Empowering Youth to Promote Safe Driving

Missouri’s TRACTION Program

While most people wish to encourage good behavior or actions, change or improvement often comes as a reaction to a tragedy. For Chief John Hofer and the Harrisonville, Missouri, community, one such tragedy occurred on August 23, 2016—Corey Turner, four days into his high school career, was walking home from high school on the sidewalk when he was tragically struck by another student’s vehicle.