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State Farm® is proud to support the Florida Teen Safe Driving Coalition with a $60,00

State Farm® is proud to support the Florida Teen Safe Driving Coalition with a $60,00

State Farm® is proud to support the Florida Teen Safe Driving Coalition

State Farm announced its support of a Florida based teen traffic safety group

In just the first three months of the year, there were more than 9,500 traffic deaths nationwide. That's the highest first quarter in two decades. While the causes are nothing new, speed being a major factor, road safety advocates are calling for dramatic changes to get numbers down.

And, Melissa Valido cares about what you do on the roads, because it’s her personal mission to end road tragedies and distracted driving. In fact, her passion for safe driving is one of the reasons she is one of Tallahassee’s 25 Women You Need to Know. What you do on the road is personal for Valido. In 2014, her stepson Anthony was killed by a distracted driver. He was just shy of turning 20 years old, and killed in an instant. “It rocked the core of my life,” she says. But, it also for...