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Leading Teen Defensive Driving Program To Host Important Driver Safety Event

ENGLISHTOWN, NJ, JANUARY 21, 2014 - On Sunday, February 16th, Drive Safer, the leading provider and advocate of driving safety for teens and adults, will host a training program at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ, offering drivers of all ages an intensive, hands-on course in car control and defensive driving as well as the opportunity to gain critical confidence behind the wheel.

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 education 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 accidents.

“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 Friedman. “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.”

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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.

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.

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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 visit www.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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