Distracted Driving Initiative

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A Travelers red umbrella centers on the screen.

(SPEECH) [GREG]

Our son Phillip was um, a very driven athlete. There wasn't a day, it didn’t matter what the weather was that he didn’t get out there and run.

[AMY]

Phillip made everyone feel like they were his best friend.

[GREG]

Even the mailman liked Phillip because he’d see him, they shared the same route every day, and Phillip would smile and wave at him.

[AMY]

One day Phillip said, “Get your tickets to Rio because I’m going to be there”. So I’m like, Wow ok ya know?

[GREG]

He was just that way about everything. He always wanted to be the best. He was on his daily run…

[AMY]

And a woman crossed over the centerline of the road and struck him from behind. That was horrible. She got a call to her cell phone at the time of the crash. It was distracted driving. Phillip had his whole life ahead of him. And the worst part of all this is that we’ll never know what he would have accomplished, what he would have done, and where he would be.

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In Phillip’s honor, we imagined his unfinished story. [BUZZING CELL PHONE]

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I’ve got the whole world at my fingertips. I feel like flying, I feel infinite. I know that we’re the kind to think along to other lines but we’’ feel be fine. Come along now, the sky is endless now. We are limitless, We are limitless, now. Come along now, the sky is endless now. We are limitless, We are limitless, now. The sky is calling, calling out to me. Some new beginnings with

endless possibilities. Are you with me? Can you hear me? When I sing out. The sky is endless now. We are limitless, we are limitless, now. Come along now, the sky is endless now. We are limitless, we are limitless.

[THE CROWD CHEERS]

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Distracted driving takes the lives of 9 people each day.

Leaving their stories unfinished.

Phillip LaVallee 1993 - 2013

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I’ve got the whole world at my fingertips. I feel like flying, I feel infinite. I know that we’re the kind to think along to other lines but we’’ feel be fine.

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Let’s end distracted driving. (DESCRIPTION)

Travelers Every Second Matters initiative logo. Travelers.com/distracteddriving

[MUSIC PLAYING] (DESCRIPTION) A Travelers red umbrella centers on the screen.

(DESCRIPTION) Emily Stein Howard’s Daughter

(SPEECH) [EMILY] My dad, Howard, was a self-taught carpenter. But when he walked into this studio, this workshop, he became an artist. Every morning, from as young as I can remember, he would be in the shop building pieces of furniture, creating things. He really had a vision.

In the middle of the night, we got a phone call. My dad was driving home from work, and he pulled over on the side of the road to secure a tarp on his truck. And a distracted driver who was programming her GPS swerved out of her lane and hit him.

It was just devastating. Everything in my body just said this was so preventable. I was pregnant with Evie, the first grandchild that my dad never got to meet.

She loves to draw. And every day I think about my dad and how I imagine he would bring her into his workshop and invite her to work on a project with him.

I think he would have loved to do that.

(DESCRIPTION) [ON SCREEN TEXT] In Howard’s honor, we imagined his unfinished story.

(DESCRIPTION) [BUZZING CELL PHONE] A cell phone’s GPS buzzes and begins to recalculate. Driver reaches down and suddenly swerves away from the truck, just missing hitting it.

[ANIMATED SCENE] Man in workshop, sanding and looking into the yard with the swing he made for his

granddaughter. Howard walks out into the yard holding his granddaughter and puts her in the swing.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Let’s pass the time, me and you, you and me. Let’s pass the time just you and me. There’s never ever been two friends quite like we. Let’s pass the time, just you and me. We’ll go where the wind will take us. See what we can see. Let’s have adventures, you and me. You’re my best friend, and I’m yours too. Through thick and thin, whether it’s gray skies or blue. We’ve got a love, and it’s never going to end. You’re my best friend. Let’s be together me and you, you and me. Let’s be together, you and me. There’s no other place I know, that I would rather be. Let’s be together you and me. There’s no other place I know, that I would rather be. Let’s be together you and me. You’re my best friend.

(DESCRIPTION) [ANIMATED SCENE] Howard and his granddaughter in his workshop building together.

[ON SCREEN TEXT] Distracted driving takes the lives of 9 people each day. Leaving their stories unfinished. Howard Stein 1949 - 2011

(DESCRIPTION) Text, Let’s end distracted driving. Travelers Every Second Matters initiative logo. Travelers.com/distracteddriving