High School Students Remind Motorists about Highway Safety

As part of its “Drive Safe PA” radio contest, PennDOT asks high school sophomores, juniors and seniors to create a 30-second radio PSA focused on aggressive driving, buckling up or driving under the influence. Students are required to include the phrase “Drive Safe PA,” which PennDOT introduced in 2009 to remind motorists to avoid life-threatening behaviors behind the wheel. Each of the 11 regional winners are invited to travel to Harrisburg to have their entries professionally recorded for distribution to local radio stations during National Youth Traffic Safety Month in May.

The Commonwealth is not affiliated with any contest entrants or the selected winners.

2010 Drive Safe PA Radio PSA Contest Winners

Congratulations to the students who were selected as regional winners in the 2010 Drive Safe PA Radio PSA contest. The list of winning schools and students is below. To hear this year´s winners, please visit our 2010 contest page.

District 1 (Crawford, Erie, Forest, Mercer, Venango and Warren counties)
Joe Ligo - Mercer High School, Mercer County.

District 2 (Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, McKean and Potter counties)
Robert Jones, Brandon Savage - DuBois Area High School, Clearfield County.

District 3 (Bradford, Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga and Union counties)
Brittany Colton, Erica Route - Canton Junior/Senior High School, Bradford County.

District 4 (Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties)
Sean Bromiley, Erhan Isliam, Ka Chun Kevin Wong - Hazleton Area High School, Luzerne County

District 5 (Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and Schuylkill counties)
Ronnie Zeiber, Aaron Meehan, Jackson Kitchell - Berks Career and Technology Center, Berks County.

District 6 (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties)
Michelle Stapleton - Sun Valley High School, Delaware County.

District 8 (Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties)
Carl Minieri - Manheim Central High School, Lancaster County.

District 9 (Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset counties)
Joshua Beistel, Tyler Bonadio, Hank Steinmiller, DJ Clementi - Somerset Area High School, Somerset County.

District 10 (Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson counties)
Natalie Yanoff - Ford City High School, Armstrong County.

District 11 (Allegheny, Beaver and Lawrence counties)
John Gordon, Elaine Carey, Regina Suchin, Nick Marchese, Emily Donaldson - North Hills Senior High, Allegheny County.

District 12 (Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties)
Amber Hricko - Belle Vernon Area High School, Fayette County.

2009 Drive Safe PA Radio Contest Winners

PennDOT introduced the Drive Safe PA Radio PSA contest in 2009. To view last year´s winners, please visit the 2009 contest page.