Texting and Driving

The winner of our 2018 Stop Texting and Driving Video Scholarship contest is Blake O’Donnell of Mechanicsville, Va. O’Donnell entered the competition just weeks after his mother, Suzanne, a 48-year-old preschool teacher and breast cancer survivor, lost her life in a distracted driving accident. A teenager was charged with reckless driving in the wake […]

Late last month the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security announced its first annual Teen Driver Education Camp, which is being offered to 200 high school students from around the state. The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) will serve as hosts for the camp, which will take place at the department’s training center between Monday […]

At Raybin & Weissman we are so proud of our 2018 Texting and Driving Video Scholarship winners, including Jacob Fawcett, a high school senior at Hunters Lane High School. As our local (Davidson County) winner, Fawcett received a check in the amount of $1,000 at our scholarship ceremony, which was held at our offices on […]

At Raybin & Weissman we are so proud of our 2018 Texting and Driving Video Scholarship winners, including Coal Dye, a high school senior from Grace Christian Academy, who won our statewide competition. As winner for the state of Tennessee, Dye received a check in the amount of $1,000 at our scholarship ceremony, which was […]

“Troopers say just the slightest distraction can lead to a deadly crash.” So said NewsChannel5’s Dan Kennedy during a recent live report from North Nashville. According to Kennedy there were approximately 25,000 distracted driving crashes in Tennessee in 2017, which led to 120 deaths. That’s roughly the same number of crashes that involved a distracted […]