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Show DDC Course Teaches Pro Driving Skills What's the difference between an average driver and a professional profes-sional driver? A one-word answer to that question might be, skill. The professional driver handles his vehicle with a higher level of driving skill, and that skill, according ac-cording to the Utah Safety Council, shows up in terms of accident statistics. For 1973, the council reported passenger cars made up 78.5 percent of all vehicle vehi-cle registrations and were involved in-volved in 82.8 percent of all accidents. By comparison, trucks made up 17.7 percent of all vehicle registrations and were involved in 13.2 percent of all accidents. The professional driver owes much of his skill to experience, but his expertise also is a product of training. While the average driver may never accumulate the millions of miles of driving experience that the professional driver has, he can learn the same driving techniques professional drivers use by taking the National Safety Safe-ty Council's Defensive Driving Course being taught by the Utah Safety Council. According to Bob Ingersoll, managing director, Utah Safety Council, the Defensive Driving Course is an eight-hour classroom class-room course designed to teach the motorist to avoid accidents in spite of the incorrect actions of other drivers and in spite of adverse driving conditions. In-gprsoll In-gprsoll said the course is based on professional truck and bus driver training programs, and he maintains that no matter how experienced a driver is when he comes into the course, he will have learned something new by the time he graduates. "For example," Ingersoll said, "that most drivers don't realize that a good part of the distance it takes to stop a car is reaction distance, the distance the car travels between the time the driver sees a hazard and can get his foot to the brake. Average Aver-age reaction time is three-quarters three-quarters of a second. That Freezer Beef Whole or Half Cut, Wrapped and Quick Frozen 7 Bone Pot Roast lb. 79 Round Bone Pot Roast lb. 98 Center Cut Pork Chops lb, 98 Country Style Spare Ribs lb. 89 Pork Loin Roast lb. 89 Lean Ground Beef lb. 69 Sliced Bologna lb. 69 Jim and Lynn's Meats American Fork Prices Effective Thurs. Thru Wed. doesn't sound like much, but at 30 miles per hour, a car will travel 33 feet in three quarters of a second. At 40 miles per hour, reaction time adds up to 44 feet, and at 55 miles per hour, reaction time eats up sixty feet of pavement before the driver can even get his foot to the brake." The concept of reaction time has several implications for the student of defensive driving, according ac-cording to Ingersoll. First, it exposes the faulty reasoning of the tailgating driver who thinks he can stop as fast as the car ahead of him. By the time the tailgater sees the brake lights flash on the car ahead of him, his reaction time is getting to his own brake pedal means his stopping distance will be much longer than the stopping stop-ping distance of the car he is following. Conversely, Ingersoll said a driver who slow-pokes down the highway collecting a line of tail-gaters tail-gaters behind him can't make a sudden stop and also expect the following motorists to stop in time to keep from running into his trunk. According to Ingersoll, reaction reac-tion distance also plays a role at blind intersections where, by the time a driver sees cross traffic coming toward him, even panic braking may be insufficient insuffi-cient to prevent a collision. Ingersoll said insurance companies com-panies have recognized the value of defensive driving in preventing accidents and, as a result, 15 insurance companies now offer 10 percent discounts on auto premiums to drivers who have completed the Defensive Defen-sive Driving Course. He also said one car rental company gives course graduates 10 percent per-cent discounts on rental fees. Utah Drivers who are inter- AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1975 TRACTOR CLIMC The Timpanogos Chapter of Young Farmers is sponsoring a Tractor Clinic in cooperation with the Agricultural Department Depart-ment at Lehi High School and the Utah State University. The clinic will be held February Feb-ruary 13, from 10:1X1 a m to 5:00 p.m. and February 14 from 9. OH a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Lehi High School. Dr. Von H Jarrett, head of Agricultural Mechanization Mechaniza-tion at Utah State University, will conduct the clinic. All farmers in North Utah County are invited to attend the lectures and to bring their tractors trac-tors for testing. The University charges $5.1X1 for each tractor tested with the dynamometer. The lectures are free. For more information please contact Byron Memmott. l.ehi High School, agriculture teacher, Merrill Fox, Lehi Chapter President or Francis N. Mortenson, American Fork, Young Farmer Adviser. People may forget how fast you did a job, but they will remember how well you did it. Leadership, at its highest, consists of getting people to work for you when they are under no obligation to do so. ested in taking the Defensive Driving Course can contact the Utah Safety Council at 328-5&51 for registration information and class schedules. According to Ingersoll, classes have been scheduled at times that will be convenient for most Utah Citizens. Citi-zens. 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