He also worked with the Centers for Disease Control and helped the State of California develop a plan for trauma systems and injury prevention. Since 1988, Martinez has been a Super Bowl medical consultant to the National Football League, focusing on emergency services, spectator care and injury prevention. Nationally, automobile crashes are the number one killer of teens. In South Carolina, the 1998 teen crash fatality rate was 34 per cent higher than the national average, according to the S.C. Department of Public Safety. Designed to be a national model.
Cruisers enhances teen's abilities to make sound, safe driving decisions.
The program includes a yearlong high school curriculum that focuses on driver attitudes, knowledge, and decisions by teaching life skills. Workshops on the Cruisers program will be presented at the NSSP conference.