Our Mission
Stay Alive .... Just Drive! is a traffic crash prevention, awareness, and education program aimed at curbing distracted driving and promoting safe driving. Today, most people consider unsafe driving as a major personal threat to themselves and others. Ultimately our goal is to reach every motorist, at least once a day with our message. Safe driving is not expensive, it's priceless.
About Stay Alive .... Just Drive
Starting as a local campaign in Lee County, Florida, Stay Alive .... Just Drive! was awarded $75,895.00 in grant dollars from the Florida Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. The local news media, public safety organizations, businesses, civic organizations, churches, schools and clubs have partnered to help support the initiative.
About Jay Anderson
Traffic safety professional, Jay Anderson,
is the Executive Director of STAY ALIVE .... JUST DRIVE! A
U.S. Army veteran and retired Lee County, FL, EMS Captain, he
serves as a Fire Commissioner with the South Trail Fire District
and sits on the Board of Directors of the Lee County Injury
Prevention Coalition (IPC). He is also a member of the Community
Traffic Safety Team (CTST), the Traffic Intervention Management
Team (TIM), the Hwy 27 Safety Task Force and the American Driver
and Traffic Safety Education Association (ADTSEA). Recently
recognized as one of “People to Watch ’09” by The News-Press,
Anderson writes articles regarding the dangers of distracted
driving for numerous publications and is an instructor for the
Lee Memorial Health System Trauma Services Young Drivers Program
and the court ordered High Risk Drivers Course.
Program Goals
- Reinforce the importance of maintaining safe and law abiding driving habits; stress accepting responsibility for the way we drive
- Discourage distracted and multi-tasking driving, including talking on cell phone, reading, eating, using a computer and grooming.
- Start tracking distracted-driving crashes and violations. (If it’s predictable, it’s preventable)
- Lobby for distracted driver legislation.
- Support a primary seatbelt law, in which any motor vehicle operator can be pulled over and cited for failing to wear a seatbelt.
- Increase educational requirements for new operators and habitual offenders.
- Push for stiffer penalties and fines, increased drivers license fees, apply the money toward traffic crash prevention programs.
Board of Directors
Dan Moser - Regional Trainer
Florida
Traffic and Bicycle Safety Education Program
Doug MacGregor -
Editorial Cartoonist
The News-Press
Chris Dowaliby -
Fire Chief (retired)
Fort Myers Shores Fire District
Syndi Bultman, M.S. CEN - Injury Prevention Educator
Lee Memorial Health System
Chuck Highfield - Freelance Writer
Nelayda Fonte, D.O. - Assistant Director Trauma Services
Lee Memorial Health System
Kris McCoun, M.A. - Freelance Information Management Consultant
Kathleen A. Smith - Public Defender, Twentieth Judical Circuit
Tym Davidson - Sales Representative
Jay Anderson (Executive Director), Fire Commissioner
South Trail Fire District