| Show TEACH THEM HOW the most dangerous group of dri verp vers according to statistics is the group which ought to bg be the safest the so called teenage teen age class when a person of eighteen or younger has an accident i it t is almost always a serious one it is ig 42 per cent more likely to be fatal than if an older driver were involved in the opinion of authorities the chief difficulty is that young people who drive cars lack both training and judgment they have had bad no formal training behind the wheel usually I 1 they learn earn to drive by watch ing older persons or a young corn com panion in this bis way they learn bd bai practices along with the rood fc ones onea anil and being young they are opt rpt to exaggerate at the be bad and minimize e the ko god d As one bail bad apple contaminates a barrel one poor driver c can n create dozens of worse ones if he attempts the dolc of a teacher the high hig h acl boli of the nation are recognizing a responsibility lity for these facts Ac corlin to the safety education division of the national burcal of casualty end nd surety underwriters sorn som live thousand cusand th high schoos schools in more than half the states slates are arc now giving instruction truc tion in the principles prini prin Liples of traffic safety some schools schoola are aie actually teaching their students how to drive by giving real road training in real ial jcarl cars three states california in anil I 1 iana and north carolina have made ma de such instruction alsy ul sy Y while state departments of education in 28 states have issued model courses couts of study in traffic safet 7 the Sullie subject ct of good driving has become the fastest growing movement move en I 1 in the bistor history Y of american americ an I 1 aduca tion ion already there are significant re in rhode island more than a thousand high school boys and g girls eirls were taught to drive in a course sponsored by the motor vehicle dopart department part ment of that state their driving records were kept in a special file fer a period of three years in all that time not one of the youngsters was involved in a reportable accident and not one was convicted of a traffic violation outstanding educators lica tors say there is no greater function of education than teaching children how to do better the thing they may expect to do in life certainly teaching thorn them how to drive motor cars so as not to kill themselves or others fits neatly into that definition |
