33
The Signal | Winter 2014–2015
Safer Roads Save Lives
Joshua Frank
Sterling, Colo.
Krystal Williams
Chehalis, Wash.
Lyndsay Morgan
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Andrea Pair
Spiro, Okla.
The Roadway Worker Memorial Scholarship
Program provides financial aid to children and
spouses of roadway workers who died or became
permanently disabled from injuries sustained in
work zone accidents. The scholarship program is
supported by contributions from industry
organizations and individuals.
(From left)
Lori Diaz, Foundation assistant manager; Taylor Turner; Buster Nelson,
State Farm
®
agent; Julia Harris; Rob Dingess, Foundation board of directors;
Emily Bennett; Daniel Forjan; Andrew McKinney; Asantѐ Quintana; David Rush,
VDOT; and Ginger Quinn, VDOT.
Virginia Teen Driver Safety PSA Contest
The American Traffic Safety Services Foundation announced the winners of the second
annual Virginia Teen Driver Safety PSA Contest. The Foundation’s video contest, which
was open to Virginia high schools, challenged students to produce a 30- to 60-second
public service announcement to highlight the dangers associated with distracted driving,
exceeding speed limits and a variety of other dangerous driving habits.
The winners of the contest were:
1
st
Place ($1,000): Julia Harris and Emily Bennett, Arlington Career Center, Arlington, Va.
2
nd
Place ($750): Daniel Forjan, Asantè Quintana, Andrew McKinney,
James Monroe High School, Fredericksburg, Va.
3
rd
Place ($500) Taylor Turner, Madison County High School, Madison, Va.
Students received cash prizes, and $500 was awarded to each of the winning teams’
schools at an awards ceremony at the American Traffic Safety Services Foundation’s
headquarters in Fredericksburg, Va., May 27.
“Roadway crashes are a major factor in the deaths of young adults every year,” said
Foundation Director Melanie McKee. “We thank State Farm
®
for making this contest
possible through The Foundation. The contest helps raise roadway safety awareness for all
students who participate.”
The Foundation
Produces Roadway
Worker Videos
The Foundation produced two new
Foundation videos to promote roadway
safety. The story about Steve Morgan, a
firefighter, highway worker, father, son,
colleague and brother, who was killed in
a roadway work zone in Sarasota, Fla.,
in 2011, is show on one video.
His daughter, Lyndsay, received a
scholarship from The Foundation.
The second
video tells the
story about
Kristen
Holloway, a
young woman
who joined
several
members of her
family who
worked for a
roadway contractor in Texas. While she
was working to make the area’s roads
safer for motorists, she was killed in a
roadway work zone. Her mother worked
for the roadway contractor, but she wasn’t
on the job that day.
Her family remembered Holloway with
a wooden plaque engraved with the
words: “Our Warrior Princess: In the
Arms of Angels.” The Foundation
honors and remembers Kristen on the
National Work Zone Memorial.
Congratulations to the 2014 Scholarship Recipients
Kristen Holloway
