[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17414]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    NATIONAL TEEN SAFE DRIVER MONTH

  The resolution (S. Res. 230) designating the month of July 2007 as 
``National Teen Safe Driver Month,'' was agreed to. The preamble was 
agreed to. The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 230

       Whereas automobile accidents involving teenage drivers 
     result in the highest cause of death and injury for 
     adolescents between the ages of 15 and 20 years;
       Whereas, each year, 7,460 teenage drivers between the ages 
     of 15 and 20 years are involved in fatal crashes, and 
     1,700,000 teenage drivers are involved in accidents that are 
     reported to law enforcement officers;
       Whereas driver education and training resources have 
     diminished in communities throughout the United States, 
     leaving families underserved and lacking in opportunities for 
     educating the teenage drivers of those families;
       Whereas, in addition to costs relating to the long-term 
     care of teenage drivers severely injured in automobile 
     accidents, automobile accidents involving teenage drivers 
     cost the United States more than $40,000,000,000 in lost 
     productivity and other forms of economic loss;
       Whereas technology advances have increased the opportunity 
     of the United States to provide more effective training and 
     research to novice teenage drivers; and
       Whereas the families of victims of accidents involving 
     teenage drivers are working together to save the lives of 
     other teenage drivers through volunteer efforts in local 
     communities: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) designates the month of July 2007 as ``National Teen 
     Safe Driver Month''; and
       (2) calls upon the members of Federal, State, and local 
     governments and interested organizations--
       (A) to commemorate National Teen Safe Driver Month with 
     appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs; and
       (B) to encourage the development of resources to provide 
     affordable, accessible, and effective driver training for 
     every teenage driver of the United States.

                          ____________________