The Bucks County Commissioners recognized the success of TMA Bucks’ annual Bucks County High School Seatbelt Safety Challenge and Teen Driver Safety Video PSA Challenge by officially proclaiming National Teen Driver Safety Week in Bucks County.
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TMA Bucks announced during National Teen Driver Safety Week it is once again challenging Bucks County high school students to always buckle up as the 15th annual Bucks County High School Seatbelt Safety Challenge and Teen Driver Safety Video PSA Challenge officially begins.
The Bucks County Commissioners also recognized the success of the program over the years at their Oct. 20 public meeting by officially proclaiming National Teen Driver Safety Week in Bucks County.
Baseline surveys of student driver seatbelt use have been conducted at every public and private high school in Bucks County. Surveys were conducted safely and without the knowledge of the student body or administration in order to ensure the most accurate data sampling. Each school’s result is being forwarded to the administration with an invitation to participate in the challenge.
The Bucks County High School Seatbelt Safety Challenge encourages participating high schools to raise their student driver seatbelt usage over the course of the year as various student groups at each school work to actively promote seatbelt use within the student body using posters, T-shirts, school-wide announcements and other creative messages. In spring, an unannounced follow-up survey is conducted at each of the participating schools. The school with the highest overall percentage in seatbelt use and the school with the greatest percentage increase in seatbelt use are both awarded with perpetual trophy plaques and $500 cash grants for safety-related use by the school.
Back again this year as part of the initiative is the Teen Driver Safety Video PSA Challenge powered by Comcast. As part of the Seatbelt Challenge all Bucks County high schools have the opportunity to produce and submit a 30-second video PSA on teen driver safety.
The school selected as the winner will get a $500 cash grant and their video will play on Comcast networking. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube with the link emailed to dave@bctma.com by April 1 to be eligible to win.
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