who were also advocates.  A few I have met face to face, but the vast majority are social media connections.  Scattered all over the country.  Unfortunately, many of my new friends have paid the ultimate price.  They have lost children, parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, husbands and wives all in 100% preventable car crashes.  Crashes caused by cell phones. 

Last year my wife and I attended an Advocates Workshop where families who have been affected by distracted driving crashes could learn to be better advocates and tell their stories.  30 families were represented and I was one of 3 in attendance who were actual survivors of these crashes.  3.  Everyone else had lost a loved one.  One young lady I met, who was paralyzed from the chest down due to a distracted driving crash, expressed a feeling of guilt for being there.  I felt the same way.  I cannot think of any other way to describe it. 

I would be lying to say it wasn’t difficult to be there.  We were surrounded by so many hurting families. We shared meals with them, and coffee and cookies during our breaks, and we searched for the appropriate words even in simple small talk.  Still, it was moving and uplifting to meet these brave souls who have decided to share their stories. Dedicate their lives.  Sell businesses, change jobs, even quit jobs, so that they can talk to groups about Distracted Driving and to publicly share their worst nightmare, over and over again in the hope that their message reaches just a few people and saves just a few lives, and knowing that their efforts won’t be in vain.

When I share, post, speak, comment, write and talk about distracted driving, I may use our story to make the point, but in my heart, and in my mind it is these families that I am always thinking of.    When I see someone talking or texting, I think if Javier, Joe, Margay and Rachel.  I think of Jennifer, Rusty, John, Katie, Chandler and Connor.

When you see someone talking or texting while they drive, who or what do you think about?   Or, are you the one on the phone?

Re-Cap of the Fix The Toaster Event

Two weeks ago Fix The Toaster held its first offline event at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood. A huge thank you to Dave Fofi for lending me the space for the cause. 

We kicked off the event with the Assless Chaps bringing their music to a surprised group of people. They are awesome. 

Wonderful sponsors were there such as Pretzel Crisps, Orchard Flats, Angel Cake Pop & Keep Kids Alive Drive 25.

MommyTonk sang their hilarious song, "Don't Be An Asshole When you Drive." The CHP all broke out their cameras.

Men in uniform.

I got up and introduced myself and my intentions.

My intentions were to hopefully help change the mindset in the audience, I wanted people to stop calling car crashes accidents and also have these influential mom bloggers blog about this cause. I talked about Polly.

It was fitting I was in a theatre as she was an actress.

Then Leland from CHP West Valley got up and represented The Conor Lynch Foundation after we watched a few videos. Lots of tears watching Conor and Jeri and her family and friends speak about his loss.

Zoe from Teen Impact and What's Lethal spoke about how they out-reach to the youth.

Damian Kevitt from Finish The Ride had everyone's jaw to the floor as he re-counted his horrific nightmare of being drug unto the 5 freeway and left for dead in a hit and run. 

And to wrap it up we had Alexis from Los Angeles Walk come up and give out great suggestions such as parking a few blocks away from your school to help ease congestion around your school when doing drop off.

The event really was powerful.

I wish I could have filled the audience, it was rather small.

It was truly a great event.

Even my mom was impressed and she's hard to please, believe me.

It still feels like there is so much to do for the cause but at least it was something.

A huge thank you to all of my sponsors and speakers. I look forward to doing it again and packing this house.

A huge thanks to The Conor Lynch Foundation as well. Really blows my mind all that Jeri does. 

Help Me Come Up With a Bumper Sticker for The #RedCARpetEvent

Fix The Toaster will have a booth at the upcoming Red CARpet Event at the Skirball Center on September 28th.

Here is some info on the event.

The Red CARpet Safety Awareness Event will take place on Sunday, September 28th at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles.  The event is hosted by Ali Landry, her company Favored.by.  

The RedCARpet event is a celebrity driven safety event, where celebrities, bloggers, media and moms learn and help to increase awareness for child passenger safety, as well as general safety for baby, toddler, and kids.  It is the event to learn about the best car seat for your child, as well as safety on the go, at home, water safety, baby-wearing safety, body care safety, food safety, and more.

Fix The Toaster will have a booth and I want to give out something to people, I'm thinking a clever, cute bumper sticker.

Help me come up with an idea!

Here are a few of mine:

1. Just Stop Touching It

2. Do you know someone who has died in a car crash? I do. It sucks. Drive safely.

OK, kiddos calling me but please add any input!

Thank you!

Just Stop Touching It: The Challenge To Stop Using Your Phone While Driving

I just drove back form Santa Monica to the East Side of LA. 

I was listening to NPR peeps talk about the success of the #icebucketchallenge.

I also looked at a lot of people driving, down the freeway, looking at their laps.

Just stop touching it!

Popped into my mind.

So we'll see if this takes off. Car crashes are a global epidemic that receive very little media attention. Despite being preventable. There are cures. Yet we keep making deadly choices.

Get your face out of your lap when you are driving.

Put your phone in the backseat or off. You will survive. So here it goes. 

#juststoptouchingit

Support Drew Scheneman's Kickstarter Campaign

Drew Scheneman is currently running a Kickstarter campaign that is going towards helping him create an instructional video series that teaches parents how to teach their teens how to drive safely.

An animated instructional series that gives parents lessons and tips they can use when they are teaching their teen to drive. 

He says:

My ultimate goal is to try and increase the involvement of parents in their teenagers' driving. 

He's already raised quite a bit of money and the project looks interesting. A great idea to support considering car crashes are the #1 cause of death to teens.

Best of luck Drew.

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Get Your Ticket for August 17th's Road Safety Event

Get your free ticket for August 17th's road safety event hosted by Fix The Toaster herself.

So many great speakers and organizations are involved.

The Conor Lynch Foundation, Finish The Ride, Safe Kids Worldwide, Los Angeles Walks, What Do You Consider Lethal, Walk n'Rollers and the CHP.

Mommy Tonk will sing their drive safe PSA and then moderate the Q&A.

Really this will not be morbid.

Also a huge thanks to our sponsors, Pretzel Crisps, Orchard Flats, Angel Pops, Beauty Mom Me, Faavored by and Club Mom Me.

GET YOUR FREE TICKET HERE

chpBring your teens!

Please use the hashtags #fixthetoaster and #drivesafe