Put your phone away.
Slow down.
Wear your seat belt.
Don’t get in a car with someone who has been drinking.
Most teenagers know the rules.
Knowing the rules isn’t always the problem. Remembering them when the moment comes can be.
Brian and Esther LaBovick understand that tension from both sides.
As personal injury attorneys and founders of LaBovick Law Group, they have spent decades representing people and families after serious crashes, helping them navigate injuries, medical care, insurance issues and the legal process that follows.
But as parents of three children, they have also sat in the passenger seat teaching their own kids to drive, handed over the keys and had the same conversations parents everywhere have:
Be careful. Make good decisions. Call me if you need me. And please come home safe.
Those two experiences—as attorneys who have seen what happens after a devastating crash and as parents who wanted to protect their own children before one—were part of the reason they created Safety 4 Life.
The idea was to take lessons they had learned through their work at LaBovick Law Group and bring them to young drivers while there was still time to make a different choice.
DISTRACTED DRIVING & CONSEQUENCES
A text can feel like a small distraction. Brian and Esther LaBovick have seen as attorneys how quickly a decision like that can change a family—and understand as parents why simply telling a teen “don’t do it” may not always be enough.
Safety 4 Life’s crash reenactments are designed to make those consequences real before teens experience them for themselves.
When Safety Becomes Real
One of the ways LaBovick Law Group brings that prevention message into the community is through Safety 4 Life’s live crash reenactments.
In these controlled educational simulations, students see what happens in the minutes following a serious collision. First responders arrive, Fire Rescue assesses injuries and law enforcement responds.
Students begin to see that the consequences extend far beyond a damaged vehicle.
The purpose isn’t to frighten them. It’s to make something they’ve heard about many times feel real enough to remember.
The reenactments are part of a broader educational effort supported by LaBovick Law Group that includes school assemblies, safety fairs, Parent Nights and student leadership programs.
In 2025 alone, Safety 4 Life reported reaching more than 9,000 students through crash reenactments and school-based programs.
LaBovick Attorneys Usually Meet Families Afterward
There is another reason this work is so closely connected to LaBovick Law Group.
Personal injury attorneys usually enter a family’s story after something has already happened.
Kristian Bie is the Personal Injury Director at LaBovick Law Group, where he leads the firm’s personal injury practice and works with cases involving serious injuries and wrongful deaths.
His team helps clients navigate what comes after a serious accident—from injuries and medical treatment to dealing with insurance companies and the legal process.
That means Kristian normally meets families at one of the most difficult points in their lives.
A crash reenactment gives him and the LaBovick team a very different opportunity: to reach young people before the tragedy instead of meeting their families afterward.
KRISTIAN BIE, PERSONAL INJURY DIRECTOR AT LABOVICK LAW GROUP
Kristian Bie explains why his experience handling wrongful death cases makes prevention so meaningful, and why showing young drivers the consequences of a serious crash before one happens can make a difference.
Students who have participated in Safety 4 Life programs have described the experience as:
“Really informative and eye opening.”
Another student said:
“It showed that any small moment can lead to someone losing their life.”
For the LaBovick team, that is what makes this work valuable. Instead of only helping families deal with the consequences after a serious crash, the firm has an opportunity to use what its attorneys have learned to reach young drivers earlier.
Bring the Conversation Home
Parents can use the same idea.
Instead of only saying don’t text and drive, ask:
What would you do if your friend driving picked up their phone?
Instead of don’t get into a car with someone who has been drinking, ask:
How would you get out of that situation without worrying about what your friends think?
And perhaps the most important message:
If you ever feel unsafe, call me. We’ll figure everything else out later.
That gives your teenager more than another rule. It gives them a plan they can fall back on when they have to make a decision without you there.
Why LaBovick Law Group Invests in Prevention
For Brian and Esther, Safety 4 Life is connected directly to the work LaBovick Law Group does every day.
As personal injury attorneys, they have seen how a serious crash can affect far more than the person who was injured. Families can suddenly find themselves dealing with medical treatment, insurance companies, lost time from work and legal questions they never expected to face.
As parents of three, Brian and Esther also understand the other side of that experience: watching your child drive away and hoping they make the right decisions when you’re no longer in the passenger seat.
That combination is why LaBovick Law Group invests in prevention through Safety 4 Life.
Brian, Esther and the LaBovick personal injury team also know that even when families do everything they can to stay safe, accidents still happen.
When they do, LaBovick Law Group helps injured people understand their rights, navigate insurance and legal issues, and fight for them through the process that follows.
And that same experience is what motivates the firm to invest in prevention before an accident ever happens.
That’s the connection between the legal work LaBovick does every day and the community work it supports:
Preventing and Fighting for You.
No parent can sit beside their teenager forever. But we can give them perspective, a plan and a better understanding of what can happen when a decision behind the wheel goes wrong.
Because every teen deserves to come home safe.
