Show KNOW YOUR SCHOOLS Driver Education And Training By Rowan C. Stutz An important bit of which will receive the attention of the 1957 Utah State Legislature is a proposal to add 00 to the automobile license plate fees to finance a program of driver education in the high schools of A number of interested groups in Utah have worked together to arrive at some way to finance driver education in our high It is estimated it will cost of a million dollars The 00 fee was favored by a state-wide survey recently Driver Education and Training is a program for the professional training of young automobile under standards adopted by the State Board of Education A standard course consists of a minimum of thirty hours classroom instruction on traffic hazards of responsibility of the mechanism of the and a minimum of six hours practice driving in a dual-control car plus additional time in the car as an observer This instruction must be given by a trained teacher proper- j ly licensed by the State Board of Education Driver Education and Training I has been caned on for over fifteen have been made of its The re-I suits of these studies show a re- of 50 per cent in traffic i violations and traffic accidents for i the professionally trained This being true the savings in property damage alone would probably pay for the It is estimated that the annual pro-erty loss due to car accidents in Utah is One-third of this is attributed to young drivers under In addition the death toll is over per Over persons injured each The number of accidents is not with standing better engineered j wider and better roads and and belter traffic Mere in Duchesne County we have about young people who become 16 years of age each All of these could be given standard courses in Driver and training with a full-time instructor at Union High serve Uintah District students and a full-ime travelling instructor for Duchesne and Tabiona High Schools |