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February 26, 2014 | northfulton.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 9, No. 9
Milton one of Georgia’s, America’s ‘Safest Cities’ Roswell,Johns Creek, Alpharetta also top list
Alpharetta High students, from left, Megan English, Sylvia Leong and Abby Lloyd won the Road to Safety video contest with their video “Recounting the Crash.” With them is teacher Tracy Misner.
Teens steer Road to Safety Video contest teaches safe driving BY JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@northfulton.com MILTON, Ga. – Is it any wonder North Fulton schools participate in the annual video competition to raise awareness in student drivers about the need for driver safety? Car crashes are the No. 1 killer of teenagers nationwide, claiming 6,000 lives each year. A further 300,000 are injured. That is, one life is lost every 90 minutes. Many of the accidents can be attributed to distractions, speed and general inexperience of the drivers.
Unfortunately, most teenagers have an “it won’t happen to me” mindset. It is this thinking that the Road to Safety video competition hopes to change. Now in its fourth year, the competition pits students from all the high schools in the North Fulton area to create videos highlighting the dangers of driving or promoting safe driving practices. For the first year, there were four videos and six teens taking part. This year, at the Feb. 7 awards ceremony at Milton High School, there were 50 videos from 150 teenage videographers.
For more information and a look at the winning videos, visit www. road2safety.com and click on “videos.” Many of the videos concerned the loss of a loved one due to driving mistakes. “It’s very important the kids do this,” said Lisa Cauley,
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MILTON, Ga. – For the second year in a row, separate independent researchers have named the city of Milton one of the safest cities in Georgia and the United States. Home security experts Safewise ranked Milton third in its list of the 50 Safest Cities in Georgia with populations over 5,000. The company based the ranking on findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “Crime in the U.S.” report. Joining Milton in the top 15 were Johns Creek at No. 2, Roswell at No. 12 and Alpharetta at No. 15. Last year, real estate data resource company NeighborhoodScout.com ranked Milton 46th in its list of 100 Safest Cities in the U.S. with popu-
lations over 25,000. NeighborhoodScout.com also used data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program. Milton was one of just three Georgia cities to make the national list. “Once again, this information confirms what our residents have felt for a long time – that they live in one of the safest, most desirable and lowest crime areas in the country,” said Milton Police Chief Deborah Harrell. According to NeighborhoodScout.com, Milton reported just 15 violent crimes and 352 property crimes in 2012. With a population of 34,071, that means residents have just a one in 2,271 chance of becoming the victim of a violent crime, far below the state average of one in 264. Additionally, residents have a one in 96 chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, compared to the state average of one in 29.
The 20 Safest Cities in Georgia *As reported on www.safewise.com
1. Auburn 2. Johns Creek 3. Milton 4. Holly Springs 5. Peachtree City 6. McRae 7. Tyrone 8. Braselton 9. Jefferson 10. Kennesaw
11. Canton 12. Hampton 13. Roswell 14. Acworth 15. Alpharetta 16. Commerce 17. Duluth 18. Flowery Branch 19. Suwanee 20. Grovetown
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