{"id":504029,"date":"2026-10-22T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504029\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:26:30","slug":"national-teen-driver-safety-week-helping-teens-stay-safe-behind-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504029\/","title":{"rendered":"National Teen Driver Safety Week: Helping teens stay safe behind the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 October 18 through 24 marks National Teen Driver Safety Week, a time to remind young drivers and their families about the importance of making safe decisions behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of death among teenagers, with distracted driving, inexperience and peer passengers among the concerns facing young drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Anderson, director of operations at the National Road Safety Foundation, joins ARC Bakersfield to discuss the biggest risks teen drivers face and how parents can help prevent crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 October 18 through 24 marks National Teen Driver Safety Week, a time to remind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}