Johnston County Teens Hold Safe Driving Summit

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Johnston County Teens Hold Safe Driving Summit

瓜神app | By Gurnal Scott

Published April 20, 2013 at 8:00 AM EDT

Johnston County teenagers will lead a discussion today aimed at stopping deadly crashes involving young drivers. Organizers of the will welcome students from 12 other counties to discuss safer driving practices among teens. Johnston County currently has the 4th highest number of deaths among high school-age drivers.

Lynda Carroll is with the county's Teen Driving Committee. She says the dialogue will focus on five areas of risky behavior behind the wheel.
"Those areas are seat belt use or the lack thereof, speeding, distracted driving, nighttime driving and the use of alcohol while driving," she said.

This is the first year of the summit. Organizers hope to not only make it an annual event, but a regular discussion held in every high school across the state.

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Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at 瓜神app/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' 瓜神appRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to 瓜神app Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal鈥檚 reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital 瓜神app Association of the Carolinas.

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