PLN 11

For my eleventh PLN entry I read another article from "The Denver Post" about policemen in Denver talking to teenagers about wearing their seatbelts. I think this is a good thing because there are car crashes every day and I'm sure a lot of them involve teens.

In 2005, 71 teenagers died in car accidents, 50 of them were not wearing seatbelts. This shows how important it is to get teens to wear their seatbelts. There are 36 law enforcement agencies that are doing these meeting at high schools. These meetings will take place through May of 2008. They are going to high schools in the 11 most populated counties in Colorado. These include Arapahoe, Adams, Boulder, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, Mesa, Pueblo, and Weld.

This article applies to me because these policemen might come to my high school. I think that would be good because I really believe that we need to get kids to buckle up more often. I know I forget to wear my seatbelt a lot of the time I am in the car and I think if we had policemen talk to us about it, it would make a difference. That applies to the world because maybe other countries would start to have meetings at their schools if it worked out here. That would reduce the number of teenage deaths every year and that is a very good thing.