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Leading Teen Defensive Driving Program To Host Important Driver Safety Event

LEADING TEEN DEFENSIVE DRIVING PROGRAM TO HOST IMPORTANT DRIVER SAFETY EVENT

 HIGH PERFORMANCE DRIVING INSTRUCTORS TEACH COMMUNITY MEMBERS HOW TO SAFELY CONTROL THEIR CARS

On Sunday, March 9th, Drive 

Safer, the leading provider and advocate of driving safety for teens and adults, will host an exciting car control clinic at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, offering drivers of all ages an intensive, a hands-on course in car control and defensive driving as well as the opportunity to gain critical confidence behind the wheel.

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The one-day event, which combines hands-on, behind-the-wheel training with classroom instruction in vehicle dynamics and car control, goes beyond traditional driver’s education, enabling participants to experience a range of real-life situations they’ll inevitably face out on the road, along with the why and how to handle them in the future. 

Whereas most driver’s ed courses only teach the rules of the road and basics of operating a motor vehicle, Drive Safer gives teens the skills needed to properly control a car in the face of the real world challenges that are most responsible for car crashes.

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“Teens simply don't have the skills and the tools they need to survive on the road when they leave their driver's ed program or their six-hour driving course,” says Jason Friedman, CEO of Drive Safer. “When they're going 60 miles per hour down a highway and hit some black ice or a pothole or someone swerves into their lane, they just don't know how to handle that. We want them to have that 'Oh, my God' moment on our closed-course with an experienced instructor sitting next to them – able to show them how to handle it and explain why it happened in the first place, so it doesn’t happen to them again.”

Along with teaching proper driving techniques, Drive Safer courses also offer insight and driving tips from certified high performance driving instructors. These classes not only make the road safe for the participant, but also for those around them, inside and outside of their vehicle. Additionally, all students that successfully complete a Drive Safer course are eligible for insurance discounts and may be eligible to remove two points off their driver’s license.

“Motor vehicle accidents are the number one killer of teens in the US, and this has to stop,” says Jason Friedman, CEO of Drive Safer.  “Many parents don’t have access to the critically important information that they need to protect and teach their teens how to safely operate and control their car, nor do they have the training in how to effectively teach it.”

For teens and new drivers, especially, an understanding of how to control their car, why it does what it does, and the physics behind it, is essential to knowing how to properly “tell” your car what to do. The majority of driver training falls on teens’ parents – but even veteran drivers let bad habits creep into their daily driving. By hosting events across New Jersey, Drive Safer aims to instill new drivers with the skills needed to survive on the road – not only until they get their licenses, but afterwards as well.

About Drive Safer

Drive Safer provides the premier car control and defensive driving courses in the US, preparing students to control their vehicles in the face of real-world distractions and dangers that take thousands of lives annually. Drive Safer’s certified high performance driving instructors provide hands-on training ensuring that students know how to handle and avoid hazardous behind the wheel situations. Drive Safer also partners with high schools to provide in-classroom workshops and presentations and has a fundraising program donating a percentage of registration fees back to partner schools.

For more information on Drive Safer, including courses, dates, locations and fundraising programs, please visitwww.drivesafer.com.

Contact: 

Jason Friedman

Drive Safer, LLC
60 Whitney Road | Suite 13
Mahwah, New Jersey 07430
201.485.7792 
jason@drivesafer.com

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