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Show DRIVER EDUCATION MORE AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS INVOLVING DEATH AND INJURY ARE CAUSED BY YOUNG PEOPLE IN 16-21 AGE GROUP THAN ANY OTHER. Sixteen to, 21 is the dangerous age for drivers. Actual case histories disclose that drivers in this age group are responsible for more motor vehicle accidents involving deaths and human injuries than any other age group. Although the statement is shocking to many who hear it for the first time, traffic officials find in it an opportunity to upgrade the nation's driving. They say that if parents and teachers would insist that every high school student should take a course in driver education, educa-tion, the problem of teen-age auto accidents would soon be well on the way toward permanent solution. And further, that driving driv-ing habits acquired during these years will remain with them always. 1,000,000 New Teen-Age' Drivers Each Year. It is recorded that one million mil-lion new teen-age drivers take to the highways every year and thus constantly increase an already al-ready great hazard. Obviously, it would not be many years un til virtually every driver on the road would use the highways with the proper attitudes toward to-ward fellow motorists and the rules of safety. Studies made in various parts of the country where driver education ed-ucation has been a part of the school program for several years or more show conclusively that the trained student is involved in-volved in many less accidents than the untrained driver of the same age bracket. 78 Favor High School Driving Courses A recent nationwide public opinion survey made for the National Committee for Traffic Safety showed that 78 per cent of the people think high schools should give courses in the principles prin-ciples -of good driving. In addition, ad-dition, 60 per cent of the people believe students in high schools should be given lessons in ac-' ac-' tually driving a car. In Utah several schools have already instituted driver education educa-tion classes, and increasing numbers of students are learning learn-ing to drive under proper supervision, super-vision, using scientifically tested methods and facts. Mr. E. Allen Bateman, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, In-struction, has. stated that in his opinion safety on the highway is dependent to a large extent upon the proper functioning of driver education classes in Utah schools. |