PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION TO OPRAH

 

Lesley’s Crusade needs your help to petition Oprah to do a show on reckless and dangerous driving and have  Lesley’s Crusade on that show.  Why?

 

·   To find the thousands of small, grassroots organizations that exist all across this nation – all battling for the same thing:  fewer deaths and injuries caused by reckless and dangerous drivers.

 

·   To combine forces and focus on strategies that MADD used so successfully in their battle against drunk driving,

 

We need thousands of signatures.  Print off copies of this and take it anywhere you can get signatures.  Send a blank copy of it to out of state friends and family.  We need a show that focuses on the 60% of fatalities that have nothing to do with drunk and drugged driving.  Approximately 13,500 people are killed by sober speeders each and every year;  Lesley was one of them. 

 

 

 

American drivers kill 42,000 people every year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesley Ann Suthard

Feb. 6, 1982 -  Aug. 24, 2002

42,000 deaths every year….sudden….violent….preventable

 

SEATBELTS  WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, BUT….

 

Everyone knows that buckling up will help save your life if you are in a traffic crash.  Hopefully you wear yours every time you get in a vehicle.

 

Statistics say they will save your life 45% of the time, which means that 55% of the time, YOU’LL DIE ANYWAY.

 

The only way to be sure you won’t die in a car crash is to not be in a car crash.

 

If we all follow the same rules, there would be thousands and thousands of lives saved.

 

99.9% of car crashes are driver error. 

 

 

FOLLOW TRAFFIC RULES…. AND SAVE

SOMEONE YOU LOVE

 

 

SOBER SPEEDING

 

The average speeder is 13 to 16 mph over the speed limit in Sacramento.

 

Every 3  mph increase in your speed over a base of 37 mph doubles your chances of being in a casualty crash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEMORIAL WALL

 

Lesley’s Crusade has been given permission by the California Dept.  of Motor Vehicles to display this portable Memorial Wall at the Region III DMV Field Offices on a rotating basis.   

 

This Memorial Wall is a tribute to those we have lost and a reminder to all drivers that the automobile is a deadly weapon  —  treat it with respect.

 

Lesley became a fatality statistic at 9:15 pm on August 24, 2002.  BUT SHE WAS SO MUCH MORE!!!

 

Help me make her death and all the other deaths be the beginning of a revolution in this country where we refuse to continue to kill each other for no reason.

 

NEW PARENT OR GRANDPARENT??

 

A child born today stands a 1% chance of dying from a car crash...NOT TOO BAD, YOU MIGHT THINK.

 

A child born today stands a 77% chance of being seriously injured in a car crash…. NOT SO GOOD IF IT BRINGS A LIFETIME OF PAIN.

 

“CHEAT DEATH” BUMPER STICKER

 

FREE with your promise to display on your car’s back window behind the driver’s head approximately 2-3 inches from the bottom and 6-7 inches from the side.  This positions the bumper sticker directly in front of whomever is stopped behind you (and guy’s – no problem with paint).  Send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Lesley’s Crusade.

 

PARENTS Stick one on your child’s car and one on their visor.  They’ll see it every time they start up.

 

The World Trade Center tragedy took the lives of 2,500 people. Crashes kill 42,000 each and every year.

 

To compare, approximately 2 jumbo jets each week for a year  would have to crash to kill 42,000 people.

 

Each and every year, 5,000 to 7,000 teens are killed in the U.S. from car crashes.