Local crash survivors' road to recovery featured in documentary 'The Other Breakfast Club'
Posted by John Serba | The Grand Rapids Press March 11, 2008 05:00AM
House assisted living center, was a catalyst for the making of the documentary featuring local brain-injury patients.
GRAND RAPIDS -- For some, a tracheotomy scar is a badge of courage.
Six Grand Rapidians who bear the nickel-sized mark on their necks, the result of a surgical procedure to attach a respirator to coma patients, call themselves "The Other Breakfast Club." Read more...

New Documentary Chronicles Recovery
From Brain Injury Caused By Car Crashes
Traffic crashes biggest cause of traumatic brain injury for people under 60GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 11, 2008 -- As National Brain Injury Awareness Month is being commemorated this month, a new documentary film that chronicles the often painfully slow process of recovery from traumatic brain injury caused by car crashes will have its world premiere showing here on March 11, before an invitation-only crowd. "The Other Breakfast Club" follows the stories of six people under 30 who suffered traumatic brain injury from car crashes, which resulted in coma and intensive rehabilitation. At various stages of recovering their past lives, the group, which calls itself The Other Breakfast Club, meets monthly for moral support. Read more...
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Drowsy Driving Kills!
November, 2007 - National Road Safety Foundation, Inc.
This weekend, November 3rd, we fall back and lose an hour of daylight: that means more time driving in the dark -- a good time to guard against drowsy driving. Most of us have driven while tired. A 2006 study showed, in fact, that an alarming 37% of drivers admit to actually falling asleep at the wheel. Let your eyes shut for just 3 or 4 seconds and, at highway speeds, you've traveled the length of a football field, enough time to veer out of your lane into oncoming traffic or off the road and into a tree...
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Drowsy-Driving Session Targets Teens
Friday, May 12, 2006 - Bangor Daily News
BANGOR - Teenagers, because they need more sleep than many of them are getting, are being targeted by a national safety group to reduce high risk for sleep induced vehicle crashes. Read more...
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National Group Works For Safer Roads
Friday, May 12, 2006 - Union Leader
NASHUA – In the last three years, American military casualties have totaled more than 2,400 men and women. By comparison, more than 125,000 Americans of all ages have been killed on the country's roads during that time, according to the head of a national road safety organization. Read more...
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Drowsy Driving Intiatives To Be Launched By The National Road Safety Foundation In Delaware.
National Road Safety Foundation to Speak to the Delaware Safety Council. New York, NY; December 2005 – With the holiday season upon us, and more drivers taking to the roads, The National Road Safety Foundation is partnering with the Delaware Safety Council to educate the public to the dangers of driving when sleep deprived. Read More...
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Fraydun Manocherian Honored By National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) With Public Service Award.
NHTSA Administrator Dr. Jeffrey Runge, honors New Yorker’s 40 Year Commitment to Road Safety and Education.
New York, NY; August 2005 – Fraydun Manocherian, founder of The National Road Safety Foundation, was honored by Dr. Jeffrey Runge, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, with a Public Service Award for over forty years of dedication to educate the public about the importance of road safety. Read more...
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