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"Drivers Skills for Life" Program Visits Schools Statewide
(IRN)-A program that has helped reduce car wreck fatalities among teenagers is getting a boost.

The program is called Driving Skills for Life, which has been held in big parking lots in Chicago, Springfield and Collinsville to teach drivers ages 15-19 how to really drive safely.

Thanks to an extra $1 million from Ford, this program will now come to schools. "We have a transporter with four vehicles on it, instructors that will show up, and we will actually go to schools, specifically on their property," says Driving Skills for Life director Jim Graham.

House calls to Illinois schools probably will not occur for another year or two, while the big parking lot events continue, with one scheduled for April.

Students are taught things that many drivers learn only through experience, such as vehicle spacing, handling a skid and how not to hit a tree.

Graham says this program and others associated with it have helped cut teenage highways deaths in Illinois in half over the last five years.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
02 08 11 by Newsroom
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