By PAM GEORGE, News Journal
On Feb. 20, 2004, two Salesianum School students were killed in a car crash. The tragedy hit home for the Booker family. “I knew one student very well,” said Pete Booker, president of Delmarva Broadcasting Co. “He and my son were in school together from fourth grade on.” The Sallies students were two of six students who died in automobile accidents that month alone. Twenty-three died that year in Delaware, Booker said. One young woman was a friend of a DBC sales manager’s daughter. “It was unnecessary and avoidable,” Booker said. “We decided we needed to do something.” With guidance from school educators, policy makers and others, Delmarva Broadcasting in 2005 launched SmartDrive, a free online course for students that stresses good driving decisions
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