A community meeting on teenage driving’focused on what parents need to know and what they can do’will be held in Palisades Charter High School’s Mercer Hall at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29. Before spring break, two PaliHi student assemblies were held to address the three student deaths that have resulted from traffic accidents during the past two years (Dillon Henry, Travis DeZarn and Nick Rosser). Monica Iannessa, the school’s director of student services and attendance, explained that students spoke openly about racing, drinking and driving, and being a passenger in a car with someone who had been drinking. ‘We wanted a night with the community to share what we learned from those students,’ Iannessa said. ‘Nick’s dad spoke at the first assembly and it was poignant. This meeting will be a discussion of how the community can work together.’ Iannessa and UCLA student Eric Bollens, who was a good friend of Rosser and is co-chair of the Safe Westside youth and education groups, will both speak. They will be joined by an LAPD West Traffic Division patrol officer, a Senior Lead Officer from West L.A., criminal defense attorney Steven Cron and Jim Snelling of Advanced Driving Dynamics in Anaheim. Public- and private-school parents are invited to attend, and light refreshments will be served.
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