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HOW CAN we improve upor
young driver accident rates? ©
Could mandatory driver edu-

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cation bea possible solution’? “

-_Asa young driver, I think that >

“many of my friends ‘who drive or
are learning to drive are possibly .

' missing some of the simplest funda-

mentals about safe driving that may * :

. pay off somewhere down the road..
“Im not trying to say that | am
the world’s greatest driver —{ still
have a lot to learn. But I was fortu-
nate enough io take driver educa- :.
-tion, and the things that I have
“Jeamed may save my life.-This
‘knowledge has already paid off in,
* some sticky. situations that I have.
had to steer through.
: When I quiz some of my friends

who have not taken driver educa-.
n, which’ deals with proper dri-..
“ving technique and attitude, they:
me_up'with vagile answers and a |
ack ‘of knowledge about 1 mianeuve;
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conditions. A few hours i ina driver’
education class, leamming how to
react to an unexpected situation,
_may help to save the life of a friend.
As teenagers, we may think that
= we know all that there is to know ”
about driving, and that driver educa-
~ tion is a joke. Believe me it isn’t.
2: The question 1 am posing is this:
Should government require manda-

‘tory driver education for those peo-

._.ple acquiring learner's permits:and..
should government also require a ~
certain number of i in-car driving
lessons? |: ::

I say yes to both, I believe that:
‘both steps should be carried out
before, a road test is taken by an
‘driver, I also think that as an ince
tive to teens to take driver education
training there should be a, reduced
insurance fee for: graduates of the:
program. If this mandatory system
was placed in th: local schools for
students, I feel that we could defi-
_nitely reduce the number.of acci-
“dents and deaths caused by negli-
“gent drivers.

:.Lalso believe that the insurance ws

Corporation’ of British Columbia
(ICBC) should work with local

joke

schoo! boards to implement driver ,
education as an X block or elective
course that could be taken before or
after school. It could also be coin-
bined with the Counter Attack pro-
gram that is found in all the local
high schools.

Would it be possible for school
boards to reach an agreement with a

certified focal driving school to pro--

vide their services to make this pro-:
gram work? Good question. |
_ But if this was a'school course

"that was sponsored by ICBC and‘

“local school boards. the financial
aspect could be covered, at least in
part,.so that all students would be
able to take this valuable course.

‘I think that most teens fail to
take driver education because of the
~ expense,

When you think of the benefits
of the program however, you can
take comfort in knowing ‘that every-
one has had the opportunity to be
trained in the same fashion. This

~. would probably iessen the number

of accidents and encourage the low-
ering of those sinister insurance :
rates.: ey 8 a ote
is each teen's ink fividual

‘en responsibility to drive responsibly.

. However, we must get ICBC and
the school boards to get a program
into our schools so that when we’

put that plastic licence into’ our wale i

let for the very. first time, we aie)
really ready to face the wide open.
toad ahead...

As my driving instnictor would |
say, “Enough left turns, remember
to keep your hands at 10 and 3,
check your mirrors, watch for
everyone else, AND GOOD *
LUCK" :

. Craig McAllis ster is a Grade 12
Sutherland stident enrolled in Video

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