Just Drop It
TEXTING AND DRIVING? BAD, VERY BAD
To reduce traffic and car accidents, the City of Coral Gables is supporting Put It Down, an educational campaign to raise awareness about distracted driving. Through social media and message boards on roads and highways, the city is advertising the dangers of texting and driving. Part of the program is signing a pledge promising you will not text and drive, which Maj. Brian Lawrence of the Coral Gables Police Department has taken himself.
The city has also partnered with the University of Miami, recently holding a student safety fair on campus to teach bike and pedestrian safety, as well as the dangers of texting while driving. The fair included a simulator where students could experience a car-crash roll-over.
“My hope is that people drive safer, that we save lives, and that we reduce crashes in Coral Gables,” says Lawrence.
