Local Teens put Brakes on Unsafe Driving at "Keep the drive Raleigh"

More than 100 teens representing Mary E. Phillips, Enloe and Apex High Schools joined together for an Allstate Foundation Keep the Drive Summit and Rally on Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Keep the Drive Raleigh is a teen-to-teen movement to help students change the way they think and act in a car. It empowers teens to be smart driving activists among their peers. As one of 14 summits nationwide sponsored by The Allstate Foundation this year, the event encourages teens to help reduce the more than 5,000 teen deaths caused by car crashes each year. After the event, student leaders at Mary E. Phillips High School staged a rally to take on the No. 1 killer of teens and recruit fellow students to join them. These students left behind their mark on school grounds through a memorial to represent the teens that die each day in motor vehicle crashes, as well as banners and signs reminding their peers to drive smart.