Miami, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/16/2017 -- The leading cause of death for people between the age of 16 and 20, are motor vehicle accidents that have occurred nationwide.

Triple A reports that 156 Ohio teens were killed in car crashes in the year 2015.

A former law enforcement officer, Pat brown, who is currently a AAA drivers-ed teacher stated: "When you hear of an accident, one of the first things we do is we wonder if it was a student we had. It does not really matter that much, but it is personal. When it does happen, it is pretty sad,"

Distractions were the cause for two-thirds of teen fatalities, said Brown.

Brown emphasizes how distractions should not be present at the moment of driving. "Driving has to come first. Even with your friends in the car. That includes mom and dad. Your focus needs to be driving first. Too many times it's not the main focus and that is the main problem".

The biggest cause of teen deaths is some form of distraction, mentioned AAA. One would imagine cell phones being the main cause for distractions, but it is actually other passengers in the vehicle.

50 hours must be logged while under supervised driving for a provisional driver, 10 of those being during the first six months of driving at night time, and 24 hours of classroom instruction must be completed, according to Ohio Law.

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Sharon Fife of D&D driving school said: "Graduated driver licensing is generally meant to spread out the licensing process".

For over 30 years, Sharon Fife and her family have been teaching drivers.

Stronger graduated driver licensing laws protect not only the teens but always everyone on the road, says Sharon.

Sharon mentioned: "It has lowered a number of teenage deaths, that's been the biggest improvement to lower teenage crashes".

The encouragement to parents to give their children good examples about how they should act while driving is strongly advocated by Fife and Brown.

More drivers are entering drivers-ed class at the age of 18, rather than 16 in the nation, a fact that was learned Percy Martinez.

Sources:
http://midatlantic.aaa.com/traffic-safety/teen-driving
http://newsroom.aaa.com/2011/11/aaa-study-finds-costs-associated-with-traffic-crashes-are-more-than-three-times-greater-than-congestion-costs/

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Percy Martinez and his partners Pablo Fuentes, Maria Gonzalez, Jessica Rivera, and Michael Allen, are on a mission to help those who have been injured at the hands of another person’s reckless actions, and or, negligent ones.

Miami, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/13/2017 -- Lazaro Mendez, known as DJ Laz is a famous Miami Radio personality and Cuban-American rapper, who was involved in a boating accident that took the life of a 23-year old man named Ernesto Hernandez in 2014. After a day in a vodka- sponsored event at a sandbar just off Key Biscayne, DJ Laz's 40-foot Hydro Sport Open Fisherman vessel sucked Ernesto Hernandez into the boat's propellers as he tried to help the boat that got lodged on the sandbar, fatally wounding him. DJ Laz recklessly endangered the throttle of the engine by trying revive the boat's engine with people still in the water.

This terrible accident occurred on May 2014, when 40-foot Hydro Sport Open Fisherman vessel got stuck in a sandbar. Ernesto Hernandez, 23, who had his whole life ahead of him as a recent grad from the police academy, and others who attended this event, assisted DJ Laz in trying to free the boat from the sandbar. There was much debate on whether those on the boat gave warning signs when DJ Laz was going to throttle the engine, and whether anyone was intoxicated during the time of the accident.

The police officers that arrived on the scene did not test DJ Laz's alcohol blood level because he appeared to have not been impaired, so they did not find any reason to test him. The manslaughter charge against DJ Laz did not hold as prosecutors found that there was no evidence that DJ Laz was impaired and acted reckless by the disregarding the lives of those in the water.

DJ Laz agreed to a plea deal for the boating accident that took the life of Ernesto Hernandez. DJ Laz was cited for careless driving resulting in death, and was civilly penalized by having to pay $500 and donate $1000 to a beach fund, also having to complete community service hours. This case also brought into the picture the sponsors of the event, Voli Vodka. A civil lawsuit is currently pending against them. Any parties associated with someone's accident, especially a person's death, can be held accountable if proven that they acted negligently.

Lazaro Mendez was not criminally charged, but the civil suit filed by Ernesto Hernandez's family against Voli Vodka corporation is still pending. Percy Martinez personal injury lawyer will be assisting in the pending case against Voli Vodka, the sponsoring company of the event where this tragedy took place. As evidence and information is gathered, the progression of the case will be updated.

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