As part of the Annual Bucks County High School Seatbelt Safety Challenge, students that are part of Neshaminy High School’s Service Learning Center Club held signs encouraging their peers to wear the protective belts.
The high school has nearly 200 student drivers, many transport friends home, according to club adviser and teacher Cate Romano.
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Students at Neshaminy have been out with the signs and are expected to be out for the next few weeks.
The Seatbelt Challenge is backed by the TMA Bucks, a nonprofit transportation agency.
Here’s what the TMA said about the challenge:
Baseline surveys of student driver seatbelt use have been conducted at every public and private high school in Bucks County. Surveys were conducted without the knowledge of the student body or administration in order to ensure the most accurate data sampling. Each school’s result will be forwarded to the administration with an invitation to participate in the challenge.
The 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 high school work to actively promote seatbelt use within the student body using posters, t-shirts, school-wide announcements and other messages. In spring, a 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 a safety-related use by the school.
There is also a new element this year for the challenge in the form of 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. It can deal with any aspect including seatbelts, texting, distracted driving, speeding, etc. The school selected as the winner will get a $500 cash grant and their video will play on Comcast networking.
AAA Mid-Atlantic is the premier sponsor for this year’s challenge while Automotive Training Center (Warminster campus), Gannon Insurance Agency, McCafferty Auto Group, McMahon Associates, Senator Tommy Tomlinson, Univest and Visit Bucks County also sponsoring.
Last year’s challenge saw 17 high schools participate and for the first time ever in the challenge’s five-year history saw one school, Central Bucks High School South, win both categories.
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