Students Learn of Driving Danger as Part of Grant Funded Program
Students heard from Dr. Bryan Kane, of the Lehigh Valley Hospital, as part of "Project Ignition."
"The thing I need everyone in this auditorium to understand are these three things: for every American between the ages of 1 and 42, the leading cause of death is trauma. So that's your siblings, your cousins, and probably some of your teachers." That was the sharp statistic Dr. Bryan Kane, of Lehigh Valley Hospital's trauma ward, used to start his presentation on the dangers of driving in front of hundreds of students in the Upper Dublin High School gymnasium Thursday morning. "Of those Americans that will die because of trauma, the vast majority will die in a motor vehicle crash," Kane continued. "And for each and every high school student in the United States, the leading cause of death is a motor vehicle crash." A bit scary? Perhaps. …
